subcookie

(computing, Internet, rare) A cookie-like piece of data stored with others in a single cookie (so as to circumvent restrictions on the number of cookies a single web site may create).


collaborative client

en-noun

collaborative client (plural collaborative clients)

(rare, computing) A piece of software that allows a computer to run or link to another application on the Internet.


dreamware

[…] the author is surprised to find so few imaging projects actually using CD-ROM. He attributes this to the "wait and see" attitude of potential users who are holding out for new "dreamware" products which do not exist yet.

1989, Visual Resources Association, Bulletin

Independently pursuing his interest in metasoftware, Vinci has defined several basic modules and created some actual models of his dreamware.

1989, Information Access Company, Datamation

You could create problems for your company if you downplay current products and hype the dreamware that may never become reality.

1999, Jessica Keyes, Internet Management

(computing, rare) Speculative software or hardware products that may never reach fruition; vapourware.


zeroary

(computing, mathematics, nonstandard) Nullary.


trit

Blend of trinary + digit, formed in analogy to bit from binary digit.

For example, consider storing trits (recall Section 2.6.4), which take values in {0, 1, 2}. If we use 2 bits per value, then an array A[1, n] of trits requires 2n bits.

2016, Gonzalo Navarro, Compact Data Structures, Cambridge University Press, page 45

(computing) The ternary equivalent of a bit; a fundamental unit of information that may take any of three distinct states.


SWF

(file format): SWF originated as an abbreviation for Shockwave Flash. This usage was changed to the backronym Small Web Format to eliminate confusion with a different technology, Shockwave, from which SWF derived. There is no official resolution to the initialism SWF by Adobe.

Norway's SWF sells Jardine stake over ‘severe environmental damage’ risks [title]

2024 March 2, A. Anatha Lakshmi, William Langley, Mercedes Ruehl, “Norway's SWF sells Jardine stake over ‘severe environmental damage’ risks”, in FT Weekend, Companies & Markets, page 13

sovereign wealth fund
sovereign wealth fund#English

(finance) Initialism of sovereign wealth fund.

On the Web, linking to a SWF directly is not a very attractive option. You can’t control the content around the SWF or the title of the page in the browser title area. It’s also difficult to add content that’s friendly to search engines, and it’s impossible to detect a Flash version or provide alternate content for people with special needs. For these reasons, most developers choose to embed their SWFs in an HTML page for their end users.

2008, Chris Allen, Wade Arnold, Aral Balkan, Nicolas Cannasse, John Grden, Moses Gunesch, Marc Hughes, R. Jon MacDonald, Andy Zupko, The Essential Guide to Open Source Flash Development, Berkeley, Calif.: Friends of Ed, Apress, page 131

A SWF file, or simply “a SWF,” is an efficient, compressed binary file that can contain graphics, animation, text, bitmaps, sounds, video, and even arbitrary data. […] When compiling AIR apps, an .air file is generated, but even this is a package that contains SWFs for its executable ActionScript code.

2010, Roger Braunstein, ActionScript® 3.0 Bible, 2nd edition, Indianapolis, Ind.: Wiley Publishing, Inc., page 8

When you run a SWF using Flash Player on your desktop, it loads and runs the SWF. Well, of course, why wouldn't it? When you run a SWF in a browser, this isn't always the case, though. Sometimes, browsers cache SWFs, meaning that they save a copy locally and then load that copy—rather than the online version—the next time you request it.

2010 December, Michael James Williams, “Introduction”, in Facebook Graph API Development with Flash, Birmingham: Packt Publishing Ltd

(computing) A file encoded in the defunct Adobe Flash file format SWF.


SWF

(software) Initialism of Spring Web Flow.

(software, historical) Initialism of Shockwave Flash.


service pack

(computing) A collection of software patches or upgrades offered as a single package with an installer.


bitflip

(computing) The switching of a bit's value (from 1 to 0, or vice versa).


qubyte

Blend of quantum + byte, generalizing the prefix qu-, after qubit.

(quantum computing) A quantum byte, one composed of eight qubits.


texture map

(computer graphics) A matrix of data, representing texture, added to a polygon or polyhedron in the process of texture mapping


texture map

en-verb

texture map (third-person singular simple present texture maps, present participle texture mapping, simple past and past participle texture mapped)

texture maps (present singular third-person)
texture mapping (participle present)
texture mapped (participle past)
texture mapped (past)

(computer graphics) To map a texture to a three-dimensional model.


banhammer

(Internet slang, often humorous) The power of a sysop to block a user from participating in an online community.


banhammer

banhammer (third-person singular simple present banhammers, present participle banhammering, simple past and past participle banhammered)

banhammers (present singular third-person)
banhammering (participle present)
banhammered (participle past)
banhammered (past)

(Internet slang, transitive) To block a user from participating in an online community.


scan line

(computing) A single row of pixels in a raster graphics image.


macroprogramming

(computing) The creation of macros and macroinstructions, and the writing of programs using them.


permabanned

(Internet, slang) Permanently banned from using a web site.


RAD

en-noun

RAD (countable and uncountable, plural RADs)

(computing, uncountable) Initialism of rapid application development.


postcondition

(programming) A condition that must be met immediately after execution of some piece of code.


initializer

Since C++11, the auto keyword is used to tell the compiler to deduce the actual type of a variable that is being declared from its initializer.

2017, Wisnu Anggoro, Learning C++ Functional Programming, page 8

(programming) A routine that prepares something for use.


noninterrupt

(computing) That is not an interrupt routine.


race hazard

(electronics, computing) A race condition.


MVC

software architecture
software architecture

architectural pattern
architectural pattern#English

(software architecture) Initialism of model-view-controller (an architectural pattern used in software development.)


program counter

program counter (plural program counters)

(computing) A register that stores the address of the current (or next) instruction to be carried out by the processor.


hash code

(computing) The code or value generated by a hash function to represent some piece of data.


livelock

livelock (countable and uncountable, plural livelocks)

(ca. 1971) live + lock; punning antonym for deadlock.

However, this can lead to livelock—the optimistic analog of indefinite blocking in which methods continuously spin without making any further progress.

2000, Douglas Lea, Concurrent Programming in Java, Addison-Wesley Professional, page 193

A process is considered to be in a state of livelock when thread code is still executing, but two or more threads are in a never-ending cycle with each other and no useful work is being done.

2003, Mark Pearce, Comprehensive VB .NET Debugging, page 439

(computing) A state resembling deadlock in which various computational processes are constantly changing but never reach a point where any of them can proceed.


livelock

en-verb

livelock (third-person singular simple present livelocks, present participle livelocking, simple past and past participle livelocked)

livelocks (present singular third-person)
livelocking (participle present)
livelocked (participle past)
livelocked (past)

(computing) To enter a state of livelock.


pictel

By the time the scan is completed, the ACTA numbers of all the pictels have been computed and are stored in the computer's memory.

