flintstoning

Flintstoning means having humans do the work first. Only automate if it's worth automating.

You’re a web coder for a bank whose promotion this month is a free toaster to everyone who deposits $10,000 to open a new account. The bank realizes that toaster manufacture and delivery is not their core competency, so they outsouce the task the lowest-bidding toaster fufillment processing agency. Your job is to write the code to get toasters to web customers. You have two options:

1) Spend painful hours attempting to reconcile the inconsistencies between the toaster pimp’s documentation and their Java-powered full-stack WSDL automated toaster delivery processing gateway until XML angle brackets gouge your eyes out.
2) Just flintstone it.

Because you’re smart enough to always, always, always be loved by the administrative assistants (it’s totally worth spending a few hours of playing “why can’t XP see the laser printer”) you know that Donald the junior assistant is the one giving toasters to customers who walk in off the street with briefcases full of money. You strike a deal with Donald: if he’ll send out a few toasters for you, you’ll drop by for dinner with your famous key lime pie and set up that wifi router that’s been sitting in its box for the last three weeks.

You write a ten-line shell script to mail Donald with the names and addresses of new, untoastered customers and put it on a cron job to fire off every few hours. Then you put “Turn off toaster promotion” on your calendar for the last day of the month and tell your boss you’re implemented near-real-time toaster deployment and get back to working on instrusion detection.

flintstoning: it’s the practice of substituting a little human work for functionality until there’s enough demand for the feature that it’s worth the coder's time to implement.

by Harkins August 29, 2006

FlingSmash

Released on the Nintendo Wii on November 7th, 2010, FlingSmash is an incredible game that everybody should play at some point in their life. FlingSmash features Zip, a spherical yellow character with a red ponytail and four short limbs, controlled by using the Wii Remote to fling him around to collect items/destroy obstacles. Despite what reviews may say about FlingSmash being a "bad" game, it is quite the opposite as FlingSmash is one of if not the greatest games of all time.

I purchased FlingSmash for the Nintendo Wii and I have been enlightened after playing it, I believe many others should be able to experience FlingSMash for themselves.

by Inkie Zach April 20, 2022

Pissing Flintstones

The deep-yellow, almost amber, perhaps even florescent, color of your wee after a night of drinking Red Bull Vodkas (or some other energy drink and Vodka) caused (usually) by the B-vitamins.

Dude, I had way-too many Vodka Red Bulls last night.....I'm pissing flintstones.
Hey, why is the toilet glowing with pee? Sorry, must have been from me pissing flintstones.

by G-Daddy SchmoovG-Daddy Schmooe October 12, 2017

Flinking

Floating and drinking = flinking. Drinking alcoholic beverages while floating in a body of water (usually a pool or the ocean).

We spent most of our time flinking in the adult pool during our vacation in Cabo San Lucas this year.

by JAKSKI January 15, 2016

flinkie

a mixture of Flea (who Evan wants) and a twinkie (what Evan eats).

"The Wooten's diggin' a flinkie right now"

by Dan October 8, 2003

Flinstones

1.) a strange cartoon where its characters move the car with their feet.

John: Hey MAN LETS WATCH flinstones!!
Joe: Wtf? u are 30 and u wanna watch flinstones.I'd rather watch the show of the talking yellow sponge.
Jack: I vote sponge bob!!
Jake: Me too!
Joe: Man i think im on the wrong crowd.

by toddynho ftw July 7, 2005

Flintstoned

The act of crushing up flintstones chewables and snorting them like a drug. Many have died due to this new fad which was originated in Japan.

Tommy was getting flintstoned off his little sister's flinstone vitamins.

by minimike January 26, 2010