help vampire

From help + vampire (“person who drains one’s energy, money, time, etc.”).

compound

Personally, I see this ratings/feedback thing only useful for mentors to know if a student is abusive and/or a help vampire, if he is willing to learn and put some effort on the process or not, etc, to be able to dedicate mentoring time to someone who will really appreciate it and will benefit from this.

2009 May 21, Matías Flores, “Rails Mentors”, in Bridgefoundry Google Group

All kinds of people hop onto the list. In addition to genuine ones there are spammers, trolls, dicks, nuts, philosophers, help-vampires etc etc.

2013 November 29, rusto…@gmail.com, “Managing Google Groups Headaches”, in comp.lang.python (Usenet)

Mark, I sympathize with your feelings. jmf is certainly a troll, and it doesn't feel like anything has been, or is being, done about that situation (or for that matter, the help vampire situation … although I haven't seen any threads from that one lately – did he give up, or has he been moderated away?). […] And, to be clear, the coddling of trolls and help-vampires also makes the list an unfriendly place to be. Terry, would it be appropriate to share some of what the moderators do do for us on this list and the others? And what does the Code of Conduct have to say about trolls and help-vampires?

2013 December 3, Ethan Furman, “Python Unicode Handling Wins Again – Mostly”, in comp.lang.python (Usenet)

(chiefly computing, derogatory, informal) A person who requests answers and solutions from a community while giving nothing in return.


FNaF

Five Nights at Freddy's
w:Five Nights at Freddy's

(video games) Acronym of Five Nights at Freddy's (video game series).


style sheet language

en-noun

style sheet language (plural style sheet languages)

(programming) A computer language that expresses the presentation of structured documents.

Stylesheet-Sprache

a computer language that expresses the presentation of structured documents


initial coin offering

initial coin offering (plural initial coin offerings)

The idea of an appcoin is not without its critics, however, as the topic broaches the sensitive topic of how assets are pre-allocated by cryptocurrency projects. In the altcoin world, where the development team commonly keeps a certain share of the initial coin offering, this process is known as premining.

2014 August 2, Daniel Cawrey, “The Promise and Pitfalls of Crypto Crowdfunding”, in CoinDesk, archived from the original on 2014-08-05

A type of funding using cryptocurrencies.


ICO

We have finished the coin website and are ready to launch the ICO offering. We are currently in the Phase 1 portion of the offering which is by far the best. We need your help in building a great community and we want to say Thank you with our ICO Phase one offering.

2014 February 27, Sparta, “Posted on Cryptocointalk.com”, in SpartaCoin, archived from the original on 2014-03-17

The hype around blockchain technology is turning ICOs into the next digital gold rush: According to the research firm Smith and Crown, ICOs raised $27.6 million in the first two weeks of May alone.

2017 May 31, David Z. Morris, “The Rise of Cryptocurrency Ponzi Schemes”, in The Atlantic

initial coin offering
initial coin offering#English

(cryptocurrencies) Initialism of initial coin offering.


k-d tree

(computing) A space-partitioning data structure for organizing points in a k-dimensional space, used in search algorithms etc.


watering hole attack

watering hole attack (plural watering hole attacks)

The name is derived from predators in the natural world, who wait for an opportunity to attack their prey near watering holes.

(computing) A computer attack strategy, in which the victim is a particular group (organization, industry, or region), and the attacker guesses or observes which websites the group often uses and infects one or more of them with malware.


skip-level

(databases) Having the form of a hierarchy, but with some of the intermediate levels omitted.


regression testing

During manual test execution, a newly introduced defect to previously working functionality might not be found until hours into the regression testing cycle.

1999, Elfriede Dustin, Jeff Rashka, John Paul, Automated Software Testing

Without regression testing, unseen bugs will accumulate, until suddenly nothing works in what was once thought to be a stable system.

2000, Robert V. Binder, Testing Object-oriented Systems: Models, Patterns, and Tools, page 32

Regression testing can account for as much as one-half of the cost of software maintenance.

2004, Mark Last, Abraham Kandel, Horst Bunke, Artificial Intelligence Methods in Software Testing, page 52

software engineering
software engineering

(software engineering) Testing a program after a modification to ensure that areas that should not be affected by the update behave as they did in previous versions.


Eulerian circuit

Eulerian circuit (plural Eulerian circuits)

(graph theory) an Eulerian trail that begins and ends at the same node


wikiverse

In the wikiverse, the word "contributions" refers to edits done to a wiki.

(Internet) The entire collective scope of wikis.


unparser

(computing) A program or algorithm that unparses.


switch engine

2. Is it possible to make the switch engine leave debris other than the normal 8 blocks/288 generations?

1990 May 17, David Moews, “Life questions”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

He did this by placing a large number of switch engines together so as to eliminate all debris. His original ship required 13 switch engines, but his smaller one given here only uses 10 of them.

1992 August 13, David Bell, “Spaceships in Conway's Life (Part 1)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

The average random Life pattern settles down instead of exploding (if you ignore output gliders and spaceships). There are exceptional quadratic-growth cases, mostly involving switch engines, but most random patterns affect only their immediate area.

2007 May 12, Dave Greene, “Wanted: 2D CA, "as complex" but "denser" than Life”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

(cellular automata) A particular methuselah in Conway's Game of Life that temporarily exhibits glide reflection symmetry while leaving debris behind, allowing for the construction of spaceships, puffers, and rakes.


predeclaration

(programming) A declaration made in advance; forward declaration.


conditional comment

conditional comment (plural conditional comments)

(programming) A comment in source code that can be interpreted as a directive by some systems, but is ignored by those others that are not aware of the convention; formerly used to overcome compatibility issues between web browsers.


bareword

(programming, chiefly Perl) A sequence of text characters in source code that do not form a keyword nor part of a quoted string, and may potentially be interpreted in various ways.


forward-declare

en-verb

forward-declare (third-person singular simple present forward-declares, present participle forward-declaring, simple past and past participle forward-declared)

forward-declares (present singular third-person)
forward-declaring (participle present)
forward-declared (participle past)
forward-declared (past)

(transitive, programming) Synonym of predeclare


X-pack

(video games, informal) Abbreviation of expansion pack.


behavioral subtyping

(programming, language theory) A subtype relation of the form that each subtype object satisfies the specification of the supertype.


premature optimisation

en-noun

premature optimisation (countable and uncountable, plural premature optimisations)

premature optimization
premature optimization#English

(programming) Alternative form of premature optimization


weak typing

(computing, programming) A system that does not place any restriction on the interactions between objects of different data types.


reference counting

(computing) The technique of storing the number of handles, pointers, or references to a resource such as a block of memory, disk space, or an object, so that the system can determine when the resource is no longer in use.


IMT

IMT (countable and uncountable, plural IMTs)

(computing) Initialism of Interactive Machine Translation


IMT

(Internet) Initialism of Internet Media Type (formerly MIME)


sideblog

(Internet) A secondary weblog, ancillary to the author's primary blog.


off-by-one error

off-by-one error (plural off-by-one errors)

(programming) A logic error where a value, typically the number of iterations of a loop, is specified incorrectly, being either 1 less or 1 more than it should be.


impedance mismatch

impedance mismatch (plural impedance mismatches)

Derived from the concept of impedance matching in electrical engineering.

Some argue that having impedance mismatch is difficult for programming intensive applications.

1997, Bhavani M. Thuraisingham, Data Management Systems: Evolution and Interoperation, CRC Press, page 33

But the impedance mismatch between SQL and Java was no better than between SQL and other languages.

2002, Jim Melton, Advanced SQL:1999: Understanding Object-Relational and Other Advanced Features, Morgan Kaufmann, page 353

Why does a technological impedance mismatch exist?

2004, Scott W. Ambler, The Object Primer: Agile Model-Driven Development with UML 2.0, Cambridge University Press, page 442

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

(object-oriented programming) A set of conceptual and technical difficulties that are often encountered when a relational database is being served by an object-oriented application program, particularly because objects or class definitions must be mapped to database tables defined by a relational schema.


infix operator

The plus sign in "2 + 2" is placed as an infix operator in arithmetic.

(computing) an operator that is placed in between the operands like it is commonly used in arithmetical and logical formulae and statements.


GTK

(computing, graphics) Initialism of GIMP Toolkit.


LLVM

(programming) Initialism of Low Level Virtual Machine. (collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies that are used to develop compiler front ends and back ends)


(cloud computing) Initialism of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. (a commercial web service for hosting computer applications)


IDLE

(programming, Python) Initialism of Integrated DeveLopment Environment.

(programming, Python) Initialism of Integrated Development and Learning Environment.


pay per play

(Internet) An online advertising method that plays an audio advertisement when the user visits a web page. The advertiser pays for each ad that is played in this way.


augmented assignment

augmented assignment (countable and uncountable, plural augmented assignments)

(programming) An assignment by which an operator takes a variable as one of its arguments and then assigns the result back to this variable.


assignment operator

assignment operator (plural assignment operators)

(computing) An operator that sets the value stored in the storage location(s) denoted by a variable name.


madware

This finding is inline with Symantec's recent report, which mentions the “madware” phenomenon, the practice of creating ad-aggressive mobile applications to obtain revenue.

2014, Sven Dietrich, editor, Detection of Intrusions and Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment

As mentioned, madware is a form of very aggressive adware that is prevalent on mobile devices. Due to the way the “free application” business model works on the Internet, developers consider madware to be not only harmless, but a legitimate aspect of application behavior.

2015, Jim Doherty, Wireless and Mobile Device Security, page 333


sharity

Originally a brand name for a product, possibly a Blend of share + charity + rarity.

A way around the lock-up problem of smbfs is to use sharity.

2001, Mike McCune, Integrating Linux and Windows, page 146

But with the advent of sharity that's shifted to: 'I've just got hold of something no one else has got, so I'm immediately going to make it available to EVERYBODY.'

2011, Simon Reynolds, Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past

According to Eric Lumbleau, creator of the music blog Mutant Sounds, the motivation behind sharity is a form of "self-aggrandizing altruism...blog authors anointing themselves as gurus and presiding over their own little kingdom of cool."

2015, Allan J. Kimmel, People and Products: Consumer Behavior and Product Design

A file-hosting and storage service for users to upload and share videos, music, software, and other content for others to use.


motsser

From the newsgroup name soc.motss (short for members of the same sex) + -er.

(Internet slang) A member of the soc.motss newsgroup for the discussion of gay issues.


endless runner

(video games) A style of platform game in which the player character runs non-stop through a hazardous course, and must be guided to jump, duck, etc. to avoid the hazards.


Twitface

Blend of Twitter + Facebook, the names of two major social media websites.

