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Every year, MySQL engineers gather together for the
developers meeting. It's the time of the highest productivity
and fun at the same time. It starts usually by performing an
old play, Guess who I am, featuring 100 employees who
know each other by name but not by face. At every new
entrance, a flurry of introductions is acknowledged and
promptly forgotten, leaving the unfamiliar faces deprived of
the familiar names. So a few minutes later the same people
run around each other again, staring nonchalantly at the name
tags, trying to avoid a gaffe. Despite the fierce fight for a
name, nobody gets hurt, and in the end the leading actors and
support roles go back to the script of exchanging geeky
thoughts in person, as confidently as if they were doing that
through the IRC. During these meetings, the following glossary was developed. Its origins … |
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03
2008
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