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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>YA-</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../Y.html" title="Y"/><link rel="previous" href="../Y.html" title="Y"/><link rel="next" href="YABA.html" title="YABA"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">YA-</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="../Y.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Y</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="YABA.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="YA-"/><dt xmlns="" id="YA-"><b>YA-</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">abbrev.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Yet Another] In hackish acronyms this almost invariably expands to
<a href="Yet-Another.html"><i class="glossterm">Yet Another</i></a>, following the precedent set by Unix
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">yacc</span>(1)</span>
(Yet Another Compiler-Compiler). See <a href="YABA.html"><i class="glossterm">YABA</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="../Y.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../Y.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="YABA.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Y </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> YABA</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>YABA</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../Y.html" title="Y"/><link rel="previous" href="YA-.html" title="YA-"/><link rel="next" href="YAFIYGI.html" title="YAFIYGI"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">YABA</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="YA-.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Y</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="YAFIYGI.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="YABA"/><dt xmlns="" id="YABA"><b>YABA</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/ya´b@/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Cambridge] Yet Another Bloody Acronym. Whenever some program is
being named, someone invariably suggests that it be given a name that is
acronymic. The response from those with a trace of originality is to
remark ironically that the proposed name would then be
&#8216;YABA-compatible&#8217;. Also used in response to questions like
&#8220;<span class="quote">What is WYSIWYG?</span>&#8221; See also <a href="../T/TLA.html"><i class="glossterm">TLA</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="YA-.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../Y.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="YAFIYGI.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">YA- </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> YAFIYGI</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>YAFIYGI</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../Y.html" title="Y"/><link rel="previous" href="YABA.html" title="YABA"/><link rel="next" href="yak-shaving.html" title="yak shaving"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">YAFIYGI</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="YABA.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Y</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="yak-shaving.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="YAFIYGI"/><dt xmlns="" id="YAFIYGI"><b>YAFIYGI</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/yaf´ee·y@·gee/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [coined in response to WYSIWYG] Describes the command-oriented
ed/vi/nroff/TeX style of word processing or other user interface, the
opposite of <a href="../W/WYSIWYG.html"><i class="glossterm">WYSIWYG</i></a>. Stands for &#8220;<span class="quote">You asked
for it, you got it</span>&#8221;, because what you actually asked for is often
not apparent until long after it is too late to do anything about it. Used
to denote perversity (&#8220;<span class="quote">Real Programmers use YAFIYGI
tools...and <span class="emphasis"><em>like</em></span> it!</span>&#8221;) or, less often, a
necessary tradeoff (&#8220;<span class="quote">Only a YAFIYGI tool can have full programmable
flexibility in its interface.</span>&#8221;).</p><p>This precise sense of &#8220;<span class="quote">You asked for it, you got it</span>&#8221;
seems to have first appeared in Ed Post's classic parody <i class="citetitle">Real
Programmers don't use Pascal</i> (see
<a href="../R/Real-Programmer.html"><i class="glossterm">Real Programmer</i></a>s); the acronym is a more recent invention.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="YABA.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../Y.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="yak-shaving.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">YABA </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> yak shaving</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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San Diego Computer Society (predominantly a microcomputer users' group) as
a good-natured punning insult aimed at Unix zealots.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="yak-shaving.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../Y.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="yellow-card.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">yak shaving </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> yellow card</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>YHBT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../Y.html" title="Y"/><link rel="previous" href="Yet-Another.html" title="Yet Another"/><link rel="next" href="YKYBHTLW.html" title="YKYBHTLW"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">YHBT</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Yet-Another.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Y</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="YKYBHTLW.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="YHBT"/><dt xmlns="" id="YHBT"><b>YHBT</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">//</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Usenet: very common] Abbreviation: You Have Been Trolled (see
<a href="../T/troll.html"><i class="glossterm">troll</i></a>, sense 1). Especially used in &#8220;<span class="quote">YHBT.
YHL. HAND.</span>&#8221;, which is widely understood to expand to &#8220;<span class="quote">You
Have Been Trolled. You Have Lost. Have A Nice Day</span>&#8221;. You are quite
likely to see this if you respond incautiously to a flame-provoking post
that was obviously floated as sucker bait. </p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Yet-Another.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../Y.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="YKYBHTLW.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Yet Another </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> YKYBHTLW</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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when...&#8217;, which became established on the Usenet group <tt class="systemitem">alt.folklore.computers</tt> during extended
discussion of the indicated entry in the Jargon File.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="YHBT.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../Y.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="YMMV.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">YHBT </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> YMMV</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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on Usenet.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="YKYBHTLW.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../Y.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="You-are-not-expected-to-understand-this.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">YKYBHTLW </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> You are not expected to understand this</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Yet Another</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../Y.html" title="Y"/><link rel="previous" href="yellow-wire.html" title="yellow wire"/><link rel="next" href="YHBT.html" title="YHBT"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Yet Another</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="yellow-wire.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Y</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="YHBT.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Yet-Another"/><dt xmlns="" id="Yet-Another"><b>Yet Another</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [From Unix's
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">yacc</span>(1)</span>,
&#8216;Yet Another Compiler-Compiler&#8217;, a LALR parser generator]
</p></dd><dd><p> 1. Of your own work: A humorous allusion often used in titles to
acknowledge that the topic is not original, though the content is. As in
&#8216;Yet Another AI Group&#8217; or &#8216;Yet Another Simulated
Annealing Algorithm&#8217;.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. Of others' work: Describes something of which there are already
far too many. See also <a href="YA-.html"><i class="glossterm">YA-</i></a>,
<a href="YABA.html"><i class="glossterm">YABA</i></a>, <a href="YAUN.html"><i class="glossterm">YAUN</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="yellow-wire.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../Y.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="YHBT.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">yellow wire </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> YHBT</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<a href="../M/magic.html"><i class="glossterm">magic</i></a> or too complicated to bother explaining
properly. From an infamous comment in the context-switching code of the V6
Unix kernel. Dennis Ritchie has <a href="http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/odd.html" target="_top"> explained this in
detail</a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="YMMV.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../Y.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="You-know-you-ve-been-hacking-too-long-when.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">YMMV </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> You know you've been hacking too long when</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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themselves. These include the following:</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p>
not only do you check your email more often than your paper mail, but you
remember your <a href="../N/network-address.html"><i class="glossterm">network address</i></a> faster than your
postal one. </p></li><li><p>
your <a href="../S/SO.html"><i class="glossterm">SO</i></a> kisses you on the neck and the first thing
you think is &#8220;<span class="quote">Uh, oh,
<a href="../P/priority-interrupt.html"><i class="glossterm">priority interrupt</i></a>.</span>&#8221; </p></li><li><p>
you go to balance your checkbook and discover that you're doing it in
octal. </p></li><li><p>
your computers have a higher street value than your car.
