granddaddy

Perhaps it is an extension of what statistics is but acknowledging that stats was the granddaddy app.

For those wanting to play the granddaddy of Civ, try Empire or Empire Deluxe on iPad.

And really, you could lay all that straight at the feet of that granddaddy of all corruption issues: money in politics.

Through some Googling and helpful advice I found a free textbook about accelerators[3], which lead me to the granddaddy of papers, M.

> the granddaddy of all social networks—Facebook Have people seriously forgotten what socialising on the internet was like before Facebook?

A case in point is the granddaddy of them all, the Boolean Satisfiability Problem [1], or SAT for short, which was the first problem shown to be NP-hard.

That's what happens when you end up neighbors with the great great grandson of the bloke your great great granddaddy paid to have kidnapped and shipped to the country as a piece of equipment.

I'm sort of surprised to see that no one has yet mentioned Heinlein; I know he's a politically divisive figure in the fandom, to say the least, but he's also the great granddaddy of the modern field, and such prominence deserves recognition.

This position typically rakes in much of the profit while taking on relatively little risk and doing relatively little work to create the underlying value, and it always has; see: record labels, book publishers, app stores, cloud hosting, and of course the granddaddy of them all in the Internet age, Amazon.

I suspect people are using granddaddy more often for emphasis, as in "the king of a social networks--Facebook", not describing how old they are, since that comment was followed by details on how big Facebook is.

If: "Together they fashioned a general purpose programming language that was also suited to advanced mathematics and statistics and could run at speeds rivaling C, the granddaddy of the programming world." Then: "That said, it isn’t for everyone.

Sure there are plenty of strategic mistakes that will doom any army or enterprise - but the biggest one, the granddaddy of them all, is only listening to half of the proverb "hire great people then get out of their way" So many generals want to be sure everyone understands it is their clever tactics that won the war they forget the lessons of generals who really do - logistics and economics.

The thing with the German army ("Wehrmacht") is that for decades Germans told themselves that sure, SA/SS were evil and did horrible things, but the Wehrmacht was "clean", so granddaddy never did anything wrong, he was only defending his country.