1975, Biosciences Communications, page 284

Pseudo-color computer graphics displays identify the color of each pictel by a three-dimensional vector whose nonnegative elements specify the relative intensities of the three primary colors[…]

1978, Derek Allan Holton, Jennifer Seberry, Combinatorial mathematics: proceedings


race condition

A race condition in writing my guest book file meant that the last person to sign wiped out all previous signatures.

A race condition is usually when multiple processes are accessing data that is shared among them, but the correct outcome depends on the execution order of the processes.

2004, W. Richard Stevens, Bill Fenner, Andrew M. Rudoff, UNIX Network Programming: The sockets networking API, Addison-Wesley Professional, page 538

(electronics, computing) A flaw in a system or process whereby the output or result is unexpectedly and critically dependent on the sequence or timing of other events.


interthread

interthread communication


middlebox

(computing, networking, Internet) A device in the Internet that provides transport policy enforcement, such as a firewall.


TCB

trusted computing base
w:Trusted computing base

(computing) Initialism of trusted computing base.


grammarless

A few languages are either virtually grammarless, like Chinese, or have few supplementary morphemes grouped in form-classes, like English or French.

1947, Melville Jacobs, Bernhard Joseph Stern, Outline of anthropology

2001, F A Grootjen, Relational Indexing Using a Grammarless Parser:

(linguistics, computing theory) Without grammar or a grammar.


shitware

(computing, derogatory, vulgar) Software of exceptionally poor quality.


mouseless

(computing) Without the use of a mouse (input device).


multibit

(computing) Contained in more than one bit.


uncook

uncook (third-person singular simple present uncooks, present participle uncooking, simple past and past participle uncooked)

uncooks (present singular third-person)
uncooking (participle present)
uncooked (participle past)
uncooked (past)

Hi all! I have developed a freeware utility to uncook MP3's...

1999, y2kilroy, “New Freeware Utility to uncook mp3's!”, in alt.music.mp3 (Usenet)

If you "uncook" a file that isn't "cooked" you will just mess it up (and I don't know of any way to fix it then) - so uncooking should be used with caution (I'd suggest never over-writing the original file).

2000, Xorys, “Creating audio CD from mp3 files”, in alt.music.mp3 (Usenet)

(computing, slang, transitive) To repair (an MP3 audio file) that has been damaged ("cooked") by being converted through a text format and having line breaks applied to it.


deskside

(computing) A computer intended to be placed alongside a desk, etc. (contrasted with the smaller desktop models).


uncastable

en-adj

uncastable (comparative more uncastable, superlative most uncastable)

more uncastable (comparative)
most uncastable (superlative)

They're strongly typed, uncastable pointers […]

2000, Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant, Programming Perl

(computing, programming) That cannot be cast (converted to other data types).


unflag

en-verb

unflag (third-person singular simple present unflags, present participle unflagging, simple past and past participle unflagged)

unflags (present singular third-person)
unflagging (participle present)
unflagged (participle past)
unflagged (past)

A message that has been unflagged will no longer be displayed at the top of your e-mail inbox.

(computing, transitive) To remove a flag from.


clickstream

“My clickstream data is sensitive information,” she told Mr. Zaneis, “and it belongs to me.”

2007 May 12, Dan Mitchell, quoting Kaliya Hamlin, “Online Ads vs. Privacy”, in New York Times

Clickstream analytics are usually monitored on an aggregate basis. Server-based clickstream analysis provides valuable insight into visitor behavior. For instance, by learning which paths users most frequently take on a site and which routes lead to sales, you can make changes in content and calls to action[…]

2017, Jan Zimmerman, Deborah Ng, Social Media Marketing All-in-One For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons

(computing, marketing) A profile of a user's activity in a web browser or other software, based on what is clicked.


maximax

The first criterion is the Hurwicz criterion, often referred to the maximax criterion. […] the decision-maker is always optimistic and attempts to maximize profits by a go-for-broke strategy.

2009, Harold Kerzner, Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling, Tenth Edition, John Wiley and Sons, page 749

(economics, computer science, decision theory) A strategy or algorithm that seeks to maximize the maximum possible result (that is, that prefers the alternative with the chance of the best possible outcome, even if its expected outcome and its worst possible outcome are worse than other alternatives); often used attributively, as "maximax strategy", "maximax approach", and so on.


atomic authorization

en-noun

atomic authorization (countable and uncountable, plural atomic authorizations)

(cryptography) (A digitally signed document containing) published rights with cryptographically verifiable integrity, secured independently of the applications that utilize them and entities to which they apply.


unbooted

(computing, rare) Not having been booted.


earcon

(computing, broadcasting) A brief, distinctive sound used to represent a specific item or event.


demountable

en-adj

demountable (comparative more demountable, superlative most demountable)

more demountable (comparative)
most demountable (superlative)

(computing, of a hard drive, dated) Designed to be removed from the read mechanism.


refreshable

(computing, electronics) That can be refreshed (updated).


code-behind

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

(computing, programming) A technique in object-oriented programming in which the visual and back-end source code are stored in separate files, allowing designers and programmers to work independently. Code-behind is a technique used in Microsoft programming platforms, including ASP.NET and XAML, where the practice is facilitated by separating the visual and code aspects through the use of partial classes.


Zip disk

(computing) A disk of the kind that can be read and written by a Zip drive.


autoload

en-verb

autoload (third-person singular simple present autoloads, present participle autoloading, simple past and past participle autoloaded)

autoloads (present singular third-person)
autoloading (participle present)
autoloaded (participle past)
autoloaded (past)


web design

1996, Ruffin Prevost, The Web Design Style Guide: How to Create a Smash Hit Web Site, title

Still others are firms already established in other creative sectors, which offer Web design services to their clients as part of their portfolio of services.

2000, Birgitte Andersen, Knowledge and Innovation in the New Service Economy, page 72

As relatively new as responsive web design is to us designers, it's even newer and often completely unfamiliar to our clients, which means we need to take every opportunity to weave in the concept.

2015, Dan Rose, Responsive Web Design with Adobe Photoshop, page 85

The trade of a web designer; the creation of web pages, especially in terms of layout and presentation rather than functionality.


address bar

This trick is quite practical; since almost everyone keeps the address bar visible, being able to search from it doesn't add any gunk to your browser window […]

2006, Sarah Milstein, J. D. Biersdorfer, Matthew MacDonald, Google: the missing manual

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

uniform resource identifier
uniform resource identifier

(computing, graphical user interface) A bar in a web browser that displays the address (uniform resource identifier) of the page or resource being displayed.


autoloading

(programming) Capability of loading and linking portions of a program from mass storage automatically when needed.


mutex

Contraction of mutually exclusive or mutual exclusion.

The ability to set a maximum waiting time provides another reason why in some circumstances, you might prefer to use a mutex rather than a lock statement.

2004, Mark Schmidt, Simon Robinson, Microsoft Visual C# .NET 2003, Sams Publishing, page 632

(programming) An object in a program that serves as a lock, used to negotiate mutual exclusion among threads.


mutex

mutex (third-person singular simple present mutexes, present participle mutexing, simple past and past participle mutexed)

mutexes (present singular third-person)
mutexing (participle present)
mutexed (participle past)
mutexed (past)

Or you can have a single pipe that is mutexed so each thread can only write to the pipe exclusively. Alternatively, you can have each thread put the finished fd in a globally mutexed list.

