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You keep using that word.

bagheadincCited 9× on HN, 2011–2026
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A brief clip of Inigo Montoya from The Princess Bride saying 'You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.'

Used purely as a joke reply when someone misuses a term.

9 comments from Hacker News

@Joel_Mckay2026-04 · in “30 Years of HPC: many hardware advances, little adoption of new languages”

> realtime computing Even with HDL defined accelerators, that statement may not mean what people assume. =3 link link link ▶ this video

@Joel_Mckay2025-12 · in “Adafruit: Arduino’s Rules Are ‘Incompatible With Open Source’”

The Arduino 1kHz busy-loop and ISR designs is not real-time or necessarily guaranteed latency. RTLinux or FreeRTOS are guaranteed-latency OS, that can reduce timing jitter. "Real-time" is another term hijacked by people that think it means the same thing. It was a disservice to students, but thankfully FPGA or Raspberry Pico io DMA with mcu parallelism can teach people to understand clock domain crossing. Part of the Arduino appeal, was convincing people the mcu and application SoC problem domains were the same. They are not, and never were... Hence the new Arduino board dual chip layout is twice as bad in some ways. Cheers =3 ▶ this video risc v -- a new hope, but 20 years too late stm32 -- a solid competitor to Microchip/AVR, but 14 years too late esp32 -- FreeRTOS with hardware flash paging can pose an issue, but at least it already doesn't need Arduino software lol

@Joel_Mckay2023-11 · in “Brother [printers] have gotten to where they are now, by NOT innovating”

Most models are reliable, compatible with *nix network drivers, and don't pull shenanigans when you need them to work. The only issue I saw is the toner color match on laser models could be a bit better. Still highly recommended for anything except photos. "Innovating" ▶ this video

@ChrisMarshallNY2021-09 · in “What's Wrong with Tech Hiring”

> It's a funny thing being in an industry where people retire not because they can't do the work at a professional level, but because getting a job is such a PITA. I feel that this is a desired result. I am pretty convinced that folks like to have an "ideal culture" at their workplaces. I hear the term "cultural fit" so often, that I guess it means something that I'm missing. ▶ this video

@ChrisMarshallNY2021-08 · in “Software Development Waste”

Well, I'm not sure that I "misunderstand" "MVP," because, after the dust has settled, and the smoke has cleared, a significant percentage of what is out there, and carries the label "MVP," is duct-tape-and-baling-wire-last-checkin-five-seconds-before-ship dross. I know what I consider "MVP" to be, ideally , and that pretty much jives with your description. It's just that I don't think most folks actually do it. It's like "Agile," in that respect. As someone that practices high-Quality development, I am regularly laughed at and told that I'm "wasting my time," doing Quality coding. Words come to mean whatever their most common usage implies, so I think that both of these wonderful words now mean something other than what they used to mean. ▶ this video