calls

Think about operating on a collection of objects with `map` or `collect` or whatever your favorite language calls it.

There were no OS-provided libraries, only a documented list of software interrupt calls you could use!

One of the recipes calls for 1 pound of ground beef and makes 6 servings.

The Stream is modeled after The Inbox, which, despite long-standing calls to kill email, is a component of the most powerful and effective communication tool The Internet has given rise to.

Oh, and now that I'm happily employed at my current employer, I still get frequent calls from recruiters.

I think a huge plus for Ruby is the limited amount of specific punctuation required for calls like this.

We work closely with our customers, meaning phone calls, emails, and sometimes lunch.

It would work the same in a series of function calls or calculations.

We call ourselves American, and every English speaking country calls us American.

Some thoughts: What you call tabs are what vim calls buffers.

In fact, it calls to mind the Mooninite Bomb Scare [1].

Pretty crazy, it really calls for storage solutions doesn't it.

This is what MMM calls a "Position of Strength".

You're probably right, but nobody I know calls it "Whitted ray tracing" unless Turner is there in the room, or some point is being made about or in reference to his paper specifically.

I had one recruiter repeatedly send me calls and emails for a position I explicitly told them I wanted no part of the first time he contacted me, and he didn't stop until I sent an email saying "please cease and desist from contacting me again, or I will take legal action against both you and your firm" (I should've also called his firm's HR department, but c'est la vie...).

We're called the "support" department, but we don't field calls about "my cup holder is broken." We're much more likely to have someone turn compile 20K lines of C++ code with optimizations for the first time and have them tell us there's a bug in the compiler; but in reality their program has some undefined behavior that happens to behave differently with optimizations on -- and it's our job to find it!