The way that a software application behaves based on assumption that a designer or developer made that was never validated by actual humans that have to use the application.
It's great assumptionality that you only 'need' four items in the recently usedfile list.
Software which performs actions that it assumes is OK with the user. An example of AssumptionWare would be a program that installs into a directory with no option for the user to specify a different one. Another example would be a program that writes log files with no
option to disable.
An assumptioneer is someone who works in a field very similar to that of an engineer but they do not have tons and tons of accurate data available to make decisions so they have to make lots of assumptions, hence this makes them an assumptioneer - doing assumptioneering work.
Project Manager - How is the work progressing on the facility design?
Design Manager - Jon has been struggling with a lack of data but as we all know he is a great assumptioneer
Project Manager - ok as long as we clearly document all our assumptions in a concept document should be fine for now
A phenomenon in film/television series, most notably streaming series, where the main premise is drawn out to such a point that it takes an entire season or more to get the parts of the series the audience is actually interested in seeing.
For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale.
I watched "Smallville" on Netflix the other day. Dude, it was ten seasons of filler before he finally flew! Major Surf Dracula Syndrome!
Finding your way back to the truth by fixing on one verified fact and working out from there, the way you navigate by the North Star when everything around you is spinning.
Rumours were flyingeverywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.
A plate of brown consists of foods that have little to no nutritional value, and are typically deep fried. A true plate of brown will also be accompanied by a dark soda.
When finance content creators rent out fancy cars and flexcash to seem richer than they really are in order to promote and sell their “get rich quick” courses.