2002, Steve Connet, “Re: best way to interrupt a select() call in a (POSIX) thread?”, in comp.programming.threads (Usenet)

(programming, transitive) To apply a mutex to.


multiwindow

(computing, graphical user interface) Involving or permitting multiple windows at the same time.


restripe

restripe (third-person singular simple present restripes, present participle restriping, simple past and past participle restriped)

restripes (present singular third-person)
restriping (participle present)
restriped (participle past)
restriped (past)

In most cases, reduced application performance is preferable to the alternative of stopping applications entirely to move or restripe data.

2001, Richard Barker, Paul Massiglia, Storage area network essentials, page 213

(computing, RAID) To change the manner in which data is laid out across multiple disks.


symbolic link

(computing, in operating systems derived from Unix) A file that contains a reference to another file or directory and serves as a shortcut to it.

simbola ligilo

computing: a file that contains a reference to another file or directory and serves as a shortcut to it


IVT

(computing) Initialism of interrupt vector table.


IDT

en-noun

IDT (countable and uncountable, plural IDTs)

intelligent design
intelligent design#English

(programming, uncountable) Initialism of intelligent design theory.

(programming, countable) Initialism of interrupt descriptor table.


ISR

ISR (countable and uncountable, plural ISRs)

This function registers an interrupt service routine (ISR) with the kernel

(countable, software) Initialism of interrupt service routine.


fanvid

(fandom slang, chiefly Internet) A fan-made video consisting of clips from a film or television series, usually set to music.


trivial functional dependency

trivial functional dependency (plural trivial functional dependencies)

trivial functional dependencies (plural)

functional dependency
functional dependency

(computing, database normalization) A functional dependency of an attribute on a superset of itself.


functional dependency

functional dependency (plural functional dependencies)

(database normalization) Given a relation R and two sets of attributes X,Y⊆R, a constraint X→Y where each X value in R is associated with precisely one Y value in R.

函數依賴

constraint between two sets of attributes in a relation


multiarchitecture

(computing) Involving more than one architecture.


CBR

case-based reasoning
case-based reasoning#English

(computing) Initialism of case-based reasoning.

Coordinate term: VBR

(computing) Initialism of constant bitrate.


bloglike

en-adj

bloglike (comparative more bloglike, superlative most bloglike)

more bloglike (comparative)
most bloglike (superlative)

Resembling or characteristic of a weblog.


thumb drive

(computing) A small electronic device used to store digital data, more portable and robust than a hard drive.


pen drive

→ Portuguese: pen-drive, pen

A trademark for flash drives owned by Phison Electronics Corporation (US).

(computing) A small electronic device used to store digital data, more portable and robust than a hard drive; a flash drive.

Phison Electronics Corporation
en:pen drive


jobname

This command is used to stop (and subsequently to restart) a running task identified by its jobname.

1973, IBM technical disclosure bulletin: Volume 16, Issue 4, page 1093

The user must use jobnames while performing this analysis; otherwise, this command will fail.

2003, Erdogan Madenci, Ibrahim Guven, Bahattin Kilic, Fatigue Life Prediction of Solder Joints in Electronic Packages with ANSYS, page 149

(computing) The identifier assigned to a job by an operating system.


cybercop

(Internet, slang, derogatory) A user who attempts to enforce netiquette or other standards.


ICQer

The problem, from a marketing standpoint, is the typical ICQer's anti-establishment ethos.

1999, Adweek, volume 40, numbers 1-8, page 42

Doing something that should be as simple as making yourself invisible to other ICQers requires leaping through hoops and balancing flaming torches.

2005, Peter Weverka, The everyday Internet all-in-one desk reference for dummies

2007?, Y K Singh, T K Sharma, Brijesh Upadhya, Education Technology: Teaching Learning
White Pages / Let you search for ICQers based on several criteria like name, e-mail, age, gender, language, interests, location, organization, etc.

(Internet) A user of the ICQ instant-messaging software.


hyperedge

(graph theory) The equivalent of a graph's edge in a hypergraph.


hypervertex

(graph theory) The equivalent of a graph's vertex in a hypergraph.


intertwingle

en-verb

intertwingle (third-person singular simple present intertwingles, present participle intertwingling, simple past and past participle intertwingled)

intertwingles (present singular third-person)
intertwingling (participle present)
intertwingled (participle past)
intertwingled (past)

Blend of intertwine + intermingle
This word has been coined independently multiple times.
* Apparently used comically by Montgomery Gordon Rice of Bradley Polytechnic Institute in an April 1901 performance of Esmeralda
* Used as a noun by Henry James as a nickname for a group of his Emmet female cousins who were painters.
* Used as a noun by John Singer Sargent as a nickname for his 1900s genre paintings of the Ormond sisters (his nieces); either relating to the use of shawls as a motif, or the interchangeability of the models, or their convoluted poses. (Jane Emmet de Glehn, one of Henry James' "intertwingles", was also a friend and model of Sargent's.)
* Introduced in urban planning by Tracy Augur in the 1950s, and adopted by others including Dennis O'Harrow
The more specific computing sense was introduced by Ted Nelson in Computer Lib/Dream Machines (1974).

Deeply intertwingled hypertext documents offer readers abundant choices, permitting reader and author to work together to dynamically reorganize the document to meet specific needs.

1991 February, Mark Bernstein, "Deeply Intertwingled Hypertext: The Navigation Problem Reconsidered" Technical Communication Vol.38 No.1 p.41

2015 Theodor Holm Nelson, "What Box?" p.134 in Intertwingled: The Work and Influence of Ted Nelson Douglas R. Dechow and Daniele C. Strappa, eds. (2015) History of Computing →ISSN →ISBN
This book, like the conference, is called Intertwingled. It’s a word that expresses a philosophical position about cross-connection. I said in Computer Lib, “Everything is deeply intertwingled.” I meant that all subjects and issues are intertwined and intermingled. ... Now, it’s also a metaphysic to say, “everything is deeply intertwingled,” since the sentence cannot be proven true or false. But it is computer science to say that we need to represent cross-connection, and I’m expressing a computer science opinion when I say that intertwingularity is a better form of representation—for everything—than hierarchy.

(intransitive, informal, computing, rare) To interconnect or interrelate in a deep and complex way.


netcop

Isn't the infamous "netcop" post that gets reposted here weekly your justification for continuing the discussion on news.admin, due to your interpretation of news.admin's charter?

1992 March 29, John Henders, “His friend and nobody else's, John Palmer!”, in alt.flame (Usenet)

(Internet, slang, derogatory) A user who attempts to enforce netiquette or other standards, especially on Usenet.


netcop

netcop (third-person singular simple present netcops, present participle netcopping, simple past and past participle netcopped)

netcops (present singular third-person)
netcopping (participle present)
netcopped (participle past)
netcopped (past)

So I just skip over them, rather than netcopping every time I don't like the content. Any thread with 'jealousy' in the title doesn't even get a look, but perhaps I should start netcopping about how that has been done to death here, and I didn't even find it interesting or relevant to me the first time it was brought up?