Leave the phone calls, leave the music, leave the TwitFace, and leave all your self-involved portal devices in the house. Take the brain and body out for some fresh air.

2014, The Velominati, The Rules: The Way of the Cycling Disciple

“Right. I won't talk about him on Twitface.”
“Not just social media. Do not mention him to the press, the police, or the government. Especially not the government. Do not cross him on this.”

(slang, humorous, derogatory) Social media.


Dexit

Blend of Pokédex + exit. Also a pun on Brexit.

Game Freak came clean, stating that it simply couldn’t include all Pokémon in the games — a first for the series — because of technical limitations. This controversy, known as Dexit by the fans, might have prompted less blowback if Game Freak could show that its decision led to better graphics and performance.

2022 November 18, Jhaan Elker, “After ‘Pokémon Scarlet’ and ‘Violet,’ we can’t give Game Freak a pass”, in The Washington Post

(Pokémon, fandom slang) The decision by Game Freak to make the National Pokédex absent from Pokémon Sword and Shield as well as for many Pokémon to be completely unavailable in these games.


Fenders

"Im going to sleep!" Reads fenders fics on phone until 4am

2015 July 23, Tentacle (@10takler), Twitter

EVERYBODY SHIPS FENDERS WRONG!!!! less angry makeouts more talking about feelings

2015 August 2, silver stars (@naiakiir), Twitter

In my Fenders headcanon, Anders accompanies Fenris in Blue Wraith.

2023 June 26, BinkyProd (@BinkyProd), Twitter

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Fenris and Anders from Dragon Age II.


startword

In fact, a set of metarules and a set of hyperrules is given whose power exceeds by far this example and only the choice of a specific hyperrule for the startword restricts it to this example.

1981, Mathematisch Centrum (Amsterdam, Netherlands) Afdeling Informatica, Report IW - Issues 181-190

A variation on this type of normalization consists of using a combination of startword lists and exclusion classes, e.g. remove all comparative adjectives except those in a domain list.

1992, Anne Morris -, The Application of Expert Systems in Libraries and Information Centres

Suppose that the colony starts its work from startword AA and let its terminal set be {a,b,c}

1999, Andras Kornai, Extended Finite State Models of Language - Volume 1, page 222

(computer science) A string of letters that identifies the beginning of a valid sequence in a specified language.


TeX

The letters of the name are meant to represent the capital Greek letters Τ (tau), Ε (epsilon), and Χ (chi), as TeX is an abbreviation of Ancient Greek τέχνη (tékhnē), which is also the root word of technical.

TFFI-mode makes it possible for BibTeX to work on plain TeX documents as well.

1986, Jacques Desarmenien, TEX for Scientific Documentation: Second European Conference, Strasbourg, France, June 19-21, 1986. Proceedings, Springer Science & Business Media, page 41

(computer languages) A digital typesetting system used primarily for the formatting of mathematical formulae.


omnibox

From omni- + box. Introduced by the Google Chrome browser and later adopted for use in Opera Neon.

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(Internet, graphical user interface) An enhanced address bar in a web browser that can also accept certain text commands.


greyware

(computing) Software that is not outright malicious but is generally undesirable or annoying, such as adware.


Throwback Thursday

Throwback Thursday (plural Throwback Thursdays)

If Throwback Thursday isn't a good fit for your goals, come up with your own recurring content theme.

2014, Kristin Magette, Embracing Social Media: A Practical Guide to Manage Risk and Leverage Opportunity, page 55

Throwback Thursday is another way to integrate your loved one into your life online.

2016, Allison Gilbert, Passed and Present: Keeping Memories of Loved Ones Alive, page 35

Are we having a little Throwback Thursday thing here?

2016, Danica Winters, Dust Up With The Detective

Kim also recognizes fans by noticing particular endeavors on her blog and by occasionally recognizing their contact with her on Throwback Thursdays.

2013, Amanda Scheiner McClain, Keeping Up the Kardashian Brand: Celebrity, Materialism, and Sexuality

Thanks to social media getting all nostalgic on Throwback Thursdays, everyone knows you once sported a mullet.

You flew to Dallas last Thursday and showed up at the Hilton after I Instagrammed a picture from my bat mitzvah. It was Throwback Thursday! That party happened over a decade ago.

2016, Laura Lane, Angela Spera, This Is Why You're Single

(Internet) Thursday as a traditional day for sharing previously-used content via social media.


billion laughs

In the most frequently cited example of such an attack, the first entity is the string lol (“laugh out loud”).

The XML billion laughs DoS attack simply starts by declaring an XML document with an entity named lol (hence the name laugh gets associated with it, but in a general case it can be any valid name).

2016, Prakhar Prasad, Mastering Modern Web Penetration Testing, Packt Publishing Ltd, page 193

denial-of-service attack
denial-of-service attack

(computer security) A type of denial-of-service attack which is aimed at parsers of XML documents, based on defining entities that expand to large numbers of copies of other entities.


zip bomb

(computing) A malicious zip file designed to produce a very large output, and consume a great deal of processing resources, during decompression.


deskbar

You can download Google's deskbar for free […] It automatically installs itself as a toolbar on the Windows XP taskbar, but you have to turn it on by right-clicking the taskbar and choosing Toolbars → Google Deskbar.

2005, Preston Gralla, Windows XP Power Hound: Teach Yourself New Tricks, page 179

(graphical user interface) Synonym of deskband


code completion

code completion (countable and uncountable, plural code completions)

(programming, uncountable) Autocompletion of source code.

(programming) A token predicted by means of autocompletion.


Google Doodle

American graphic designer and filmmaker, Saul Bass, has been given a video Google Doodle to mark what would have been his 93rd birthday.

2013 May 8, Luke Howard, “Google Doodle celebrates work of graphic designer Saul Bass with Video Tribute”, in The Independent

The Quintanilla-inspired Doodle comes after Google's homepage artwork has been criticized in the past for its lack of diversity. A report from advocacy group SPARK Movement found in 2014 that 62% of people featured in Google Doodles from 2010 through 2013 were white men.

2017 October 17, Lisa Eadicicco, “New Google Doodle Celebrates Iconic Singer Selena Quintanilla”, in Time

Today, a Google Doodle has celebrated the 66th anniversary of the creation of the game-changing institution.

2017 October 18, David Hughs, “Studio for Electronic Music remembered with Google Doodle – why the German institution's 66th anniversary is worth celebrating”, in The Sun

(Internet) A periodic alteration of the logo on Google's homepage that is intended to celebrate achievements, events, holidays, and noteworthy people.


metapackage

(computing) A software package that contains no software itself, but serves to install a particular set of other packages.


dwimmery

From DWIM + -ery, influenced by dwimmer.

This dwimmery causes the model to show that polar melting rates have absolutely no connection to world climate in general, and to rising ocean levels in particular.

2005, Damian Conway, Perl Best Practices

I think that, as with various other parts of Perl 6, we can try to sweep all the dwimmery into one spot so that it can be easily recognized and/or avoided.

2005 May 6, Larry Wall, “stdio”, in perl.perl6.language (Usenet)

The big challenge of Perl 6 is to achieve a high degree of dwimmery

2007 November 11, Michele Dondi, “Why can't you slice an array @a[3..-1]?”, in comp.lang.perl.misc (Usenet)

(computing, humorous) A computer program's ability to sense the user's intentions rather than work according to a well-defined specification.


magic link

(Wikimedia jargon) On MediaWiki, a feature that creates automatic links for certain hardcoded external identifiers, such as for ISBN numbers.


IAR

Ignore all rules
ignore all rules#English

(initialism, Wikimedia jargon) Ignore all rules.


Jewtube

(Internet slang, derogatory, offensive) The video sharing site YouTube, especially in the context of monetization of videos.


Threefish

From three + fish, modelled on the earlier Twofish.

(cryptography) A symmetric-key tweakable block cipher involving the Skein hash function.


ATR

adaptive tile refresh
adaptive tile refresh#English

(computer graphics) Initialism of adaptive tile refresh.


antiblocker

(computing) software that disrupts the activity of viruses etc. that try to block the activity of a computer.


bitrange

Finally, we show that our descriptors are able to compare favourably to other state-of-the-art compact descriptors in similar bitranges, exceeding the highest retrieval results reported in the literature on some datasets.

2016, Olivier Morère, Antoine Veillard, Jie Lin, Julie Petta, Vijay Chandrasekhar, Tomaso Poggio, “Group Invariant Deep Representations for Image Instance Retrieval”, in arXiv

(computer graphics) A range defined in terms of bits (binary digits).


sequentialization

sequentialization (countable and uncountable, plural sequentializations)

(computing theory) The conversion of a parallel algorithm into sequential form.


cybermall

(Internet) A virtual online shopping center; a collection of cyberstores.


SuperDisk

(computing) An early form of high-capacity floppy disk


superlayer

(Internet) A layer of an HTML frame that has other layers within it


CheckUser

A log of CheckUser actions is visible to all Checkusers.

2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, How Wikipedia Works: And how You Can be a Part of it, page 327

This is the CheckUser software, accessible to a restricted number of admins. CheckUser identifies what IP address registered Wikipedians are accessing the site from.

2009, Mathieu O'Neil, Cyberchiefs: autonomy and authority in online tribes, page 162

Wales wished to delegate the substantive disputes amng editors, determinations of which editors have the "CheckUser" power to check IP addresses of suspected vandals and the oversight power of "enhanced deletion" over libelous material or material that infringes copyright, and decisions about banning users that he had heretofore made on his own.

(Wikimedia jargon) A tool that allows someone to view the IP addresses of wiki users, so as to identify sock puppets, etc; or the authority to use that tool.


comdag

Blend of combined + DAG (“directed acyclic graph”).

blend

(graph theory) A directed acyclic combined graph.


Red Room

(Internet) According to an urban legend, a room where people are tortured and murdered for an audience of viewers via the Dark Web, the viewers sometimes voting or bidding on the form of torture to be performed.


rebalancer

(chiefly computing) That which rebalances.


autoconcurrency

(computing theory) The situation where two instances of the same actions occur simultaneously and in parallel.


headtracking

(computer graphics) A technique that tracks the movements of the user's head and adjusts the view of a three-dimensional model accordingly, allowing them to look at it from different angles like a solid object.


checkuser

Essjay is serving a second term as chair of the mediation committee. He is also an admin, a bureaucrat, and a checkuser, which means that he is one of fourteen Wikipedians authorized to trace IP addresses in cases of suspected abuse.

2006, The New Yorker, volume 82, numbers 20-28, page 41

In Wikipedia this kind of activities is performed by members who assume distinct social roles, for instance the quality of the articles is addressed by reviewers and rollbackers, and the users' management is handled by checkusers and account creators.

