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Re: Something For Friday

Subject: Re: Something For Friday
From: "Wade Courtney" <wade -dot- courtney -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 11:03:01 -0700

I thought baked meant something *entirely* different.

On 6/16/06, Ron Hearn <RHearn -at- cucbc -dot- com> wrote:


Does being "baked in" allow for half-baked ideas?


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From: Barry Campbell [mailto:barry -dot- campbell -at- gmail -dot- com]
Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 10:50 AM
To: Ron Hearn
Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: Something For Friday

Ron,

That's some good (and funny) stuff, but I think the etymology of "dial
in" as business jargon has nothing to do with telephony.

One can speak of "dialing in" the sights of a rifle, and it's also a
relevant term in artillery range-finding. "Dialing in" a system means
"calibrating" it, roughly, so "dialing in" a product's features might
refer to zeroing in (pardon the expression) on the feature set.

The business jargon for "including" something these days tends to be
"bake(d) in(to)," as in "these features will be baked into the next
release of the product."

- bc

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