1993 June 29, Brad Shapcott, “Age Of Consent”, in alt.polyamory (Usenet)

But what's the reason for netcopping this shit at all? What pisses you off about these posts? Spare me the bandwidth shibboleth (should we mod usenet as a whole? Then Who giveth bandwidth and who taketh it away?). I don't think you want to make a 'whataboutthechildren' type arguments either.

1994 February 13, Sourcerer, “Beat on the Brats”, in alt.cyberpunk (Usenet)

Mark, That Ken Ehrett was netcopped twice by yours truely, both as Ned Kelly and Insectus Pentius. He was probably kicked off the system. He underestimated MY wrath!

1996 December 13, Insectus Pentius, “Book- ADD: A Different Perception...”, in alt.support.attn-deficit (Usenet)

So who netcopped Gangle? Well I think it was none other than (drum roll please!) cat daddy. And didn't he set it up beautifully!!! As the coup de grace on the little flame war and intense dislike that he and I have cultivated here on this very group, what better way to gain a "breast beating" position than to netcop Gangle and then say "Look! he did it!"

1999 October 14, Oxford Systems, “Who netcopped Gangle? Who stood to benefit from the controversy?”, in 24hoursupport.helpdesk (Usenet)

Normally people do not act like you, you are a special case as everyone can see. When it comes to calling Mexicans "Wetbacks" and calling people with an illness "Dick Suckers", your damn right I will netcop you. And as I can see, I'm not the only one who is netcoping you huh? Obviously people are getting frustrated with your offensive behavior. Contribute something positive to the group at least, can you do that?

2001 October 6, Ron, “Ronny the hypocrite changes his tune”, in alt.consumers.free-stuff (Usenet)

I can't believe you netcopped him for that. Plenty of other people swear in this group, and you just decided to pick on him for some reason. You are so full of it Bob, you have the worst, meanest, most unproductive attitude of almost anyone in this group and yet you decide to pick on him.

2002 May 17, endus, “Is hockey stop possible on asphalt”, in rec.sport.skating.inline (Usenet)

That is most definitely Not True. This newsgroup is unmoderated, but *fiercely* netcopped. The discussion is extremely wide-ranging, but there are a few things that are Not Allowed by the Charter.

2004 November 15, -^-^spectrum-^^-, “The soc.subculture.bondage-bdsm FAQ list (Part 0 of 7)”, in soc.subculture.bondage-bdsm (Usenet)

(transitive, intransitive, Internet, slang, derogatory) To call out, criticize or complain about (someone or something), especially when attempting to enforce netiquette or other standards, especially on Usenet.


rvalue

As for lvalue, but using r for right-hand side.

(programming) Any value that is not an lvalue.


lvalue

From L + value, where L stands for left-hand side (of an assignment). In the context of the C programming language it is sometimes re-explained as locator value.

(programming) A value that can be treated as an address or storage location.


segfault

segfault (third-person singular simple present segfaults, present participle segfaulting, simple past and past participle segfaulted)

segfaults (present singular third-person)
segfaulting (participle present)
segfaulted (participle past)
segfaulted (past)

(computing, Unix, intransitive) To cause or experience a segmentation fault.


unsandboxed

(computing) Not sandboxed; not constrained to a sandbox.


liveness

en-noun

liveness (usually uncountable, plural livenesses)

(computing theory) A set of properties of a concurrent system that require the system to make progress despite the fact that its concurrently executing processes may have to take turns in critical sections.


microcontent

(Internet) Any small piece of content removed from its original context, such as a summary snippet in a page of search results.


screen-scraper

(computing) A piece of software that screen-scrapes.


superkey

(databases) Any set of attributes of a relation variable (relvar) that serve to identify a single tuple or row, no other tuple having the same value for every attribute in the set.


barnacle

Uncertain, with long-debated origin. From Middle English barnakille, from earlier bernake, bernekke, most likely from Old Northern French bernaque (“barnacle”) (compare French barnache), probably from Medieval Latin barneca (“limpet”), probably from Gaulish (compare Welsh brennig, Irish báirneac), from Proto-Celtic *barinākos, from *barinā (“rock, rocky ground”) (compare Old Irish barenn (“boulder”)), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷr̥H- (“hill, mountain”) + Proto-Celtic *-ākos, from Proto-Indo-European *-kos, *-ḱos; for sense development, compare Ancient Greek λέπας (lépas, “rock”) which gave λεπάς (lepás, “limpet”).
First attestations referred to the goose, with corresponding folklore (q.v.).

der

software engineering
software engineering

(software engineering, slang) A deprecated or obsolete file, image or other artifact that remains with a project even though it is no longer needed.


mixin

Traits are somewhat between an interface and a mixin, as an interface contains only method signatures, while a trait includes also the full method definitions; on the other side mixins include method definitions, but they can also carry state through attributes, while traits usually don't.

(object-oriented programming) An uninstantiable class that provides functionality to be inherited by a subclass.


clickjacking

Blend of click + hijacking, coined by Jeremiah Grossman and Robert Hansen in 2008.

New 0-Day Browser Exploits Clickjacking - yea, this is bad... Jeremiah Grossman & Robert "RSnake" Hansen

2008 September 12, Jeremiah Grossman, Robert Hansen, “OWASP NYC AppSec 2008 Conference”, in OWASP, archived from the original on 2016-09-13

Clickjacking, however, evades the need for this cross domain reading, and instead directly places the mouse over the target area to click on the link or form that contains the nonce - thereby bypassing the need for client side cross domain read exploitation.

2008 September 12, Robert Hansen, Jeremiah Grossman, “Clickjacking”, in SecTheory - Internet Security Services Internet Security, archived from the original on 2008-10-29

(computing, web development) A malicious technique whereby part of a webpage is covered by transparent or misleading content that receives the user’s mouse clicks, thus causing them to execute commands they did not intend.


Flash

(computing) A multimedia platform, most often used for adding animation and interactivity to webpages.


doctype

There are three XHTML 1.0 doctypes available […]

2006, Paul Haine, HTML mastery: semantics, standards, and styling

Common idiosyncrasies that appear in web pages that don't have doctypes include varying text sizes and varying margin space between elements.

2007, Matthew MacDonald, Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008

Most Web page editing programs add an appropriate doctype when you create a new Web page […]

2008, David Sawyer McFarland, JavaScript: The Missing Manual

(programming) A directive that associates an SGML or XML document (such as a webpage) with a Document Type Definition, potentially affecting how it is parsed and rendered.


menuing

Note that dBASE IV includes a number of new menuing options.

1989, Neil Dunlop, dBASE for professionals, with dBASE IV

Light-bar menuing systems use the arrow keys to highlight the choice […]

Early versions were frequently used as menuing systems for launching MS-DOS programs because programs that required Windows were quite scarce […]

2008, Robert Cowart, Brian Knittel, Special Edition: Using Microsoft Windows Vista

(computing, graphical user interface) The use of menus in a graphical user interface.


relvar

Contraction of relation variable, coined by Christopher J. Date.