2011, Adriana S. Vivacqua, Carl Gutwin, Marcos R.S. Borges, Collaboration and Technology

Checkusers are allowed to check IP addresses of users, usually to confirm or disprove that one person is editing from several accounts. Although formally one does not have to be an administrator to become a checkuser, in practice only some administrators receive these rights.

2014, Dariusz Jemielniak, Common Knowledge?: An Ethnography of Wikipedia, page 34

(wiki jargon) A user who is granted access to view the IP addresses of wiki users, so as to identify sock puppets etc.


juice jacking

Coined by cybersecurity reporter Brian Krebs in 2011.

In the Blackhat community, one type of charging attacks is called juice jacking attacks, which can access to a significant amount of personal data without the user's permission and can install hidden malicious software on the device, as long as the device is unlocked.

2016, Zheng Yan, Refik Molva, Wojciech Mazurczyk, Raimo Kantola, Network and System Security, page 201

Through juice jacking, hackers have found an innovative way to compromise smart technology and potentially steal data or infect devices.

2021 June 24, Dr Thaddeus Eze, ECCWS 2021 20th European Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security, Academic Conferences Inter Ltd, page 453

(computing, technology) The act of stealing information from mobile devices by placing a data-stealing device that appears to be a charging station in a place where passers-by are likely to plug their devices into it.


CPP

(computer science) C++, pronounced "C plus plus," a high-level programming language.


diffable

en-adj

diffable (comparative more diffable, superlative most diffable)

more diffable (comparative)
most diffable (superlative)

Should you adopt a diffable data source for your table view? Or should you stick with the old-style Three Big Questions data source?

2019, Matt Neuburg, Programming iOS 13: Dive Deep into Views, View Controllers, and Frameworks, O'Reilly, page 509

(computing) Suitable for processing by a diff program in order to show differences.


match moving

(cinematography, computer graphics) A technique that allows the insertion of computer graphics into live-action footage with correct position, scale, orientation, and motion relative to the photographed objects in the shot.


error diffusion

(computer graphics) A form of halftoning in which the quantization residual is distributed to neighbouring pixels that have not yet been processed.


two seconds to black

(computing, informal) The situation where a computer monitor displays a correct screen image when first switched on, but then quickly blanks out, typically associated with capacitor problems.


MML

man-machine language
w:MML (programming language)

(computing) Initialism of man-machine language.


platformy

platformy (comparative more platformy, superlative most platformy)

more platformy (comparative)
most platformy (superlative)

A colourful, bouncy, groovesome platformy sort of thing that's a tad too hard for its own good.

1992, Jon Pillar, Captain Dynamo (video game review in Your Sinclair issue 79)

[…] a radical new, non-platformy direction […]

2006, Nintendo Power, volumes 208-210, page 143

(video games, informal) Characteristic of platform games.


free roam

If players can wander freely about the video game environment at their own pace with no linear pathway, as in Grand Theft Auto, the game is referred to as a “sandbox” or “free roam” game.

2011, Craig Haen, Engaging Boys in Treatment: Creative Approaches to the Therapy Process

This achievement can be acquired in multiple places in the world, both free roam mode and in story mode.

2017, Hse Game, Lego Star Wars The Force Unleashed Wii U Unofficial Game Guide

Deadly Premonition borrows from just about every game out there. It has the strange otherworld from Silent Hill (albeit not as creepy), the interactive cinematic elements from Heavy Rain (albeit not as pretentious), the free roam freedom of Grand Theft Auto (albeit not as big), and is in fact the open-world investigative adventure Alan Wake first promised to be.

(video games) A game mode where players can explore the game environment at will, rather than following a fixed story line.


free roam

en-verb

free roam (third-person singular simple present free roams, present participle free roaming, simple past and past participle free roamed)

free roams (present singular third-person)
free roaming (participle present)
free roamed (participle past)
free roamed (past)

After completing the initial London Story memory 'The Darkest Hour', you'll be able to free roam in WWI-era London and complete some additional associate tasks.

2015, GamerGuides.com, Assassin's Creed: Syndicate - Strategy Guide

(video games) To play in free roam mode.


noclip

noclip (third-person singular simple present noclips, present participle noclipping, simple past and past participle noclipped)

noclips (present singular third-person)
noclipping (participle present)
noclipped (participle past)
noclipped (past)

From no clip. Perhaps originates from the 1992 game Wolfenstein 3D, where (in the shareware version) using the appropriate cheat code displays a message "No clipping ON".

(video games) To navigate through a game environment with collisions disabled, so as to be able to pass through solid walls, etc.


leaky abstraction

en-noun

leaky abstraction (plural leaky abstractions)

Popularised in 2002 by software engineer Joel Spolsky.

This is a classic case of leaky abstraction. Repository is supposed to abstract away any concerns around querying the database, but now what we are doing here is returning an IQueryable<T> to the consuming code and asking it to build the queries, thus leaking the abstraction that is supposed to be hidden into repository.

2015, Suhas Chatekar, Learning NHibernate 4, Packt Publishing Ltd, page 291

(software engineering) An abstraction that undesirably exposes details and limitations of its underlying implementation.


SPIT

(Internet) Abbreviation of spam over Internet telephony.


DBU

(graphical user interface) Abbreviation of dialog base unit.


softwear

I also need church shoes – size 3 or 4 – for my eight-year-old daughter [and] softwear and church clothes for a 12-year-old boy.

2011, M.T., Dear Christine, The Nation News (Barbados)

At the time he was wearing a white T-shirt, long dress pants, and white softwear.

2017, “Elderly man on police missing persons list”, in Daily, Barbados: Nation

Please can someone point me in the right direction for advice on Hardwear & softwear.

1995 August 1, ha...@eastcoast.co.za, “FAX ON DEMAND SOFTWEAR & HARDWEAR - Please help”, in comp.dcom.fax (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-09

and why is it in alt.2600.et al
its not hardwear
its not softwear
its not cracks hacks or codes
its not cards phreaks wearz or hz

1998 February 14, nyarl-tep, “YOURE ALL FUCKIN DEAD!!!!!”, in alt.2600.phreakz (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-09

its a personallity belongs in a different catagory


GPT

/ˈd͡ʒiːˈpiːˈtiː/

GPT is part of Intel's EFI specification, but GPT can be used on computers that don't use EFI, and GPT is the preferred partitioning system for disks bigger than 2TiB.

2015, Christine Bresnahan, Richard Blum, LPIC-1 Linux Professional Institute Certification Study Guide, John Wiley & Sons, page 135

(computing) Initialism of GUID partition table.

We will use a 345M parameter GPT-2 transformer in TensorFlow from OpenAI's repository. We must get our hands dirty to understand GPT models.

2022, Denis Rothman, Antonio Gulli, Transformers for Natural Language Processing […], Packt Publishing Ltd, page 168

(machine learning) Initialism of generative pretrained transformer.


Modula

programming language
programming language

(computing) A programming language descended from Pascal, developed in the 1970s and having a module system for grouping sets of related declarations into program units.


digital humanities

The volume brings together a global team of authors who are pioneers of innovative research in the digital humanities.

2016, Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth, editors, A New Companion to Digital Humanities

“There is a lot of interest in digital humanities, but there is not a lot of money,” says Ilan Shimshoni, professor of computer vision and machine learning at the University of Haifa in Israel, where he works on archaeological projects that include reassembling artefacts from photos of fragments. “If you want to do an analysis of Facebook you’ll get much more money than if you want to look at ancient Greek artefacts.”

2020 July 1, Carly Minsky, quoting Ilan Shimshoni, “How AI helps historians solve ancient puzzles”, in Financial Times, retrieved 2021-04-12

An academic field concerned with the application of computational tools and methods to traditional humanities disciplines such as literature, history, and philosophy.


IoE

IoE (countable and uncountable, plural IoEs)

Coordinate term: IoT

The Internet of Everything (IoE) is a similar concept, of which IoT could be considered a part, and refers to millions of devices that connect with the internet […]

2015, Martin Greiner, Automotive Supply Chain Management in the Internet of Things, GRIN Verlag, page 1

Internet of Everything
Internet of Everything#English

(Internet) Initialism of Internet of Everything.


(Internet, networking) Initialism of Hypertext Transfer Protocol/2 (a major revision of the HTTP network protocol used by the World Wide Web and approved in 2015.)


singlecast

(programming, of a delegate) Having a single target; not multicast.


bivariance

(mathematics, computing) The state of being bivariant.


Cupertinian

en-adj

Cupertinian (comparative more Cupertinian, superlative most Cupertinian)

more Cupertinian (comparative)
most Cupertinian (superlative)

From Cupertino + -ian, after the location of the corporate headquarters of Apple Inc. in California. Compare Redmondian used to refer to Microsoft.

(informal, computing) Of or relating to the technology company Apple Inc.


costatement

(programming) A list of statements that effectively execute together (though not simultaneously), such that each can yield execution to the others to avoid delaying the program. They are used to implement cooperative multitasking.


running time

en-noun

running time (countable and uncountable, plural running times)

(computer science) Of an algorithm, the length of time required for it to run as a function, depending on the number of operations executed.


fuzzy controller

fuzzy controller (plural fuzzy controllers)

(computing, electronics) A controller that uses a fuzzy logic ruleset.


duospace

(computing, typography) Of a typeface, having characters of only two widths, where the narrower width is typically half that of the wider width.


requery

en-verb

requery (third-person singular simple present requeries, present participle requerying, simple past and past participle requeried)

requeries (present singular third-person)
requerying (participle present)
requeried (participle past)
requeried (past)


Turán's theorem

Named after the Hungarian mathematician Pál Turán.

(graph theory) A theorem stating that, among the n-vertex simple graphs with no (r + 1)-cliques, T(n, r) has the maximum number of edges.


TFCD

(Internet) Initialism of time for compact disc: a photographer's arrangement where the model is paid with a selection of the images from the shoot on CD.


TFP

(Internet) Initialism of time for print: a photographer's arrangement where the model is paid with a selection of prints from the shoot, and a limited licence to use them.


deduplicator

(computing) A process or system that deduplicates.


machoflops

(computing, slang) A deceptively inflated measure of the speed of a computer, as used in marketing materials.


unwipe

unwipe (third-person singular simple present unwipes, present participle unwiping, simple past and past participle unwiped)

unwipes (present singular third-person)
unwiping (participle present)
unwiped (participle past)
unwiped (past)

Of course, before that, he had put the photo files he'd made on disk and had erased them from the hard drive. While a good troubleshooter could unwipe them, he'd first have to crack the security barriers Tim had installed.

