And of course, when spelled out, F-U, has a whole different meaning...
On Jan 30, 2009, at 11:27 PM, doug livesey wrote:
And of course the pinnacle of geekdom is to be known as a 'poodle',
or one who is skilled in being skilled; a fu-fu.
Damn', I appear to be posting drunk again ...
2009/1/30 Rick DeNatale <rick.denat...@gmail.com>
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:06 AM, David Chelimsky
<dchelim...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 8:49 AM, James Byrne <li...@ruby-forum.com>
wrote:
> Pardon my ignorance, but exactly what does _fu mean WRT Ruby
plugins,
> gems and such?
>
> I have run across this suffix a number of times in Ruby and Rails,
> always in connection with some add-on or extension. In the original
> context that I encountered '_fu' I inferred that it probably
stood for
> file upload. However, its widespread use in other contexts
evidently
> disproves this interpretation. So, does it have a meaning? Does it
> derive from the foo in foobar? Does it stand for functional
update? Or,
> is it an obscure cultural reference to Ruby's Japanese origins?
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200601/25/eng20060125_238295.html
And of course according to the last meaning of Fu in that article*,
the technical meaning of Fu is
Fu is having the ability to run Windows applications on Linux or
OS X. <G>
* "Fu is having wine"
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