(databases, nonstandard) A variable that contains a relation, as distinguished from the relation itself.


foreslash

From fore- + slash, a retronym, distinguishing slash from backslash; compare forward slash.

Yes, that is a combination of foreslashes and backslashes.

Don't confuse the backslash (\) with the foreslash (/).

...using transitions labelled by their input and output, separated by a foreslash, with x and y standing for any non-identical nucleotides...

1997, Sándor Suhai, Theoretical and computational methods in genome research

The command set print rat off . switches off the special printing for _/_ so that rational numbers will be printed with spaces around the foreslash sign.

2007, Manuel Clavel, Francisco Durán, Steven Eker, Patrick Lincoln, Narciso Martí-Oliet, All About Maude - A High-Performance Logical Framework

(typography, computing, rare) Synonym of slash ⟨/⟩.


autorun

(computing) Any feature that runs a program, etc. automatically.


autorun

en-verb

autorun (third-person singular simple present autoruns, present participle autorunning, simple past autoran, past participle autorun)

autoruns (present singular third-person)
autorunning (participle present)
autoran (past)
autorun (participle past)

(computing, transitive) To run (a program, etc.) automatically.


legalizer

(computing) A tool that takes invalid input and creates valid output, such as for chip placement to move digital standard cell gates into legal positions.


hackish

en-adj

hackish (comparative more hackish, superlative most hackish)

more hackish (comparative)
most hackish (superlative)

Our site, ucbvax!menlo70!sri-unix, was recently subjected to incredibly high loads caused by the interaction of the various uucp software, two receiving sites, and news transmission. Fortunately we're out of that thicket for now, but only in a hackish sort of way. We trickle articles into inews and have terminated one of our neighbors. The other two possibilities (news batching and uucp sub-dirs) were considered and will probably be adopted at some point.

1982 November 30, Stuart, “Re: New proposal for handling net traffi - (nf)”, in net.news (Usenet), retrieved 2016-12-15, message-ID <bnews.sri-unix.4523>

A hackish solution is to use code switching, a technique of replacing a byte with a sequence of bytes headed by a special control character.

The first two hacks in this chapter provide, well, hackish solutions to that conundrum.

(computing, informal) Using, or characterised by, hacks: poorly designed workarounds.

hackish slang; a hackish sense of humor

(computing, informal) Characteristic of hackers.


bitfield

(programming) A sequence of bits (binary digits) which can be toggled individually as flags.


DAWG

directed acyclic word graph
directed acyclic word graph#English

(programming) Initialism of directed acyclic word graph.


reverse video

For example, underlined reverse video cannot be obtained.

1985, Richard Allen King, The MS-DOS handbook


inverse video

When I type "/F", I get a menu of possible file actions, the first of which is in inverse video.

Text to be deleted is shown in inverse video.

If any of the video buffer's background attribute bits are on, MONO converts the attribute to 70h (inverse video).

1989, PC: The Independent Guide to IBM Personal Computers

(computing, dated) A display technique whereby background and foreground colours are interchanged, typically used for highlighting.


multiton

creational design pattern
creational pattern

(software, design) A creational design pattern resembling the singleton pattern except that multiple keyed instances of the class can be created.

(programming) The class used for the multiton pattern.


loopback

en-noun

loopback (countable and uncountable, plural loopbacks)

The routing of a signal, data stream, etc. from its origin back to the origin, primarily as a means of testing the transmission or transportation infrastructure.


aftertouch

aftertouch (countable and uncountable, plural aftertouches)

KO2 ruins every other football game you'll ever play; I never got good at SWOS - the controls were all wrong. And the aftertouch was stupid. And the computer keepers were always hopeless on free kicks.

1997, Mark Howson, “Kick Off 2: Best Amiga Game Of all time!”, in comp.sys.amiga.games (Usenet)

(video games) A feature in football/soccer games allowing the player to swerve the ball immediately after kicking it.


minidump

(computing, Microsoft Windows) A small core dump comprising 64 kilobytes of memory (on 32-bit systems) or 128 kilobytes (on 64-bit systems).


MMR

MMR (countable and uncountable, plural MMRs)

(countable, video games) Initialism of matchmaking rating, used in matching players for games.

(countable, networking) Initialism of meet-me room.


database model

Any fundamental way of organizing data in a database, such as the hierarchical model, the network model or the relational model.


bashism

(computing, informal) A shell command specific to the Bash interpreter.


work-safe

en-adj

work-safe (comparative more work-safe, superlative most work-safe)

more work-safe (comparative)
most work-safe (superlative)

(Internet) That can be viewed from one's workplace without the risk of disciplinary action; not graphic or offensive.


digital service provider

en-noun

digital service provider (plural digital service providers)

digital service providers (plural)
DSP (abbreviation)

(Internet) A company that provides an outlet to distribute media online.


postcount

For quotations using this term, see Citations:postcount.

(Internet) Post count; the number of messages written by a user on an internet forum or message board.


to the moon

The marketing of this relatively new money has so far been limited mostly to ads on trade websites and targeted pushes on social media, where aficionados swap meme-fueled in-jokes about coin values rocketing to the moon.

2021 July 7, Tiffany Hsu, Coral Murphy Marcos, “Cryptocurrency Seeks the Spotlight, With Spike Lee’s Help”, in The New York Times

(cryptocurrencies, slang) Of a cryptocurrency, increasing rapidly and substantially in value.


to the moon

(cryptocurrencies, slang) An aspirational or rallying call for confidence that the value of a cryptocurrency will greatly increase in the future.


big iron

(computing, slang, humorous, dated) Large, expensive, powerful computers such as mainframes.


twip

Abbreviation of twentieth of a point (referring to a printer's point).

(computing) A unit of measure equal to one twentieth of a point.


invoker

(computing) That which causes a program or subroutine to execute.


dump core

en-verb

dump core (third-person singular simple present dumps core, present participle dumping core, simple past and past participle dumped core)

dumps core (present singular third-person)
dumping core (participle present)
dumped core (participle past)
dumped core (past)

Traditionally, UNIX and UNIX-like systems have dumped core or provided a binary output of their state upon crashing.

2007, Jon Masters, Richard Blum, Professional Linux programming

(intransitive, computing) To generate a core dump.

Sorry, I dumped core on you.

(slang, computing) To ramble pointlessly at length; especially used in apology

Jack dumped core on how to operate the server before he left on holiday.

(slang, computing) To transfer a large quantity of information or knowledge from one person to another, particularly subjects of a technical nature; to lecture


cpi

characters per inch
characters per inch#English

(computing) The measure of characters that can be stored in each inch of magnetic tape


OLE

(computing) Initialism of Object Linking and Embedding.


zorkmid

Yes, the zorkmid is still the official medium of exchange, and this realm supposedly was founded by a relative of Dimwit Flathead III […]

1984, Softalk for the IBM personal computer

Nethack (www.nethack.org), which is not IF but does use the zorkmid as its currency, has a one zorkmid coin. It is simply described as "a gold piece".