2010, James Robert Smith, The Flock, page 148

So the computer wipe had been cursory, and it had taken Bingwen only a few minutes to unwipe everything.

(transitive, computing) To undelete; to restore (data, files, etc.) previously wiped.


WOCA

(computing) Acronym of write once, compile anywhere.


YUI

(computing) Initialism of Yahoo! User Interface.


HMAC

hash-based message authentication code
w:HMAC

(cryptography) Initialism of hash-based message authentication code (a specific type of the message authentication code (MAC) involving a cryptographic hash function and a secret cryptographic key)


distribution list

en-noun

distribution list (plural distribution lists)

(Internet) An electronic mailing list, made up of the recipients' e-mail addresses.


chat group

(Internet) A group of people who meet and chat online, especially in a chat room


Mactel

(computing, informal) Apple–Intel architecture.


Mersenne twister

Mersenne twister (plural Mersenne twisters)

pseudorandom number generator
pseudorandom number generator

(computing) A kind of pseudorandom number generator whose period length is chosen to be a Mersenne prime.


barcode scanner

barcode scanner (plural barcode scanners)


superinterface

(object-oriented programming) The interface from which another (the subinterface) is derived.


barcode reader

(computing) An electronic device that can read and output printed barcodes to a computer.


block graph

(graph theory) A type of undirected graph in which every biconnected component (block) is a clique.


Floyd-Warshall algorithm

the Floyd-Warshall algorithm (canonical)

Named after Robert W. Floyd and Stephen Warshall.

(computer science, graph theory) An algorithm for finding shortest paths in a weighted graph with positive or negative edge weights (but with no negative cycles).


pixelize

en-verb

pixelize (third-person singular simple present pixelizes, present participle pixelizing, simple past and past participle pixelized)

pixelizes (present singular third-person)
pixelizing (participle present)
pixelized (participle past)
pixelized (past)

Vector graphics are resolution-independent and can be scaled to any size without losing detail, whereas a bitmap image is resolution-dependent and can pixelize when printed beyond its resolution parameters.

2006, Eddie Tapp, Photoshop Workflow Setups, O'Reilly, page 169

Aftenposten’s editor-in-chief, Espen Egil Hansen, said the newspaper had received a message from Facebook asking it to “either remove or pixelize” the photograph.

2016 September 9, Alice Ross, Julia Carrie Wong, “Facebook deletes Norwegian PM's post as ‘napalm girl’ row escalates”, in The Guardian

(transitive, intransitive, computer graphics) To pixelate; to convert into pixels.


(computing, of a word size, or an integer) Represented using 7 bits (ASCII).


MSNBC

An initialism from the names of its founders, Microsoft and the National Broadcasting Company.

(television) An American news-based television channel and website.


Frightful Five

The companies I call the Frightful Five — Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and Alphabet, Google’s parent company — have experienced astounding growth over the last few years, making them the world’s five most valuable public companies.

2017 October 11, Frahad Manjoo, “The Frightful Five Want to Rule Entertainment. They Are Hitting Limits.”, in The New York Times

Both factors freeze out other entrants, limit the number of insiders to one or two, and reduce many outsiders to irrelevance, if they survive at all. Lest anyone doubt the importance of rapid scaling and network effects, the Frightful Five benefit(ed) from these factors.

2017 September/October, Shane Greenstein, “Insider Privileges”, in IEEE Micro, volume 37, number 5

The major asset of technology's "Frightful Five" - Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple - lies in their ability to synergize user databases with thrid party commerce (MIT Sloan 2017; Manjoo 2017).

2018, Karan P. Jani, Anmol Soni, “Promise and Perils of Bid Data Science for Intelligence Community”, in Technology and the Intelligence Community, page 184

Imagine that an "evil, tech-phobic monarch" forced everyone to stop using products and services from the major technology companies: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, and Alphabet (the parent company of Google), a.k.a. the "Frightful Five."

2018, Brett Frischmann, Evan Selinger, Re-Engineering Humanity, page 2

Overall, the Frightful Five are healthier than ever.

2019, Ronald M. Baecker, Computers and Society: Modern Perspectives, Oxford University Press, page 367

(informal) The five largest technology companies in the world: Amazon, Apple, Alphabet (owner of Google), Facebook (or its parent company Meta) and Microsoft.


overlicensed

en-adj

overlicensed (comparative more overlicensed, superlative most overlicensed)

more overlicensed (comparative)
most overlicensed (superlative)

(computing) Having purchased more licences than are legally required.


underlicensed

underlicensed (comparative more underlicensed, superlative most underlicensed)

more underlicensed (comparative)
most underlicensed (superlative)

If you are in the situation where the shortfall or deficit is too large, clearly you will need to establish if the installed software that is underlicensed is actually in use and/or required in the business.

2011, Martyn Hobbs, IT Asset Management: A Pocket Survival Guide, page 31

(computing) Having purchased fewer licences than are legally required.


VBR

Coordinate term: CBR

(computing) Initialism of variable bitrate.


RNN

random neural network
random neural network#English

recurrent neural network
recurrent neural network#English

recursive neural network
recursive neural network#English


quantum supremacy

Coined by American theoretical physicist John Preskill in 2012.

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Google said on Wednesday that it had achieved a long-sought breakthrough called “quantum supremacy,” which could allow new kinds of computers to do calculations at speeds that are inconceivable with today’s technology.

2019 October 23, Cade Metz, “Google Claims a Quantum Breakthrough That Could Change Computing”, in New York Times

The potential ability of quantum computers to solve problems that are intractable for classical computers.


SHM

(Internet slang) Initialism of shake my head.


recurrent neural network

en-noun

recurrent neural network (plural recurrent neural networks)

(machine learning) An artificial neural network where the connections between units give them a kind of internal memory useful for processing arbitrary sequences of inputs as in speech recognition.


hotword

[…] and will jump to the Web page "order.htm" if a user clicks on the hotword.

1997, S. M. H. Collin, Setting Up a Web Server, page 154

Hotwords can be activated fast, typically by a single mouse click. But sometimes the link anchored in a hotword doesn't take the reader to the expected place, because of bad wording, for example.

2013, Wolfgang Schuler, Jörg Hannemann, Norbert Streitz, Designing User Interfaces for Hypermedia, page 211

Google recently killed an extension in the open source Chromium browser that enabled “OK, Google” hotword detection. The move follows developer concern that the proprietary functionality was included in Chromium to begin with.

2015 June 25, Ian Paul, “'OK Google' hotword detection yanked from Chromium after user revolt”, in PCWorld

Smartphones make a lot of compromises to be compact and low power though, so the hotword performance was never as good as it could be thanks to tiny microphones and low-power modes that could kill hotword detection.

2016 November 3, Ron Amadeo, “The mesh hotword system is straight out of Star Trek”, in Ars Technica

Home assistants all work in a similar way: you say a hotword — "Alexa" for Amazon Echo, "Hey Google" for Google Homes — and they switch on, ready to record your question/order, send it to the cloud, and then answer/execute your order.

2017 October 11, Gianluca Mezziofiore, “Google is forced to shut down Home Mini feature that quietly records everything”, in Mashable


semireliable

(chiefly computing) Partly or somewhat reliable; having a fair degree of reliability.


fail-soft

(computing) Able to proceed even after an error condition by selectively skipping parts of the processing.


special case

en-verb

special case (third-person singular simple present special cases, present participle special casing, simple past and past participle special cased)

special cases (present singular third-person)
special casing (participle present)
special cased (participle past)
special cased (past)

Special-casing the 100 most common words in English might speed things up.

1988, Jon Louis Bentley, More Programming Pearls: Confessions of a Coder, page 10

If these programs work as well as they can even without going through QuickDraw, what's the penalty for going around the system and special casing?

1992, Scott Knaster, Keith Rollin, Macintosh Programming Secrets, page 46

Other languages have since special-cased that kind of computation with, for example, generators in Python or something where you can yield values.

2009, Peter Seibel, Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming, page 258

(transitive, intransitive, chiefly programming) To treat something as a special case; to handle in an explicitly different way.


netaholic

(informal) A person who is addicted to the Internet.


CMIS

w:Content Management Interoperability Services

(computing) Initialism of Content Management Interoperability Services.

Common Management Information Service
w:Common Management Information Service

(computing) Initialism of Common Management Information Service.


clickocracy

From click + -ocracy, a neologism in the form of democracy.

Owing to the 'clickocracy' of the Internet, a Web site can set up shop with a miniscule budget and end up competing with the big guns.

2002, Matt Haig, How Come You Don't Have an E-business Strategy?: The Essential Guide to Online Business, Kogan Page Publishers, published 2002, page 3

Like it or not, we now belong to a clickocracy -- one nation under Google, with video and e-mail for all.

2008 April 1, Jose Antonio Vargas, “Campaign.USA: With the Internet Comes a New Political 'Clickocracy'”, in Washington Post

To be sure, algorithmic media also require audience participation—but only in an automated, aggregated clickocracy.

2012, Michael Schudson and Katherine Fink, "The Algorithm Method: Making news decisions in a clickocracy," Columbia Journalism Review, January/February 2012

Also, and rather critically, in the new world of clickocracy, "my vote doesn't make a difference" makes the erroneous assumption that voting is the only expression of political will now available to us.

2013, Justin Cash, The Rise of Clickocracy: Politics for a Digital Age, Lulu, page 143

(neologism) the role of the internet and algorithmic media in elections and governance.


OXM

(object-oriented programming) Initialism of Object XML Mappings.


portsweep

(computing) A portscan that connects to numerous host computers in search of a specific open port rather than scanning a single computer for any open port.


Bloch sphere

Named after Swiss-American physicist Felix Bloch (1905–1983).

named-after

(quantum mechanics) A geometrical representation of the pure state space of a two-level quantum-mechanical system, or qubit.


wake word

(computing) A word or phrase that activates a dormant device when spoken by the user.


data scrubbing

(computing) An error-correction technique that periodically inspects main memory or storage for errors, then correct detected errors using redundant data in the form of different checksums or copies of data.


toys-to-life

(video games) A video game feature that allows physical figurines to be recognised by the machine (through radio tagging, image recognition, etc.) and incorporated into gameplay.


destructive backspace

en-noun

destructive backspace (plural destructive backspaces)

(computing) A backspace that erases the character at the previous position, in addition to moving the cursor.


magic packet

Originally trademarked by AMD, but is now in common usage.

(networking) A specially crafted packet that will turn on a computer with wake-on-LAN support if it is received by the computer's network card in standby mode.


fastloader

I'm still waiting for the entire fastloader problem to be solved on the emulators. Could somebody give me an update on whether an up-and-coming emulator will solve this.