</p></li><li><p>
in your universe, &#8216;round numbers&#8217; are powers of 2, not 10.
</p></li><li><p>
more than once, you have woken up recalling a dream in some programming
language. </p></li><li><p> you see the word &#8220;<span class="quote">Oxford</span>&#8221; and mentally trip over
the fact that &#8216;r&#8217; is not a hex digit. </p></li><li><p>
you realize you have never seen half of your best friends.
</p></li></ul></div><p>A <a href="http://albrecht.ecn.purdue.edu/~taylor/humor/hack.html" target="_top"> list</a>
of these can be found by searching for this phrase on the web.</p><p>[An early version of this entry said &#8220;<span class="quote">All but one of these have
been reliably reported as hacker traits (some of them quite often). Even
hackers may have trouble spotting the ringer.</span>&#8221; The ringer was
balancing one's checkbook in octal, which I made up out of whole cloth.
Although more respondents picked that one out as fiction than any of the
others, I also received multiple independent reports of its actually
happening, most famously to Grace Hopper while she was working with BINAC
in 1949. &#8212;ESR]</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="You-are-not-expected-to-understand-this.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../Y.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Your-mileage-may-vary.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">You are not expected to understand this </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Your mileage may vary</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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American car manufacturers] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. A ritual warning often found in Unix freeware distributions.
Translates roughly as &#8220;<span class="quote">Hey, I tried to write this portably, but who
<span class="emphasis"><em>knows</em></span> what'll happen on your system?</span>&#8221; </p></dd><dd><p> 2. More generally, a qualifier attached to advice. &#8220;<span class="quote">I find
that sending flowers works well, but your mileage may vary.</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="You-know-you-ve-been-hacking-too-long-when.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../Y.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Yow-.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">You know you've been hacking too long when </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Yow!</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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expression of humorous surprise or emphasis. &#8220;<span class="quote">Yow! Check out what
happens when you twiddle the foo option on this display
hack!</span>&#8221;.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Your-mileage-may-vary.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../Y.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="yoyo-mode.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Your mileage may vary </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> yoyo mode</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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in its tail looks like a little fish swimming down the page. The term is
actually the name of a Chinese dish in which a fish is cooked whole (not
<a href="../P/parse.html"><i class="glossterm">parse</i></a>d) and covered with Yu-Shiang (or Yu-Hsiang, or
in modern Pinyin transliteration yuxiang) sauce. Usage: primarily by
people on the MIT LISP Machine, which could display this character on the
screen. Tends to elicit incredulity from people who hear about it
second-hand.</p><p>Yu Shiang Whole Fish is alive and well in Unicode as U+0263 LATIN
SMALL LETTER GAMMA (as opposed to the actual Greek letter at U+03B3, which
usually has a loopless glyph; the form of U+0263 is consistently
loopy). This symbol is included in Unicode as a Latin letter because it is
used in the International Phonetic Alphabet. In the IPA, gamma represents
a voiced velar fricative, the sound commonly transcribed &#8220;<span class="quote">gh</span>&#8221;
in Arabic or Klingon.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="yoyo-mode.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../Y.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="../Z.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">yoyo mode </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Z</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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Stimpy episode.</i>] Any seemingly pointless activity which is
actually necessary to solve a problem which solves a problem which, several
levels of recursion later, solves the real problem you're working
on.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="YAFIYGI.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../Y.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="YAUN.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">YAFIYGI </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> YAUN</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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connectors) got broken due to some schlemiel pinching them, or to reconnect
cut traces after the FE mistakenly cut one. Compare
<a href="../B/blue-wire.html"><i class="glossterm">blue wire</i></a>, <a href="../P/purple-wire.html"><i class="glossterm">purple wire</i></a>,
<a href="../R/red-wire.html"><i class="glossterm">red wire</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="yellow-card.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../Y.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Yet-Another.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">yellow card </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Yet Another</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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alternates several times between being up and being down. Interestingly
(and perhaps not by coincidence), many hardware vendors give out free yoyos
at Usenix exhibits.</p><p>Sun Microsystems gave out logoized yoyos at SIGPLAN '88. Tourists
staying at one of Atlanta's most respectable hotels were subsequently
treated to the sight of 200 of the country's top computer scientists
testing yo-yo algorithms in the lobby.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Yow-.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../Y.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Yu-Shiang-Whole-Fish.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Yow! </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Yu-Shiang Whole Fish</td></tr></table></div></body></html>