Eva: I'm too close to the door, can you flintstone over please?
Tashina: Sure thing and while I'm flintstoning, I can pick up the pen you dropped
Tashina: Sure thing and while I'm flintstoning, I can pick up the pen you dropped
by ronsonic November 1, 2007
Get the flintstoning mug.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.
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
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Eva: I'm too close to the door, can you flintstone over please?
Tashina: Sure thing and while I'm flintstoning, I can pick up the pen you dropped
Tashina: Sure thing and while I'm flintstoning, I can pick up the pen you dropped
by EvaF October 13, 2007
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Chris: just some whale I flintstoned.
Me: what?
Chris: flintstoning... when you shag someone in a cave!
Chris: just some whale I flintstoned.
Me: what?
Chris: flintstoning... when you shag someone in a cave!
by Ilovefatchicksincavesss November 6, 2011
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(In the first 10 seconds of the Flintstones intro, Fred is busy lifting a rock out of the quarry, but as soon as the whistle blows he's out of the quarry and into the car)
(In the first 10 seconds of the Flintstones intro, Fred is busy lifting a rock out of the quarry, but as soon as the whistle blows he's out of the quarry and into the car)
"Never give him a task that takes more than 15 minutes at 4:45, because he'll be flintstoning on out of here at 5:00."
by Kayurastar January 27, 2017
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Susan- Oh my god are you okay that must've hurt you're poor ass.
Dian- You haven't lived till hes done that to you.
by analboy 99 November 12, 2017
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by ketochlor November 6, 2007
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