The Devils Dictionary - perhaps
web standards, noun
A large stick or cudgel, used by the slightly more anal-retentive to beat the slightly less anal-retentive.
Just a quote from The Devils Dictionary, courtesy of Tom Coates’ Plasticbag.org. At least it was until the dictionary seemed to vanish – the domain homepage then being replaced with the following:
The difference between
find /local/www -print | grep error_log | xargs rm
and
find /local/www -print | xargs rm
is subtle,
but very, very important.
Another gem from the “oh sh*t” school of Unix administration!
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