I don't completely (or even mostly!) agree with the author's politics or culture views.
That said, there is a still a lot here that resonates with me and, I suspect, with others.
Tech is a pretty derpy industry.
That said, there is a still a lot here that resonates with me and, I suspect, with others.
Tech is a pretty derpy industry.
It's often used by my colleagues and me to describe a mistake or state-of-mind that can be fixed but temporarily caused suffering or inconvenience. Almost always admits utility or value outside of the specific thing causing annoyance.
For example: "Yeah, the RAID card on that box is kinda derpy--usually fine, but it loses its damn mind on hibernate."
Or: "The way IE11 handles web workers is kinda jank. We tried using transferable objects, but for some reason it derps and trips all over itself in the sending worker."
Knowyourmeme has a good history of the word tracing it back to the 1998 movie Baseketball by South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
"Derpy Hooves" was the fan given name to a pony that looked, well, derpy.