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Re:Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more by eastbayjake on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @02:05PM (#23022219)
Isn't a "jetty" a defensive barrier to protect a harbor against storm tides? Dumb move to accidentally invite everyone to a meeting with a codename, but not a dumb codename as you protect a company from a storm.
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Re:Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more by earthtourist on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @02:13PM (#23022333)
IIRC this is why the U.S. military (in certain cases?) uses a pre-generated list of code names. If you let humans do the code names, they'll choose names that leak info.
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Re:Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more by SilasX on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @02:08PM (#23022263)
Not to get too far on this tangent, but, for me, "jetty" doesn't evoke "jettison" but either:

1) Those little docks like in Venice (cf. "Let me off at this jetty" in The Last Crusade).

2) The jetty server library that Jenkins uses which shows up in error messages.

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Re:Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more by hinkley on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @02:16PM (#23022369)
3) the short film that 12 Monkeys was based on
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Re:Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more by aaronbrethorst on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @02:29PM (#23022510)
La Jetée
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Re:Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more by supernova87a on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @02:31PM (#23022524)
3) A plank that pirates walk people off of into the water to be eaten by sharks.
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Re:Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more by sixstringtheory on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @02:37PM (#23022591)
Source? Never heard that, and not seeing it in cursory internet searches. IME it's just called "the plank."
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Re:Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more by tibbydudeza on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @02:08PM (#23022252)
I think it meant Jettison (throw or drop (something) from an aircraft or ship).
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Re:Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more by paulcole on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @02:33PM (#23022547)
I’m not sure where you got that idea from but I assumed it was a typo. The lawyer was trying to type “layoff plan” and autocorrect worked its magic.
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Re:Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more by yaktubi on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @02:12PM (#23022319)
They are referring to the George Jetson maneuverability
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Re:Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more by chrisseaton on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @02:34PM (#23022566)
> but not a dumb codename

The whole point - the only purpose of a codename is that it doesn't give the game away.

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