1996, W. and S. Young, “C64 Fastloader prob solved?”, in comp.emulators.cbm (Usenet)

The tape system could basically be told to work in any manner you wanted it to, fastloaders like Cyberload read the data in backwards and encrypted, run considerably faster than the stock loader and still only take about a tenth of the processors time so other jobs can execute simultaneously.

1999, Jason, “Target: Renegade - was Knight Lore & Alien 8”, in comp.sys.sinclair (Usenet)

Upon booting on the PC version, the game recreated the Commodore 64 loading screen and 'fastloader' coloured stripes. This knowing reference filled twenty-something gamers with a warm glow […]

2007, James Newman, Iain Simons, 100 Videogames, page 63

(computing, historical) Synonym of turboload


TOAST

(databases) Initialism of The Oversized-Attribute Storage Technique: a mechanism in PostgreSQL that allows rows of data to exceed the normal maximum size by splitting off part of the data into an auxiliary table.


ASFR

This initialism stems from the now-defunct Usenet newsgroup alt.sex.fetish.robots.

(Internet) Initialism of alt.sex.fetish.robots.


deep learning

Coined by Israeli-American computer scientist Rina Dechter in 1986.

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Deep learning was given a particularly audacious display at a conference last month in Tianjin, China, when Richard F. Rashid, Microsoft’s top scientist, gave a lecture in a cavernous auditorium while a computer program recognized his words and simultaneously displayed them in English on a large screen above his head.

2012 November 23, John Markoff, “Scientists See Promise in Deep-Learning Programs”, in New York Times

(computing) A form of machine learning based on the interpretation of the structure of data.


ganker

(online gaming, slang) One who ganks in gameplay.


lockdown browser

en-noun

lockdown browser (plural lockdown browsers)

(education) A software package, essentially a restricted web browser, that prevents users from navigating away from a particular online task, commonly used when holding tests, quizzes, etc.


concat

en-verb

concat (third-person singular simple present concats, present participle concatting, simple past and past participle concatted)

concats (present singular third-person)
concatting (participle present)
concatted (participle past)
concatted (past)

Abbreviation; also used as a keyword or function name in some programming environments.


OOM

If you write infinitely recursive code, you might generate an OOM error.

(programming) Initialism of out of memory.

(video games) Initialism of out of mana.


desknote

With its eye-popping 17-inch display, superfast Intel Hyper-Threading CPU, and versatile DVD/CD burner, the HP Pavilion zd7001 is one of the best desknotes you can buy.

(computing) A notebook computer equipped with the greater power and features of a desktop computer.


AVGN

Angry Video Game Nerd
w:Angry Video Game Nerd

(video games) Initialism of Angry Video Game Nerd..


overposter

I dislike the overposters as well.

1999 January 7, Jim Luftman, “reguarding an overposter!!!!! please read”, in rec.arts.comics.marketplace (Usenet)

I'm hardly an overposter.

2001 July 25, Aerogram, “Dickhead compilation”, in alt.music.prince (Usenet)

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 12:49:33 -0400, Huronia wrote about a certain overposter: If my family had no food, I think I'd be working on that problem instead of complaining to cyberbuddies all day that I'm running out.

2003 October 23, Charles Perrin, “Do you make alt.fashion related holiday gifts?”, in alt.fashion (Usenet)

He's a compulsive overposter, just like Kent Paul Dolan, over on talk.bizarre!

2008 May 23, Bob, “Senator Ted Kennedy has a brain tumor”, in alt.recovery.aa (Usenet)

It's hard to find the opinions of a variety of people when one overposter buries all the others.

2010 November 22, Freedom Man, “Obwon has alot of time on his hands again”, in nyc.politics (Usenet)

Without unfriending someone, you can now choose to limit or block (unsubscribe) someone from your newsfeed or choose to see only what Facebook deems as very important. If you find yourself annoyed by an over-poster on Facebook, don't hesitate to unsubscribe. (They won't know that you did!)

2013, Nils Smith, Social Media Guide for Ministry: What It Is and How to Use It

(Internet) A person who makes too many posts, for example on social media or a forum.


tasktray

(graphical user interface) The notification area or tray, part of the taskbar.


auto-tiering

(computing) The automatic movement of data between storage locations based on how often it has been accessed, in order to optimize performance.


subdeployment

Here are some rules of thumb to help you use modules and subdeployments in their recommended way.

2010, Robert Patrick, Gregory Nyberg, Philip Aston, Professional Oracle WebLogic Server

(computing, JMS) a mechanism by which JMS module resources are grouped and targeted to a server resource.


rangeable

en-adj

rangeable (comparative more rangeable, superlative most rangeable)

more rangeable (comparative)
most rangeable (superlative)

Obviously, the more searchable fields that are available (as opposed to those which are limitable or rangeable), the more bibliometric studies are possible.

The form VALUE- (where VALUE means a rangeable search term) specifies a range of values from and including VALUE, and all higher values.

1994, Common Command Language for Online Interactive Information Retrieval

For example, for Fixnum, succ returns the current number plus one. This method is necessary if you want to make your class to work with ranges. To have a “rangeable class,” you must also provide an implementation to the <=> operator (which is what the range uses internally to know when it should stop).

2010, Shay Friedman, IronRuby Unleashed, e-Pub

(computing) Supporting the use of ranges.


HAIFA

(cryptography) Abbreviation of hash iterative framework: a cryptographic structure used in the design of hash functions.


crossover cable

en-noun

crossover cable (plural crossover cables)

(networking) A cable, especially an Ethernet cable, that allows two devices of the same kind, such as two computers, to be connected directly.


Yelper

(Internet) A user of Yelp, an Internet service that publishes crowdsourced reviews of local businesses.


hodl

en-verb

hodl (third-person singular simple present hodls, present participle hodling, simple past and past participle hodled)

hodls (present singular third-person)
hodling (participle present)
hodled (participle past)
hodled (past)

Originally a mistyping of hold, appearing in a forum post on December 18, 2013. The backronym "Hold On for Dear Life" is sometimes used.

Bitcoin price continues decline. If you're hodling, bite your government passbook.

2016 July 22, Venzen Khaosan, “Bitcoin Price Decline 100% Confirmed”, in Cryptocoins News

I believe that the individuals who have the fortitude and insight to be hodling onto their coins deserve to be rewarded for their risk. It is also my hope that I am hodling more coins if/when the price skyrockets.

2017 April 22, “Bitcoin Is Not Immune to All Fiat Problems”, in The Merkle

Cryptocurrency veterans love to “hodl,” aka store their virtual loot as a long-term investment. But digital currency wasn't only made for hodling.

2017 November 10, Leigh Cuen, “Cyber Monday Guide: How To Buy Christmas Presents With Bitcoin”, in International Business Times

Buy and hold strategies for Bitcoin ("hodling" as it called) is likely to have far lower returns, even if the future is positive, and traders will lose the volatility that has made Bitcoin trading so profitable.

2017 November 26, Lynn Sebastian Purcell, “Why Futures Spell The End Of Bitcoin Mania”, in Toronto Star

But even those with the stomach for hodling must avoid an even bigger issue — hacking.

2021 April 25, Erin Griffith, “We’re All Crypto People Now”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

(neologism) To hoard a kind of cryptocurrency, especially bitcoin.


automated machine learning

en-noun

automated machine learning (uncountable)

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

(artificial intelligence) A field of study concerned with the design and development of algorithms and techniques of automating the end-to-end process of machine learning and artificial intelligence.

自動化された機械学習

じどうかされたきかいがくしゅう


double free

(programming) The situation where a program attempts to free a previously allocated resource more than once, potentially resulting in undefined behaviour that may be exploited by an attacker.


Pournelle's law

After Jerry Pournelle (1933–2017), American writer of science fiction.

(computing) The rule of thumb that there should be at least one CPU for each user of a system.


scambaiter

(Internet) One who engages in scambaiting.


tailable

(databases) Of a cursor: not closed when the end of the resultset is reached, but able to be used as further documents are added to the collection.


autoconfig

(computing) Abbreviation of autoconfiguration.


unsave

en-verb

unsave (third-person singular simple present unsaves, present participle unsaving, simple past and past participle unsaved)

unsaves (present singular third-person)
unsaving (participle present)
unsaved (participle past)
unsaved (past)

to unsave a Snapchat message

It is an error to try to unsave a file which doesn't exist.

1986, Larry Joel Goldstein, Structured Programming with True BASIC, page 267

(computing, transitive) To undo an act of saving; to erase.


Rice's theorem

Named after Henry Gordon Rice, who proved it in 1951.

(computing theory) A theorem stating that all nontrivial semantic properties of programs are undecidable.


worklet

(computing) A small piece of functionality encapsulating a single task.


double opt-in

(Internet, marketing) The situation where a subscriber to a newsletter etc. first provides their e-mail address and then receives a confirmation request to that address, requiring them to take further action (such as clicking a hyperlink) to activate the subscription.


fraggable

en-adj

fraggable (comparative more fraggable, superlative most fraggable)

more fraggable (comparative)
most fraggable (superlative)

We are in a familiar FPS dungeon world with massively armoured avatars toting huge weapons, but the soundtrack is not quite what we might expect:
'Hello there Razor, you're looking sharp.'
'Hi Anarchy, you're more fraggable than ever and I'm not the only one who thinks so.'

2006, Jon Dovey, Helen W. Kennedy, Game Cultures: Computer Games As New Media

For example, games are highly interactive but a dangerous beast when used for virtual heritage: content is fraggable, destroyed rather than created, and the social position of the participants is continually threatened rather than established.

2007, Yehuda Kalay, Thomas Kvan, Janice Affleck, New Heritage: New Media and Cultural Heritage

(video games, slang) Able to be fragged (killed).


graceful degradation

Since we built the website with graceful degradation in mind, it will replace animations with textual cues if JavaScript is not available.

(chiefly computing) The ability of a system to maintain at least some of its functionality when portions are not working, or when certain features are not available.


devirtualize

en-verb

devirtualize (third-person singular simple present devirtualizes, present participle devirtualizing, simple past and past participle devirtualized)

devirtualizes (present singular third-person)
devirtualizing (participle present)
devirtualized (participle past)
devirtualized (past)

Because functions that contain references to this cannot be inlined, the Compiler's ability to devirtualize prototype methods is even more important in terms of reducing the size of compiled code. By devirtualizing methods and removing references to this, more methods become functions that are candidates for inlining.

2010, Michael Bolin, Closure: The Definitive Guide

(computing, transitive) To make no longer virtual.


