Are you a nerd?

goddamniamsoawesome · July 30, 2011, 3:07pm

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CERN - Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire (French for European Council for Nuclear Research, now called European Organisation for Nuclear Research).

OOP - Object Oriented Programming

I got nothing on the others.

rizla86 · July 31, 2011, 12:23am

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^Yes

oh come on, CFC anyone? That’s like 4th grade.

Safoora · July 31, 2011, 2:30am

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^is it one of those ozone depleting things? I think they were called chloroflorocarbons?!

canadiandesigirl · July 31, 2011, 2:40am

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Riz, Blue already answered that one

STA:
Computer Science related terms.
CORBA
UML
NaN

PS. it seems we are having trouble with the comp sci ones. STA how about you give us some hints. In the mean time someone else can post more

TofiBaba · July 31, 2011, 5:28am

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His peas then?

CORBA = Common Object Request British Airways
UML = Unified Modeling Language
OOP = Object Oriented Programming
NaN = No Aadea na

STA · July 31, 2011, 6:26am

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correct

CORBA - related to distributed architecture
NaN - something related to numeric datatype

Let me know, if you want abbreviations meaning.

TofiBaba: you are correct with first three letters of CORBA. It seems like you know BA but didnt write correctly intentionally.

canadiandesigirl · August 1, 2011, 5:16pm

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Medical related:

HDL
CKD
FDA
AS

STA · August 2, 2011, 2:15pm

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CORBA - Common Object Request Broker Architecture
NaN - Not a Number

canadiandesigirl · August 2, 2011, 2:39pm

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Thanks STA, I guess we don’t have many IT members coming to this thread.

blueangel · August 4, 2011, 1:33pm

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No Tofi doesn’t know me. And he didnt write my full nickname intentionally because BA is so much easier

HDL- high density Lipoprotein
CKD- chronic kidney disease?
FDA- Food and Drug Administration

AS- aspartate?

Some easy ones from me:

BP
MI
FM
USSR

NomiCA · August 4, 2011, 1:34pm

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BA = British Airways

STA · August 4, 2011, 1:36pm

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BP - Blood Pressure
MI - Military Intelligence
FM - Frequency Modulation
USSR - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

blueangel · August 4, 2011, 1:38pm

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i had Myocardial Infarction aka heart attack in mind but yeah yours is right too!

Good work STA!!

Now post some EASY ones yourself!!

blueangel · August 4, 2011, 1:41pm

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mubaraks…eik khajoor apki huwi

Ishi khushi mey go ahead and post some abbreviations…easy peasy ones perhaps from your field CA??

STA · August 4, 2011, 1:49pm

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Here is my list of some easy ones.

IP
DB
Y2K

Uncle_Falker · August 4, 2011, 2:26pm

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^^ Internet Protocol, DataBase, Year 2000. ---------------- P&ID, PID, CMS, RMS, DSDM, PRINCE.

STA · August 4, 2011, 4:54pm

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PID - process ID
CMS - content management system

kchughtai · August 4, 2011, 5:36pm

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P&ID = Process and Instrumentation Diagram
PID = Proportional-Integral-Derivative Controller (Process Controller)
CMS = Content Management System

RMS = Risk Management Solution
DSDM = Dynamic Systems Development Method

STA · August 4, 2011, 5:37pm

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these are tough.
PCB
KISS

kchughtai · August 4, 2011, 5:45pm

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PCB = Pakistan Cricket Board
KISS = Keep It Short and Simple