[geeks] Cheap/reliable backup?

Phil Stracchino phils at caerllewys.net
Tue Dec 3 09:33:54 CST 2013


On 12/03/13 10:30, Jonathan Patschke wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Dec 2013, microcode at zoho.com wrote:
> 
>>> The TL;DR:
>>
>> No matter how many times I've seen that I can never remember what it
>> means. I keep thinking BTDT but I know that's not it.
> 
> As a noun (as above), it means "executive summary."
> 
> As a statement by itself, it means:
> 
>     I am terribly sorry to have invited you to waste time in pointing me
>     towards a resource that might allow me to grow my knowledge and skills
>     in a direction that would enable me to solve the problem I initially
>     groused about, and I would be better served paying a consulting to
>     solve the problem for me so that I can instead grouse about how much
>     they charged because I am an ungrateful excuse for a human who does not
>     appreciate the cost of intellectual pursuit.
> 
> That is to say, the literal expansion is "too long; didn't read."

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