2003, Robin Johnson, “One Zorkmid desc?”, in rec.games.int-fiction (Usenet)

After the collapse of the Soviet Empire, the Eastern European nation of Ukraine adopted the Zorkmid as its national currency.

(video games) A fictional unit of currency used in various computer games.


scrollback

The program can hold as many as 5000 lines of a session in a scrollback buffer.

1993 April, InfoWorld, volume 15, number 15

New communications documents are set for a scrollback area of unlimited size […]

1995, Charles Rubin, The Macintosh bible guide to ClarisWorks 4

The scrollback buffer allows you to scroll back and review earlier commands and command output.

2005, Dave Taylor, Learning UNIX for Mac OS X Tiger

(computing) The part of a scrolling display that precedes the current line or section.


tetherless

(Internet, computing) wireless; pertaining to a wireless network


feelie

From feel + -ie. In the video game sense, introduced by the game publisher Infocom in the 1980s.

The company also gained fame for its inclusion of “feelies,” small tangible items directly related to the game. The feelies for Infocom's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1984), for example, included papers representing “Destruction Orders for Your Home and Planet,” an empty bag representing “Microscopic Space Fleet,” and a “Don't Panic” button, among other items.

2017, Andrew Williams, History of Digital Games: Developments in Art, Design and Interaction, CRC Press

(video games) An additional physical item packaged with a game (usually interactive fiction) to immerse the player in the game world and provide hints to solving the game.


computronium

The process of making computers on ever smaller scales, using physical degrees of freedom and the laws of physics in an ever more efficient manner, can be thought of as a refining process. In this process we are trying to refine and concentrate the computing power inherent in the laws of physics. You might ask, "Can we achieve 100% pure 'Computronium'?"

1992, Norman Margolus, “Fundamental Physical Constraints on the Computational Process”, in BC Crandall, James Lewis, editors, Nanotechnology: Research and Perspectives, The MIT Press, page 202

They should be working on uploading and solving the nanoassembly conformational problem instead. Then we could turn all the available dumb matter into computronium and use it for processing our thoughts. Long-term, it's the only way to go.

2005, Charles Stross, Accelerando, Ace Books, Chapter 1, "Lobsters"

To this end, the AI might produce computronium (matter organized in a configuration that is optimal for computation) and use it to implement digital minds in states of euphoria.

2014, Nick Bostrom, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, Oxford University Press, page 140

(science fiction, philosophy) A hypothetical material engineered to maximize its use as a computing substrate.


deliminate

deliminate (third-person singular simple present deliminates, present participle deliminating, simple past and past participle deliminated)

deliminates (present singular third-person)
deliminating (participle present)
deliminated (participle past)
deliminated (past)

From French délimiter, from Late Latin delimitare (“to mark out the limits”), from de- + limitare (“to limit, bound”); see limit.


fuckings

Sorry, daa, me thinks crackintros, the ones with 7 rows high ascii scrollers (my friend did 60fps scroller with 286/12 for dos screen like that.. ruled amongst pc guys in 91, when we amiga thugs had something fancier already...:)) shouting "we karcked this and that game, fuckings to x11, seppox.."

1999, Jarno Kilpia, “"Demo"”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet)

Greetz to Dixan (my elite friend), fuckings to the others

1999, Simone Ghiaroni, “boserve, megasys, macno?, not, sunny girl, ez, surfing e flames vari”, in it.comp.demos (Usenet)

...fuckings to Lord Helmet of Spaceballs...

2008, Ara, “[OT] LOL groupwarz”, in it-alt.arti.demoscene (Usenet)

(demoscene) Public abuse directed at rival demosceners, often included in the scrolltext of a demo; the negative equivalent of greets.


defragger

/diːˈfɹæɡə(ɹ)/


Jobsian

en-adj

Jobsian (comparative more Jobsian, superlative most Jobsian)

more Jobsian (comparative)
most Jobsian (superlative)

The Apple II division was being ignored, the Lisa division was deliberately destroyed in a fit of Jobsian pique, and the Macintosh division was exhausted...

1992, Robert X Cringely, Accidental empires

And a wedding walk was so unique, so unconventional, so unexpected that it was positively Jobsian.

2001, Alan Deutschman, The Second Coming of Steve Jobs

As you can see here, WinXP's Luna interface is clearly superior to anything the Jobsian crowd in Cupertino has to offer.

Of or pertaining to Steve Jobs (1955-2011), American businessman and co-founder of the computer company Apple Inc.


antialias

en-verb

antialias (third-person singular simple present antialiases, present participle antialiasing, simple past and past participle antialiased)

antialiases (present singular third-person)
antialiasing (participle present)
antialiased (participle past)
antialiased (past)

(computer graphics, transitive) To smooth using antialiasing.

(computer graphics, intransitive) To become smooth using antialiasing.


antialias

(computer graphics) An antialias filter; a low-frequency filter with a sharp cutoff.


Redmondian

en-adj

Redmondian (comparative more Redmondian, superlative most Redmondian)

more Redmondian (comparative)
most Redmondian (superlative)

From Redmond + -ian, from Redmond, Washington, US, where Microsoft has its headquarters.

In essence, anyone who speaks ill of Linux in any context and under any circumstances is a Redmondian demi-demon or an infidel […]

1999 July, Network World, volume 16, number 29

With typical Redmondian logic, the company hid Hotmail's address-book importing feature in Outlook Express, where it's called Synchronize Now and doesn't mention Hotmail.

2003, Steve Bass, PC annoyances: how to fix the most annoying things about your personal computer

.NET innovation is the culmination of the "Redmondian" imagination.

2006, Yogesh Shetty, Samir Jayaswal, Practical .NET for financial markets

(informal, computing) Of or pertaining to the computing company Microsoft.


character cell

(computing) The imaginary rectangle that delineates the boundaries of a text character.


polyinstantiation

(computing) Instantiation into multiple independent instances.


bump mapping

(computer graphics) A technique where a perturbation to the surface normal of the object being rendered is applied to each pixel, based on a texture map, prior to calculating the illumination, so as to produce a richer, more detailed surface representation.


one-banana problem

en-noun

one-banana problem (plural one-banana problems)

Derived from the idea that trained monkeys can do low-level jobs, working for bananas. It also may come from Sherlock Holmes lore; see three-pipe problem.

It's only a one-banana problem at the most; what's taking them so long?

(computing, slang) A problem that should be easily resolved.


multiple inheritance

(programming, object-oriented programming) The ability to inherit from more than one superclass in a single subclass.

vícenásobná dědičnost

in programming: inheriting from multiple superclasses


deskew

en-verb

deskew (third-person singular simple present deskews, present participle deskewing, simple past and past participle deskewed)

deskews (present singular third-person)
deskewing (participle present)
deskewed (participle past)
deskewed (past)

(transitive, computing) To rotate a scanned image to compensate for skewing.

kiegyenesít

computing: to rotate a scanned image to compensate for skewing


Web 1.0

The relationship of Web 1.0 to the Web of tomorrow is roughly the equivalence of Pong to The Matrix.