KSP

Kerbal Space Program
w:Kerbal Space Program

(video games) Initialism of Kerbal Space Program.


theorycraft

theorycraft (third-person singular simple present theorycrafts, present participle theorycrafting, simple past and past participle theorycrafted)

theorycrafts (present singular third-person)
theorycrafting (participle present)
theorycrafted (participle past)
theorycrafted (past)

(video games) To analyze (especially mathematically) the underlying mechanics of a video game in order to optimize or minimax one's gameplay.


theorycraft

en-noun

theorycraft (countable and uncountable, plural theorycrafts)


theorycrafting

theorycrafting (countable and uncountable, plural theorycraftings)

(video games) The act by which something is theorycrafted.


clickably

en-adv

clickably (comparative more clickably, superlative most clickably)

more clickably (comparative)
most clickably (superlative)

(computing) Such that it can be clicked, or activated by clicking a link.


suballocator

As a result, many compilers automatically allocate blocks of memory and then parcel chunks out to programs with a suballocator when needed. That is, the compiler allocates a chunk of some 4,000 bytes and then parcels this memory out to you in bits and pieces when you need it.

1995, Charles Calvert, Teach Yourself Windows 95 Programming in 21 Days, page 1170

(chiefly computing) One who or that which suballocates.


milkshake duck

From a Twitter post by Ben Ward (pixelatedboat) on June 12th, 2016: "The whole internet loves Milkshake Duck, a lovely duck that drinks milkshakes! *5 seconds later* We regret to inform you the duck is racist".

(Internet slang) Someone or something, especially on social media, that is widely considered to be endearing, but is then discovered to be or have done something deeply flawed or distasteful.


live CD

(computing) A storage medium, often a compact disc, that contains a complete operating system that can be booted off the medium without having to install it.


color depth

en-noun

color depth (countable and uncountable, plural color depths)

(computer graphics) The number of bits per pixel used to store color information in an image.

kolorozo

computer graphics: the number of bits (binary digits) used to represent the colour of a single pixel


validation suite

validation suite (plural validation suites)


test suite

(computing) A container that has a set of tests with similar test cases to show that it has some specified set of behaviours.


PageRank

Named after Google co-founder Larry Page (1973–) and, punningly, (web) page.

named-after

(Internet) The algorithm used by Google Search to rank webpages and other media on the Internet.


PageRank

(Internet) The rank of a page calculated by the PageRank algorithm.


grey-box testing

black-box testing
black-box testing#English

white-box testing
white-box testing#English

(software, testing) A combination of black-box testing and white-box testing, where knowledge about the internal data structures and algorithms is used to design tests while executing those tests at the user, or black-box, level.


gray-box testing

grey-box testing
grey-box testing#English

(software, testing) Alternative form of grey-box testing.


input neuron

(machine learning) A neuron in the input layer of a neural network, outputting only a constant.


hidden layer

(machine learning) The layer or layers of neurons between the input layer and the output layer in a neural network.


aim assist

You have to use the rapid fire mode on your PBC to turn off aim assist.

2001 April 8, Stephen Robertson, “Re: Wahooo, just got IWar Deluxe for $10”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.space-sim (Usenet), message-ID <hM1A6.69732$BA3.565909@monolith.news.easynet.net>

The lack of a second analog stick makes aiming and strafing somewhat difficult, though the game compensates by including an “aim assist” feature to help wayward shots find their mark.

2007 October, Ryan Burke, “Call of Duty: Roads to Victory, by Activision, 2007, $39.99.”, in Military History, volume 24, number 7, Weider History Group, →ISSN, page 69

The only way to make nonobvious, effective aim assist is to create a number of interleaved subsystems that help players in different ways.

2013, Tynan Sylvester, Designing Games: a Guide to Engineering Experiences, O'Reilly Media, page 241

(video games) Automatic adjustment to aim to improve accuracy.


feedforward neural network

en-noun

feedforward neural network (plural feedforward neural networks)

(machine learning) A neural network in which the outputs are not used as input in a previous layer.


multilayer perceptron

multilayer perceptron (plural multilayer perceptrons)

(machine learning) A neural network having at least one hidden layer, and whose neurons use a nonlinear activation function (e.g. sigmoid).


permanent brain

permanent brain (countable and uncountable, plural permanent brains)

This observation is in line with common human intuition that too strong or too weak opponents are not as valuable as the ones playing on approximately the same level. The weakest feature of KnightCap was playing in the opening phase. One possible remedy to this problem is the idea of “permanent brain” introduced in Crafty - the strongest publicly available freeware Chess program and a direct descendant of a former Computer Chess Champion - Cray Blitz.

2007, Wlodzislaw Duch, Jacek Mandziuk, Challenges for Computational Intelligence, page 417

The [chess] program was set in normal playing mode, with non-deterministic, permanent brain styles. Technically it was given ample pause times, […]

2007, Journal of the Society for Psychical Research

(video games) In turn-based games, the feature of an artificial intelligence opponent that allows it to evaluate and plan its moves even during another player's turn.


golden record

(databases) A single authoritative record on an individual customer etc. that draws from various other data sources.


AGDQ

Awesome Games Done Quick
w:Awesome Games Done Quick

(video games) Initialism of Awesome Games Done Quick.


GDQ

(video games) Initialism of Games Done Quick.


SGDQ

Summer Games Done Quick
w:Summer Games Done Quick

(video games) Initialism of Summer Games Done Quick.


SLAM

SLAM (countable and uncountable, plural SLAMs)

simultaneous localization and mapping#English

(computer science, uncountable) Initialism of simultaneous localization and mapping.


linklog

Business blogs have a tendency to be factual and outward facing, using a linklog style that points to interesting or relevant information on the Internet.

2006, Axel Bruns, Joanne Jacobs, Uses of Blogs, page 59

Sometimes a linklog will run alongside fuller journal entries or other commentary.

2007, Vivien Morgan, Practising Videojournalism, page 149

(Internet) A weblog consisting primarily of links to other sites.


IANAD

(Internet) Initialism of I am not a doctor.


Elsagate

From Elsa + -gate, after the protagonist of Disney's 2013 animated film Frozen whose likeness often appears in the videos.

Just a few months after the Pizzagate debacle, Elsagate was formed with a very similar playbook: a group of amateur sleuths using open-source intelligence to fight a hazily defined evil threatening helpless children.

2017 December 8, Russell Brandom, “Inside Elsagate, the conspiracy-fueled war on creepy YouTube kids videos”, in The Verge, archived from the original on 2017-12-08

Videos that are in the Elsagate category are not hard to identify. Typically, they feature Spiderman and Elsa together and are extremely low-budget videos without much structure or plot.

2019 August 2, Sherri Gordon, “Keeping Your Child Safe on YouTube After Elsagate”, in Verywell Family, archived from the original on 2020-03-22

(Internet, neologism) The controversy surrounding supposedly child-friendly videos posted on the Internet that contain themes inappropriate for children, such as violence and sexual situations.


artefacting

(computer graphics) Alternative form of artifacting


artifacting

(computer graphics) The formation of artifacts in a digital image.


RLDRAM

RLDRAM (countable and uncountable, plural RLDRAMs)

A single 32 MByte RLDRAM and its controller has enough throughput to support many PEs possibly up to 20 if some wait states are accepted. Bank collisions are mostly avoided by the MMU hashing policy. There are several Virtex-II-Pro boards with RLDRAM on board which can clock the RLDRAM at 300 MHz with DDR I/O, well below the 400 MHz specification, but the access latency is still 20 ns or 8 clocks.

2005, J.F. Broenink, H.W. Roebbers, J.P.E. Sunter, Communicating Process Architectures 2005: WoTUG-28, IOS Press, page 344

An example of this is evident in reduced latency DRAMs (RLDRAMs). Figure 8.11 shows a typical Read operation for an RLDRAM. A row activation cycle with Read and Precharge takes less than 15 ns from start to finish, as shown. These devices are built to serve applications that previously resorted to using SRAM. RLDRAMs have a traditional SRAM broadside address interface but are otherwise DRAMs built for low cycle times and low Read latency.

2008, Brent Keeth, DRAM Circuit Design: Fundamental and High-Speed Topics, John Wiley & Sons, page 188

The first-generation RLDRAM device was designed by Infineon to meet the demands of the market for networking equipment. Subsequently, Micron was brought in as a partner to co-develop RLDRAM and provide a second source. However, Infineon has since abandoned RLDRAM development, and Micron proceeded ahead to develop the second-generation RLDRAM II. RLDRAM and RLDRAM II were designed for use in embedded applications.

2010, Bruce Jacob, Spencer Ng, David Wang, Memory Systems: Cache, DRAM, Disk, Morgan Kaufmann, page 494

dynamic random access memory
dynamic random access memory#English

(computing) Initialism of reduced latency dynamic random access memory.


online learning

stochastic gradient descent
stochastic gradient descent

(machine learning) The training of a neural network using stochastic gradient descent with a mini-batch size of one; only one input is used for training at a time.


curse of dimensionality

Coined by American mathematician Richard E. Bellman.

coinage

Coordinate term: blessing of dimensionality

The curse of dimensionality is that vectors will get exponentially farther and farther away from one another, in Euclidean distance, as the dimensionality increases. A lot of simple operations become impractical above 10 or 20 dimensions, like sorting a large list of vectors based on their distance[…]

2019, Hannes Hapke, Cole Howard, Hobson Lane, Natural Language Processing in Action, Simon and Schuster

(mathematics, computing) A problem in the analysis of multidimensional systems caused by the sparse nature of the available data.


dumb pipe

(networking) In the context of mobile network operators, a simple network that, with a high enough bandwidth to transfer bytes between a customer's device and the Internet without the need to prioritize content, can afford to be completely neutral with regard to the services and applications the customer accesses.


stablecoin

Several other companies have recently introduced so-called stablecoins, linked to the value of the dollar. JPMorgan Chase even said it was experimenting with the concept last month.

2019 February 28, Nathaniel Popper, Mike Isaac, “Facebook and Telegram Are Hoping to Succeed Where Bitcoin Failed”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

The first attempt to scale a stablecoin came from Maker. At the time of writing, there are about half a billion dollars worth of cryptocurrency tied up as collateral for this stablecoin—the Dai—whose value is pegged to the US dollar.

2020, David Birch, The Currency Cold War, London Publishing Partnership, page 98

But the meltdown gathered momentum this week when TerraUSD, a stablecoin, imploded. Stablecoins, which are meant to be a more reliable means of exchange, are typically pegged to a stable asset such as the U.S. dollar and are intended not to fluctuate in value.

