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Re:Ask HN: What programming blogs do you read daily? by manveru on Monday October 17, 2011 @12:13PM (#3121065)
Sorry, but neither DDG nor Google know about the term "swegr", what does it stand for?
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Re:Ask HN: What programming blogs do you read daily? by count on Monday October 17, 2011 @12:16PM (#3121076)
Given context, 'software engineering', I would assume. Strange way to write it though...
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Re:Ask HN: What programming blogs do you read daily? by rhubarbquid on Monday October 17, 2011 @01:29PM (#3121446)
At first, I assumed it was some programming language I had never heard of ;-)
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Re:Ask HN: What programming blogs do you read daily? by jwallaceparker on Monday October 17, 2011 @01:37PM (#3121486)
To me a "swegr" sounds like it would mean "an outdoor event on a really hot day where you have to dress in formal attire."

Cause you'd sweat a lot.

It probably stands for software engineering, though.

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Re:Ask HN: What programming blogs do you read daily? by sambeau on Monday October 17, 2011 @02:40PM (#3121798)
In Glasgow, here in Scotland, a "Swedger" is boiled sweet or candy.

As in "gonnae gee-us wan o'yer swedgers, wee man".

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Re:Ask HN: What programming blogs do you read daily? by aangjie on Tuesday October 18, 2011 @03:27AM (#3124259)
//Cause you'd sweat a lot.

And you'd swear a lot.

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Re:Ask HN: What programming blogs do you read daily? by wyclif on Monday October 17, 2011 @12:43PM (#3121236)
Me too. I'd never seen "swegr" before.
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Re:Ask HN: What programming blogs do you read daily? by sparky on Monday October 17, 2011 @12:16PM (#3121081)
SoftWare EnGineeRing.
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Re:Ask HN: What programming blogs do you read daily? by skrebbel on Tuesday October 18, 2011 @02:12AM (#3124083)
Ah. Around here we've always always called that poing.

For "PrOgrammING"

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Re:Ask HN: What programming blogs do you read daily? by Tyrannosaurs on Tuesday October 18, 2011 @05:15AM (#3124501)
Two fantastic ways of saving a few characters at the expense of clarity...
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Re:Ask HN: What programming blogs do you read daily? by atomicdog on Thursday October 27, 2011 @06:31AM (#3162405)
I'd hate to see this guy's variable naming convention :O
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Re:Ask HN: What programming blogs do you read daily? by nait on Wednesday October 19, 2011 @09:55AM (#3130125)
Using random characters you're lucky you didn't use the first, third, fifth and tenth character as a "descriptive" term. ;)

And a bit on topic even though it's not a blog. How about "The Bug of the Month" of the makers of lint? http://www.gimpel.com/html/bugs.htm A bit obscure but definately broadens the pool of error behavior concepts.

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Re:Ask HN: What programming blogs do you read daily? by DallaRosa on Tuesday October 18, 2011 @04:08AM (#3124351)
Yeah, it's software engineering given the context but it also could how the kids write swagger these days ;)
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