1999, Darcy DiNucci, “Fragmented Future”, in Print, volume 53, number 4, →ISSN, page 220

The original internet boom of the late 1990s, what you might think of as web 1.0, was a time of great stock-market valuations that created a few enduring companies and a lot of dead dot-coms.

2022 May 5, Farhad Manjoo, “What Is Happening to the People Falling for Crypto and NFTs”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

(Internet) The first generation of the World Wide Web, characterized by separate static websites rather than continually-updated weblogs and social networking tools.


installfest

(computing) An event where experienced users assist others with installing an operating system on their computers.


SysRq

(computing) Abbreviation of System request.


nonblog

Not of or pertaining to a blog (a weblog on the Internet).


nonliteral

(programming, logic) That which is not a literal.


upvote

(Internet, Reddit) A vote for something that increases a cumulative tally of popularity.


upvote

upvote (third-person singular simple present upvotes, present participle upvoting, simple past and past participle upvoted)

upvotes (present singular third-person)
upvoting (participle present)
upvoted (participle past)
upvoted (past)

(transitive, Internet, Reddit) To vote for, increasing a cumulative tally of popularity.


nonserver

(computing) Not of or pertaining to a server.


nonprogrammable

Most of the DOS products in our last review of nonprogrammables have not had significant upgrades.

1993, Personal Computer Magazine, page 276

(computing, rare) A device that cannot be programmed.


downvote

(Internet, Reddit) A vote against something that reduces a cumulative tally of popularity.


downvote

downvote (third-person singular simple present downvotes, present participle downvoting, simple past and past participle downvoted)

downvotes (present singular third-person)
downvoting (participle present)
downvoted (participle past)
downvoted (past)

(transitive, Internet, Reddit) To vote against, reducing a cumulative tally of popularity.


Scroll Lock

(computing) A key on a standard extended keyboard, originally causing the arrow keys to scroll a window rather than moving a cursor, now sometimes used for other purposes.

scroll lock

a key, originally causing the arrow keys to scroll a window rather than moving a cursor


autoconfigure

autoconfigure (third-person singular simple present autoconfigures, present participle autoconfiguring, simple past and past participle autoconfigured)

autoconfigures (present singular third-person)
autoconfiguring (participle present)
autoconfigured (participle past)
autoconfigured (past)


DDO

dynamic drive overlay
w:Dynamic drive overlay

(software) Initialism of dynamic drive overlay (a type of computer software; a form of driver)


cass

STOCK CONTROL / CASS / DATASOFT / 12.81

1985, Stephen Doyle, GCSE Computer Studies for You, page 214

Radio Shaft color computer w/printer & cass. drive, several programs, $250.

1988, PC Mag, volume 7, number 7, page 62

(computing, dated) Abbreviation of cassette.


HMM

hidden Markov model
hidden Markov model#English

(computer science) Initialism of hidden Markov model.


CRF

conditional random field
w:conditional random field

(computer science) Initialism of conditional random field.


multitab

Using a multitab home page is easy when you know the secret. Just follow these steps to set up your own multitab home page.

2007, Steve Sinchak, Hacking Windows Vista

(computing, graphical user interface) Involving multiple tabs.


nonfunction

en-noun

nonfunction (countable and uncountable, plural nonfunctions)

(mathematics, computing) Anything that is not a function.


blogmaster

From blog + master, modelled on webmaster.

Ms. Marcotte joined the Edwards campaign at the end of January in the new post of blogmaster.

2007 February 7, John M. Broder, “Edwards’s Bloggers Cross the Line, Critic Says”, in New York Times

(rare, Internet) One who maintains or works on the upkeep of a blog.


superscalar

(computing, of a CPU architecture) Implementing instruction-level parallelism within a single processor, thereby allowing faster throughput than would otherwise be possible at the same clock speed.


status bar

(computing, graphical user interface) A narrow horizontal information area for text and icons, typically found at the bottom of windows in a graphical user interface.

statusbalk

an information area typically found at the bottom of windows


uniquid

(programming, in the PHP programming language) A random identifier based on the system time.


connascence

From con- + nascence. In the software engineering sense introduced by Meilir Page-Jones.

The construct of inheritance–although wildly popular in most object-oriented shops—may sometimes introduce raging connascence.

2000, Meilir Page-Jones, Fundamentals of Object-Oriented Design in UML, Addison-Wesley Professional, page 225

For example, if two classes in the same component have connascence of meaning, it is less damaging to the code base than if two components have the same form of connascence. Developers must consider strength and locality together.

2020, Mark Richards, Neal Ford, Fundamentals of Software Architecture, O'Reilly Media, page 52

Connascence, in the context of software engineering, refers to the degree of coupling between software components.

2020, Piethein Strengholt, Data Management at Scale

(software engineering) A relationship between two or more elements of software in which changing one necessitates changing the others in order to maintain overall correctness; a metric for such a relationship.


backpropagation

backpropagation (countable and uncountable, plural backpropagations)

In machine learning, backpropagation of error (‘backprop’) is the algorithm most often used to train deep neural networks and is the most successful learning procedure for these networks.

2020, Timothy P. Lillicrap, Adam Santoro, Luke Marris, Colin J. Akerman, Geoffrey Hinton, “Backpropagation and the brain”, in Nature

(machine learning) An error correction technique used in neural networks.


xyr

As far as I'm concerned the constitution should be re-written so that anyone capable of being elected is ushered into a hidden room upon inauguration, where a secret panel of the Illuminati (preferably one chaired by me) beat xyr to death with blunt instruments and replace xyr by a Stepford Politician.

1996 September 12, Thomas Russo, “Re: Intelligent Women are an endangered Species”, in soc.singles (Usenet), message-ID <RUSSO.96Sep12163146@slug.swcp.com>

Give it to xyr (after preposition)

I wrote xyr an e-mail (indirect object)

I haven't met xyr (direct object)

(nonstandard, personal, chiefly Internet) The form of xe used after a preposition or as the object of a verb; that woman, that ship, etc; similar usage to him/her.


on-the-fly encryption

(computing) A type of encryption, or its software, which uses virtual drives to encrypt information that is then decrypted in RAM.


screenspace

At this point you should tidy up your screen, resizing the windows and positioning them to make best use of your available screenspace.

2006, Mike Collins, Pro Tools LE and M-powered: the complete guide

If you have limited screenspace, double-click on the Insert panel to collapse it.

2008, Jeremy Osborn, Dreamweaver CS4 Digital Classroom

For example, designers can specify the minimum and maximum sizes a widget can have on a small screenspace (eg, the screen of a mobile device)...

2009, Marios C Angelides, Advances in Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization

They deal better with denser networks, offer ample screenspace to display metrics for each edge and can more easily display change over time.

2009, Tom Gross, Jan Gulliksen, Paula Kotzé, Human-Computer Interaction - INTERACT 2009

(computing) The space available on a screen display.


