Biker 1: Hurry up man! The cops are gonna be here soon!
Biker 2: AH FUCK! My brake line is cut, and my gears are jammed!
Biker 1: You better be flintstoning it!
Youโre a web coder for a bank whose promotion this month is a free toaster to everyone who deposits $10,000 to open a new account. The bank realizes that toaster manufacture and delivery is not their core competency, so they outsouce the task the lowest-bidding toaster fufillment processing agency. Your job is to write the code to get toasters to web customers. You have two options:
1) Spend painful hours attempting to reconcile the inconsistencies between the toaster pimpโs documentation and their Java-powered full-stack WSDL automated toaster delivery processing gateway until XML angle brackets gouge your eyes out.
2) Just flintstone it.
Because youโre smart enough to always, always, always be loved by the administrative assistants (itโs totally worth spending a few hours of playing โwhy canโt XP see the laser printerโ) you know that Donald the junior assistant is the one giving toasters to customers who walk in off the street with briefcases full of money. You strike a deal with Donald: if heโll send out a few toasters for you, youโll drop by for dinner with your famous key lime pie and set up that wifi router thatโs been sitting in its box for the last three weeks.
You write a ten-line shell script to mail Donald with the names and addresses of new, untoastered customers and put it on a cron job to fire off every few hours. Then you put โTurn off toaster promotionโ on your calendar for the last day of the month and tell your boss youโre implemented near-real-time toaster deployment and get back to working on instrusion detection.
flintstoning: itโs the practice of substituting a little human work for functionality until thereโs enough demand for the feature that itโs worth the coder's time to implement.
I was too drunk to drive my car so I ended up sticking my feet out of the door and flintstoning it home. You can't get a DUI if the keys aren't in the ignition.
1. A Hanna Barbera cartoon that ran from 1960 to 1966 that portrays life during the stone age.
2. Vitamins that are tasty and designed for children, but many adults take them too. They are chewable and have mixed reviews, some love them and some hate them.
-I was watching Flintstones reruns all day long.
-I'm a vegetarian so I take filntones vitamins every morning. Yum! The orange ones are the best!