A striped racer, also known as the California whipsnake, is a species of non-venomous snake native to the coast and foothills of California. It is a long, slender, and fast-moving snake, identified by its distinctive stripes running down the length of its body. They primarily feed on lizards and small rodents. The scientific name for this species is Masticophis lateralis.
Brillant
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Being incompetent, having a grossly inflated sense of ones competence, and possibly being lazy too, with the result being a very bad (or non-working) design or [implementation]. Often used in conjunction with the name [Paula]. Originates from a post on The Daily WTF (an online forum discussing examples of bad programming practices) where a lazy programmer named Paula had coded exactly five lines of Java for a major project in several months and had managed to bullshit her way through weekly meetings regarding her progress. One of the lines was:
private String [paula] = [Brillant];
whose sheer elementariness, inappropriateness in production code, narcissism and self-inflation, with a weird spelling for Brillant on top of everything else, was deemed memorable.
Brillant meaning & definition 1 of Brillant.