The practice of providing advice and helpful suggestions to a novice regarding potentially dangerous activities in the hope that they will heed the advice and not cause hurt or harm to themselves or others.
Practicing harm reduction Keith showed Brittany how to IV drugs. According to him he didn't want the wrong person showing her the wrong way, because he knew she was headstrong.
Reduction of order is a technique in mathematics for solving second-order ordinary differential equations. It is also a technique used in restaurants by mathgeeks who change their order to an amount less than originally requested.
I went to McDonald's and ordered two Big Macs, but I changed my mind and ordered only one. They didn't like my reduction of order.
A term used in software development to describe an unsuccessful refactor project.
Describes the outcome of a change that was intended to improve the underlying software but has actually made it worse.
This word is often used as an antonym for refactor.
The team have just spent 2 weeks on a refactoring project for the Scholarships functionality in AMS and now it no longer works. We must schedule another project to remedy this latest refucktor.
Short-hand for the word floccinaucinihilipilification, meaning the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language).
Precedes or follows either a gratuitously disrespectful or honest remark, originated in New York City. Used in similar fashion to "no offense" or "to be honest," interchangeably.
Ya mans is wild buns, respectfully. Respectfully he's washed.
After school, The Modells on Jamaica Ave was active. Respectfully.