n-Tier:

1. A confusing design guaranteed to require more resources.
2. Over-engineered by reducing the problem to its meaningless parts.

Non Disclosure Agreement:

Big red flag that a company thinks it has found a new way to do business, like the Dot Com Startups, or Enron.

Non-Trivial:

This is going to be really expensive.

Normalization:

The work necessary to reduce all flavors to vanilla, all data to cross-references, and all names to “Smith.”

“Not that Rock:”

A form of management through ignorance.

Bring me a rock.
What kind of rock?
I don’t Know. I’ll know it when I see it.
How about this rock?
Not that Rock. …

Null:

1. Nothing.
2. Something.
3. Undefined.
4. Rhymes with Orange.

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