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firefighting: n. 1. What sysadmins have to do to correct sudden operational problems.
An opposite of hacking. “Been hacking your new newsreader?”
“No, a power glitch hosed the network and I spent the whole afternoon
fighting fires.” 2. The act of throwing lots of manpower and late nights at a
project, esp. to get it out before deadline. See also
gang bang, Mongolian Hordes technique;
however, the term firefighting
connotes that the effort is going into chasing bugs rather than adding
features.
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