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If you work with engineers

If you work with Engineers, and these days who doesn't? then you ought to read The Fishbowl: Understanding Engineers: Feasibility

An ex-Google non-engineer described 'non-trivial' thus in the Xooglers blog:

It means impossible. Since no engineer is going to admit something is impossible, they use this word instead.

Posted at August 09, 2007 01:46 PM


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