technical answers for non technical people
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- emecks
You know how it is, you're asked by a non technical manager WHY something happened / didn't happen. They want a technical answer so they can quote you at other people to sound knowledgeable...
Gimme some phrases to chuck into my answers to show up their plagiarism and evident lack of technical knowledge :)
- detritus0
"The haemocomplex has become decoupled from the paratransient layout schema".
- emecks0
alright I'll give some direction to this....
in this instance the question was why changes to nameservers take up to 24 hours to propagate....
- Randd0
"magic"
- ian0
We needed to take it off-line, reverse the polarity and we could not even contemplate crossing the streams to reconfigure it to a much more efficient blast.
- 4040
Because Al Gore was on a lunch break and we needed him to flip the switch.
- roundabout0
I remember ask a print company for .pref setting so I can work in the correct colour space, They pass me to the company manager, who then inform me that this information would breach the companies corporate contract, and use information policy. I just put down the phone.
- roundabout0
To get a screen grab of a web page for print, it best if you scan your computer monitor on a flatbed scanner, at 700-dpi.
- ian0
We had to await the delivery of the proper sized dongle. I asked them to give me a dingle when it arrived.
- 4040
Try this.
You (insert name here) have many questions, and although the process has altered your consciousness, you remain irrevocably human. Ergo, some of my answers you will understand, and some of them you will not. Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also irrelevant.
Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of the matrix. You are the eventuality of an anomaly, which despite my sincerest efforts I have been unable to eliminate from what is otherwise a harmony of mathematical precision. While it remains a burden to sedulously avoid it, it is not unexpected, and thus not beyond a measure of control. Which has led you, inexorably, here.
- spendogg0
The Flux-Capaciter was down due to a Blinker Fuid change.
- maximillion_0
the REST API returned deserialsed data sets although a serialised request was sent.
- maximillion_0
MVC was used as a basis for the app(website) however the assets supplied included UI elements with interaction.
depends how much you want him to fuck up really
- emecks0
Thanks all, I went for this:
"The DNS templates are rebooting and propagating via the nameservers across the internet name spaces, httd services should remain unaffected on the subdomains whilst the directories of the main domain may experience DNS shuffle due to name directory hopping. It will sort itself out overnight, don't worry about it."
- ha ha you hate him dont youmaximillion_
- her. hate is a strong word, but fed up with being an unquoted source basically. this will cure it.emecks
- i mean hate in the nicest possible sensemaximillion_
- and I mean cured in the most final possible sense ;)emecks
- ian0
It had to be taken off-line jim, the engine, she couldne take any more!
- Corvo0
"We've just updated the latest Apache modules in the Windows ISS server and we're rebooting everything right now."
- MSTRPLN0
"we ran out of uranium"