2022 May 12, David Yaffe-Bellany, Erin Griffith, Ephrat Livni, “Cryptocurrencies Melt Down in a ‘Perfect Storm’ of Fear and Panic”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

A cryptocurrency with price stability by design, often pegged to a stable asset such as the US dollar.


safe navigation operator

en-noun

safe navigation operator (plural safe navigation operators)

One operator I haven't talked about yet is the safe navigation operator (?.). By preceding a dot with a question mark, you can safely navigate to methods or properties of an object even if that object is null.

2009, Bashar Jawad, Groovy and Grails Recipes, page 57

The safe navigation operator (?.) provides navigation on the nested properties without getting any exception when a null value is evaluated from any of the properties iterated.

2015, Mert Caliskan, Kenan Sevindik, Beginning Spring, page 278

C# 6 introduced a cascading nulls operator, also called the null-conditional operator and the safe navigation operator.

2017, Gary McLean Hall, Adaptive Code: Agile coding with design patterns and SOLID principles

(programming) A binary operator that returns its second argument, unless the first argument is null, in which case it returns null; used to simplify code that would otherwise need multiple explicit checks for nullity.


uniquification

As shown in Figure 1, flex-cell based optimization process can invoke a uniquification process to minimize the number of functionally unique flexcells created during optimization of a given design. In the context of flexcell synthesis, uniquification focuses on identifying the minimum number of unique flex-cells required for optimization, and it is different from the “uniquify” command found in synthesis tools.

2007, David Chinnery, Kurt Keutzer, Closing the Gap Between ASIC & Custom: Tools and Techniques for High-Performance ASIC Design

(computing) The state of being uniquified.


Platt scaling

probability distribution
probability distribution

(machine learning) A technique for transforming the outputs of a classification model into a probability distribution over classes, based on a logistic regression model.


Mode X

(computer graphics, historical) A non-standard display mode of VGA graphics hardware, having a resolution of 320 × 240 square pixels.


support vector machine

support vector machine (plural support vector machines)

(machine learning) A supervised learning model with associated algorithms that analyse data used for classification and regression analysis.


artifacted

(computer graphics, signal processing) Having artifacts.


real-time attack

real-time attack (countable and uncountable, plural real-time attacks)

(video games, speedrunning) A non-tool-assisted speedrun of a game that is timed using a separate timer from that of any in-game timer.

(video games, speedrunning) The timing method itself used to time such speedruns.


witkey

witkey (countable and uncountable, plural witkeys)

Originated in China in 2005. Blend of wisdom + key, originally the name of a website.

(Internet) A Web-based system whereby users can exchange and purchase services and information, and share knowledge and experience, in order to save time and money.


wypipo

Phonetic spelling of “white people” in African American Vernacular English.

“@PaulCantor: @Me you just need one rich white guy to believe you will be the one who makes him cool, and you're set.” WHERE U AT WYPIPO

2013 October 6, THE KID MERO 🇩🇴, “THE KID MERO 🇩🇴 on Twitter”, in Twitter, archived from the original on 2018-01-06

For now, let's take a step into Black History Month since that is the only time wypipo generally give two Fun-Dip sticks and a lick about Black history.

2017 February 1, Aaryn Belfer, “Backwards & In High Heels: Rounding up my cousins”, in San Diego CityBeat

However, the Powhatan people told the Jamestonians that Matoaka's name was"Pocohontas," which loosely translates to "stolen by thieving-ass wypipo" (my Powhatan is a little rusty).

2017 November 30, Michael Harriot, Why Calling Elizabeth Warren "Pocohontas" Is Racist, Explained, in San Bernardino American Newspaper, volume 48, number 32

Wypipo: Quit making excuses. Work hard. Pull yourself up by your bootstraps. Go to college. No one's just going to hand opportunities to you.
Also wypipo: Wow, you applied to 20 colleges? And got into all of them? How obnoxious.

2018 April 19, Anne Branigin, Black Teen Who Won Full ride to 20 Colleges Wants Apology From Reporter Who Called His Effort "Obnoxious", in San Bernardino American Newspaper, volume 48, number 52, front page

MAGA hat wearing, confederate flag waving, tiki torch bearing wypipo.

2019 September 4, Ted Neill, “Reaper Moon”, in Race War in the Post Apocalypse, page 6

Because wypipo stay annoying, during his victory speech, McConnell gave a shout out to King and his “I Have a Dream” speech, aka literally the only MLK speech that exists as far as white conservatives are concerned.

2020 November 5, Zack Linly, “Mitch McConnell Referenced Martin Luther King Jr. in His Victory Speech. MLK's Family Graciously Invite Him to STFU”, in The Root

(slang, African-American Vernacular, derogatory, usually offensive) White people.


retval

(programming) Abbreviation of return value.


drive letter

(computing) An alphabetical identifier assigned to a drive or volume on MS-DOS or Windows.


compspec

The complete command allows you provide a completion specification, or compspec, for individual commands.

2006, Arnold Robbins, Bash Quick Reference

(computing, shell) Abbreviation of completion specification, the file read by a shell that allows to tab-complete arguments for specific commands.


SSDL

The SOAP Service Description Language (SSDL) [20] describes a message exchange from the point of view of a single service...

2008, Nitzsche J. et al.: WSDL 2.0 message exchange patterns: limitations and opportunities, page 1

In [13], Parastatidis and Webber propose SSDL (SOAP Service Description Language) as a language to describe Web services...

2008, Rosenberg et al.: Integrated metadata support for web service runtimes, page 1

2005, Parastatidis et al.: The SOAP Service Description Language (SSDL) is a SOAP-centric contract definition language for Web Services, abstract:

SOAP Service Description Language
w:SOAP Service Description Language

(computer languages, databases) Initialism of SOAP Service Description Language.

2007, Oh & Won: Designing an architecture for social semantic digital libraries (SSDL), title:

2010, Alotaibi: Semantic web technologies for digital libraries: from libraries to social semantic digital libraries (SSDL), over semantic digital libraries (SDL), title:

Oh and Won (2007) defined the Social Semantic Digital Library (SSDL) as consisting of an ontology system and supporting user participation and collaboration

2017, Noh: A study on next-generation digital library using context-awareness technology, page 1

social semantic digital library
social semantic digital library#English

(computer science) Initialism of social semantic digital library.


leaning toothpick syndrome

leaning toothpick syndrome (uncountable)

Introduced in the official Perl documentation, in reference to the shape of the backslash character.

(programming) The situation in which a quoted string expression becomes difficult to read because it contains a large number of escape characters, usually backslashes, to avoid delimiter collision.


HHVM

(computing) Initialism of HipHop Virtual Machine.


Dirty Dozen

A team of twelve IBM employees, formed in 1980, who created the first IBM PC in 1981.


Wikian

(dated) A person who contributes to the wiki farm Wikia (now called Fandom since 2016), especially a regular contributor versed in the ways of the site.


gold farm

en-verb

gold farm (third-person singular simple present gold farms, present participle gold farming, simple past and past participle gold farmed)

gold farms (present singular third-person)
gold farming (participle present)
gold farmed (participle past)
gold farmed (past)

massively multiplayer online games
massively multiplayer online games

(rare, online gaming) To participate in gold farming; to farm/grind for in-game currency (gold in many games) and items in massively multiplayer online games for for-profit resale outside of the game.


server farm

(networking) A collection of computer servers that is usually maintained by an organization to supply server functionality far beyond the capability of a single machine.


hex edit

hex edit (third-person singular simple present hex edits, present participle hex editing, simple past and past participle hex edited)

hex edits (present singular third-person)
hex editing (participle present)
hex edited (participle past)
hex edited (past)

(computing) To manipulate the fundamental binary data that constitutes a computer file using a hex editor, which displays the data in hexadecimal format.


wiki farm

Soon after, in 2007, Wikidot Inc. was incorporated in the state of Delaware. Since that time it has grown into the world's third‒largest wiki farm, with almost half a million users running 120,000 sites and serving about 40M unique visitors per year.

2012, Roger McHaney, The New Digital Shoreline: How Web 2.0 and Millennials Are Revolutionizing Higher Education

(Internet) A type of server farm that offers users tools to simplify the creation and development of individual, independent wikis.


wikian

For quotations using this term, see Citations:wikian.

(rare) A contributor to any wiki or any number of wikis.


Insta

These are the slaves to technology: the Candy Crushers, the Facebook fanatics, the Insta-idlers, the Snapchat servants and Twitter twiddlers who spend every spare minute absorbed by their screens.

2018, Jack Lewis, The Science of Sin: Why We Do The Things We Know We Shouldn’t, Bloomsbury Sigma

(informal, chiefly text messaging, Internet slang) Clipping of Instagram.


Insta

Insta (third-person singular simple present Instas or Insta's, present participle Insta-ing or Insta'ing, simple past and past participle Insta-ed or Insta'ed)

Instas (present singular third-person)
Insta's (present singular third-person)
Insta-ing (participle present)
Insta'ing (participle present)
Insta-ed (participle past)
Insta-ed (past)
Insta'ed (participle past)
Insta'ed (past)

Patrick Dempsey, who played Dr. Derek Shepherd for 11 seasons, Insta-ed a close-up of his masked face, captioning it with one of his catchphrases. "It’s a Beautiful Day to Save Lives," he wrote. "#WearAMask."

2020 July 23, Jelisa Castrodale, “‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Gears Up for Pandemic Storyline in Upcoming 60,000th Season”, in Vice


gaming console

video game console
video game console#English

(video games) Synonym of video game console


clean coder

(programming) A programmer who writes generally clean code.


memory cell

(computing) A fundamental block of computer memory.


pseudolocalization

software engineering
software engineering

(software engineering) The testing of software for internationalization compliance using modified versions of the original text (with the use of foreign script etc.) rather than genuine translations.


bus factor

From the phrase “get hit by a bus” as an informal way to describe a person suddenly becoming unavailable.

It's also important to strengthen what we call the bus factor of your project. Bus factor (noun): the number of people that need to get hit by a bus before your project is completely doomed. What's your team's bus factor?

2012, Brian W. Fitzpatrick, Ben Collins-Sussman, Team Geek: A Software Developer's Guide to Working Well with Others, "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", page 7

(business, originally software engineering) A measurement of the risk of losing team members, in terms of information and abilities no longer available to the team.


Nintendrone

(slang, derogatory, video games) A slavish supporter of Nintendo's video games or consoles; a Nintendo fanboy


loot box

Admittedly, the loot boxes first of all monetize video games, by reinforcing the pay-to-win logic, but they also contribute to their gamblification (Johnson 2018), […]

2021, Stéphane Le Lay, Emmanuelle Savignac, Jean Frances, Pierre Lénel, editors, The Gamification of Society, volume 2, John Wiley & Sons, page 107

(video games) A consumable virtual item, often in the shape of a box or another container, that gives a player a random selection of in-game items.

caixes de botí

a consumable virtual item that gives a player a random selection of in-game items


thunker

And 32-bit Windows applications require the bundled MetaWare Applications Development Kit (ADK), a 32-to-16 bit Windows thunker similar to but predating the Microsoft Win32s system.

1995, Personal Computer Magazine, volume 14, numbers 7-8, page 222

There were no 32-bit scanner drivers or TWAIN modules, none were forthcoming from Microsoft […] Then along came the TWAIN_32 standard of the universal thunker.

1996, Deke McClelland, Robert Phillips, Photoshop 3 for Windows 95 Bible, page 721

(programming) A software mechanism that thunks.


ATH

(stock market and cryptocurrencies trading) Initialism of all-time high, referring to the value of an asset.


murder simulator

en-noun

murder simulator (plural murder simulators)

(derogatory) A graphic action video game that features killing as an important component.


MMP

MMP (countable and uncountable, plural MMPs)

An MMP can easily become an impossible-to-complete reality simulator.

2003, Jessica Mulligan, Bridgette Patrovsky, Developing Online Games: An Insider's Guide, page 78

Connections between players in MMP games are usually made through in-game mechanisms such as social organizations, guilds, noble houses, political parties, and so on.

2004, Munindar P. Singh, The Practical Handbook of Internet Computing, page 249

Women tend to look for the emotional draw of a game, which depends on a good storyline, or a complex plot, or a deeper experience with the characters—things male gamers don't necessarily seem to need or want. Games that provide opportunities to connect to other players, that have a social component, or that foster cooperation among the characters or players—all reasons why women are so fond of massive multiplayer (MMP) games—are particularly appealing.

2010, David Shippy, Mickie Phipps, The Race For A New Game Machine

massively multiplayer online game#English

(online gaming) Initialism of massive multiplayer.

(Internet marketing) Initialism of mobile measurement partner.


stochastic terrorism

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-stochastic terrorism.wav

Coined by Gordon Woo. stochastic + terrorism

All of this fits with what the anonymous blogger G2G had to say in his expanded definition of stochastic terrorism: “you heat up the waters and stir the pot, knowing full well that sooner or later a lone wolf will pop up and do the deed. The fact that it will happen is as predictable as the fact that a heated pot of water will eventually boil. But the exact time and place of each incident will remain as random as the appearance of the first bubbles in the boiling pot."
2021 October, Molly Amman, J. Reid Meloy, “Stochastic Terrorism: A Linguistic and Psychological Analysis”, in Perspectives on Terrorism, →ISSN, page 3:
How does stochastic terrorism unfold in the course of real-world events? We propose a practical description of stochastic terrorism as an interactive process between the originator of a message, its amplifiers, and one of more ultimate receivers.
2023, Will Bunch, “A MAGA gunman in New Mexico and ‘the end of politics’ in America”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Trump is playing a dangerous game, and there is a name for it: Stochastic terrorism. The cries for vengeance and violent retribution from the leader of the MAGA movement aren’t a message to anyone in specific but rather a bat signal to everyone who can hear his voice, whether it’s armed and troubled young men like Martinez or the Jacksonville gunman, or the angry mob that responded on Jan. 6, 2021, after Trump tweeted, “Will be wild!”

2017, Clayton Delery, Out for Queer Blood

(neologism, sociology, social media) The use of mass public communication, usually against a particular individual or group, which

Incites or inspires acts of terrorism which are statistically probable but happen seemingly at random,

The joining of the two words, stochastic and terrorism, is originally attributable to machematician and catastrophist Gordon Woo, who used the term to suggest a quantifiable relationship between seemingly random acts of terrorism and the goal of perpetuating fear through mass media's coverage of the violence.

Perpetuates fear through coverage of seemingly random acts of terrorism.


subapplication

(computing) An application making up part of a larger application.


ESOP

European Symposium on Programming
w:European Symposium on Programming

(computer science) Initialism of European Symposium on Programming.


e-signature

(Internet) Data used by a signatory to sign something electronically. It may involve cryptography or may simply be a name typed into a document.


UCS

Universal Coded Character Set
w:Universal Coded Character Set

(computing) Initialism of Universal Coded Character Set, a set of characters standardized in ISO 10646.


nothing-up-my-sleeve number

nothing-up-my-sleeve number (plural nothing-up-my-sleeve numbers)

In reference to magic tricks in which the performer may have something concealed in a sleeve (or may demonstrate to the audience that they do not).

The key schedule, however, expanding the key using an essentially one-way method, is more complex, with the binary expansions of both e and the golden ratio of "nothing up my sleeve numbers".

2014 May 31, Mr. Ajay Bhaisare, “Data Protection Outsourcing of Cloud Data to Maintain Trust between Cloud Service and Data Owner Using RC5 Algorithm”, in IJCSMC, volume 3, number 5, page 608

Anyway, they make the same point: “The BADA55-VPR curves illustrate the fact that 'verifiably pseudorandom' curves with 'systematic' seeds generated from 'nothing-up-my-sleeve numbers' also do not stop the attacker from generating a curve with a one-in-a-million weakness.”

(cryptography) A number which, by its construction, is above suspicion of having hidden properties; used in creating cryptographic functions such as hashes and ciphers.


Han unification

(computing) The assignment of single codepoints to various variant forms of Han characters in Unicode.


Mii

Blend of Wii + me. First introduced on the Wii, which was released in November 2006.

(video games) A customizable avatar used on several Nintendo video game consoles and mobile applications.


bang path

(computing) An early form of e-mail address with the components separated by exclamation marks, naming the sequence of networked computers that the mail should be routed through.


readtable

(programming) In Lisp and related languages, a data structure specifying how text characters are to be interpreted syntactically.


Haskeller

Relatively advanced Haskellers might find the exports of default Prelude lacking or even devastating: encouraging the use of String, asynchronous exceptions (error), and partial functions.

2016, Samuli Thomasson, Haskell High Performance Programming, Packt Publishing Ltd, page 363

(programming) A person who programs in Haskell.


OOCSS

Where OOCSS and SMACSS can be seen as a more of frameworks for thinking about structured CSS combined with some handy rules of thumb, BEM is a much more rigid system for how to author and name your styles.

2016, Andy Budd, Emil Björklund, CSS Mastery, Apress, page 387

(web design) Initialism of Object-oriented CSS.


@ party

From the @ symbol used in e-mail addresses.

Hi! An @ party will be held in Room 3121 at Balticon on Saturday night, starting at 10 PM and going for an as-yet undetermined while. The @ party is hosted by Digital Express Group, purveyors of that mightiest of refreshments, digital espresso!

1992, Richard L. Butler, “An @ party at Balticon, Room 3121, hurrah...”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet)

I've been to a few @ parties- it's very simple. You look at the party board, and show up at the appropriate place and time. Usually/often someone at the door will ask you for your email address (just to make sure you aren't some kind of clueless geek, I guess), and you go on in and meet net.people.

1993, Binky, “@ Party?”, in alt.fandom.cons (Usenet)

(Internet, historical) An informal private party held as part of a convention, giving Internet users the chance to meet in person.


mailstorm

(computing, informal) A large influx of email.


e-educator

An educator who makes use of computer technology.


soundiness

Soundiness is in fact what is meant in many papers that claim to describe a sound analysis.

2015 February, Benjamin Livshits, Manu Sridharan, Yannis Smaragdakis, Ondřej Lhotȧk, J. Nelson Amaral, Bor-Yuh Evan Chang, Samuel Z. Guyer, Uday P. Khedker, Anders Møller, Dimitrios Vardoulakis, “In defense of soundiness: a manifesto”, in Communications of the ACM, volume 58, number 2

While this lack of soundness and precision can be viewed as a deficiency, we argue that instead – in the spirit of “soundiness” [23] – it is a strength.

2016 February, Ahmet Salih Buyukkayhan, Kaan Onarlioglu, William K Robertson, Engin Kirda, “CrossFire: An Analysis of Firefox Extension-Reuse Vulnerabilities”, in Proceedings of the ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)

JayHorn is implemented in the spirit of soundiness [14].

2016, Swarat Chaudhuri, Azadeh Farzan, Computer Aided Verification: 28th International Conference, CAV 2016

(software engineering) A state of being mostly sound; the condition of being rigorously sound in all but some well-defined areas; a best approximation of soundness in an environment where absolute soundness or proof of soundness is not feasible.


integration testing

/ɪntəˈɡɹeɪʃən tɛstɪŋ/

(software) the phase in software testing that occurs after unit testing and before validation testing, where individual software modules are combined and tested as a group.


prototype-oriented programming

(programming) A programming paradigm that encapsulates states and operations inside "prototypes" to design applications and computer programs.

prototyporientierte Programmierung

programming paradigm that uses prototypes to design application and computer programs


soundy

en-adj

soundy (comparative more soundy, superlative most soundy)

more soundy (comparative)
most soundy (superlative)

We draw a distinction between analyses that are soundy—mostly sound, with specific, well-identified unsound choices—and analyses that do not concern themselves with soundness.

There is a recent community initiative [23] calling for the development of soundy analysis to handle “hard” language features (such as reflection).

2015 September, Yue Li, Tian Tan, Jingling Xue, “Effective soundness-guided reflection analysis”, in International On Static Analysis

In this context, perhaps one can only hope for a soundy static analysis [21]: common features should be handled soundly and more esoteric ones should be under-approximated.

2016, Yan Wang, Hailong Zhang, Atanas Rountev, “On the unsoundness of static analysis for android guis”, in Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on State of the Art in Program Analysis

(software engineering) Mostly sound; sound in all but a few well-defined areas.


joyport

With Bracy's, especially if you're using the Apple system, getting the joyports to work and the initial data entered correctly can be difficult.

1987, Cognitive Rehabilitation, volume 5, page 14

One or more joyports actually exist as an extra option on many floppy controller cards and I/O cards.

1994, André LaMothe, Teach Yourself Game Programming in 21 Days, page 386

(computing) A port for connecting a joystick.


multiwindowing

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface) The ability to switch between multiple open windows.


blast processing

(informal, video games, now humorous) The processing capabilities of the Sega Genesis video game console.


return value

(computing) The output of a program or subroutine, passed back to the context where it was called; a retval.


GDPR

General Data Protection Regulation
w:General Data Protection Regulation

European Economic Area
European Economic Area

(European Union law) Initialism of General Data Protection Regulation: a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy in the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA).

General Data Protection Regulation

2018 EU regulation concerning personal data

Obecné nařízení o ochraně osobních údajů


web development

The work involved in developing a web site for the Internet or an intranet.