EGA

Later, when we played King's Quest 2, I remember being legitimately terrified while inside Dracula's castle. Like, I had nightmares in 16 color EGA.

2004 September 2, Emily Morganti, quoting Matthew Chapman, “Peasant’s Quest”, in adventuregamers.com, archived from the original on 2010-09-23

(computer graphics) Initialism of enhanced graphics adapter, an obsolete computer display standard between CGA and VGA, offering sixteen colours on screen from a palette of sixty-four.


CGA

(computer graphics) Initialism of Color Graphics Adapter, an obsolete computer display standard preceding EGA and VGA, offering a palette of 16 colours, of which only a few could be displayed on screen at one time.


noncharacter

(computing) That which is not a character (unit of text).

(Unicode) One of 66 code points (the 32 code points U+FDD0–U+FDEF, plus the last two code points—U+...FFFE and U+...FFFF—of each of the 17 planes) which are guaranteed never to be assigned and are intended for process-internal use.


nonprimitive

(computing, geometry) An object that is not a primitive.


Wiimote

Blend of Wii + remote. Not a trademark, but a nickname for the product.

[…] co-ordinated combinations of button presses and feedback loops of rumbling joypads, Wiimotes and styli.

2008, James Newman, Playing with videogames

Finally it can be used in parallel with other Wiimotes in order to provide more motion data or even be expanded with other devices […]

2009, Ernesto Damiani, Jechang Jeong, Robert J Howlett, Lakhmi C Jain, New Directions in Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services

The Wiimote provides sensing of acceleration on three axes, as well as an optical sensor that is used in conjunction with a stationary Sensor Bar […]

2009, Alan Craig, William R Sherman, Jeffrey D Will, Developing Virtual Reality Applications: Foundations of Effective Design

(video games, informal) The Wii Remote, the primary controller for the Nintendo Wii game console, noted for its motion-sensing capabilities.

Astrid Ensslin
Palgrave Macmillan
Wiimote


nonkeyboard

(computing, music) Not a keyboard, or lacking a keyboard.


monkey patch

Apparently from earlier guerilla patch (“code that sneakily changes other code”), understood as gorilla patch. A monkey patch was then a more carefully written instance of such a patch. Or simply derived from monkey (“to mess with”, verb).

(programming slang) A patch which alters the behaviour of a program by forcibly overriding aspects of the original code at runtime.


monkey patch

en-verb

monkey patch (third-person singular simple present monkey patches, present participle monkey patching, simple past and past participle monkey patched)

monkey patches (present singular third-person)
monkey patching (participle present)
monkey patched (participle past)
monkey patched (past)

Even though that works with some browsers, others provide Anchor objects without click() methods. Add this magic code to your application.js, to Monkey Patch a JavaScript click() event:

2007, Philip C. Plumlee, Test Driven Ajax (on Rails)

(programming slang, transitive) To alter the behaviour of a program by forcibly overriding aspects of the original code at runtime.


overfitting

(statistics, machine learning) The production of a statistical model that, due to an excess of parameters relative to the sample size, fits the sample data extremely well but fails to fit new data.


pointcut

(computing, programming) In aspect-oriented programming, a set of join points specifying when advice should run during execution.


supernet

(computing, Internet) An IP network formed from two or more networks (or subnets) with a common CIDR routing prefix.


cybercast

(Internet) A broadcast of audiovisual material over the Internet.


rip box

(computing, media) A high end computer used for "ripping" (decoding) DVDs and converting them into various formats, using ripping and encoding software.


(computing) Alternative spelling of 8514/A


spherize

spherize (third-person singular simple present spherizes, present participle spherizing, simple past and past participle spherized)

spherizes (present singular third-person)
spherizing (participle present)
spherized (participle past)
spherized (past)

(transitive, computer graphics) To cause to appear as if on the surface of a sphere.


stateful

From state + -ful. In the computing sense it is intended as an opposite for stateless.

CORBA and DCOM are both stateful protocols. A user establishes a connection with the server and that connection remains in place during the entire session.

2001, John Mueller, Special edition using SOAP

(computing) That supports different states, reacting to the same input differently depending on the current state.

zustandsorientiert

computer: that supports different states


(computing) 8514/Adapter, a video interface card and 4:3 display standard for computers, made obsolete in 1990 by the XGA video standard.


SDCH

(Internet) Initialism of Shared Dictionary Compression over HTTP: a compression technique for the World Wide Web.


memberwise

If a copy constructor is not defined, a memberwise copy is performed. This means that a copy operation is applied to each data member in turn.

1997, Adrian P Robson, The programmer's guide to C++

(computing, programming) In terms of members (items associated with class instances).


hashtag

→ German: Hashtag

→ Japanese: ハッシュタグ (hasshutagu)

→ Polish: hashtag

→ Russian: хеште́г (xɛštɛ́g)

→ Ukrainian: геште́ґ (heštég)

From earlier hash tag, from hash (sign) + tag. The hash sign # was initially proposed as tag hash by Chris Messina to create groups on Twitter, modeled after the IRC channel prefix. First published use as hash tag by Stowe Boyd in 2007.

I support the hash tag convention: http://tinyurl.com/2qttlb #hashtag #factoryjoe #twitter

2007 Aug 25, Stowe Boyd, tweet, https://twitter.com/stoweboyd/status/226570552

You can also search for a hashtag by typing a topic (without the #) in the search box and clicking Search.

2009, Paul McFedries, Pete Cashmore, Twitter Tips, Tricks, and Tweets

While hashtags aren't formally part of Twitter, some clients, such as Tweetdeck, will persist hashtags across replies to create a sort of message threading.

2009, Alistair Croll, Sean Power, Complete Web Monitoring

The planes are moving into position. The foreign ministers of minor Arab states are taking calls on their cell-phones from Western politicians. Twitter accounts explode around the Libyan hash-tag.

2011, Rory Stewart, “Here we go again”, in London Review of Books, 33.VII

(Internet) A metadata tag, signaled by a preceding hash sign (#), used to label content.

I sound like a shitty mother and wife. Or at the very least an inadequate wife and ungrateful mother–which is in stark contrast to the image I try to portray on Instagram. Hashtag happy life. Hashtag beautiful family. Hashtag blessed.

2016, Emily Giffin, First Comes Love: A Novel, New York City: Ballantine Books, page 40

You're perpetually stoned, aren't you? Hashtag four twenty four seven.

2018, John Allison, By Night, volume 1, Los Angeles, CA: Boom! Box, page n.p.

The Occam’s razor explanation is that he’s just hashtag-blessed with the kind of lustrous lashes that many people spend a lot of money (and rack up a lot of Sephora Beauty Insider points) trying to get.

2024 July 31, Heather Schwedel, Is J.D. Vance Wearing Eyeliner?

(Internet, informal) The hash sign itself, when used as part of a hashtag.


hashtag

hashtag (third-person singular simple present hashtags, present participle hashtagging, simple past and past participle hashtagged)

hashtags (present singular third-person)
hashtagging (participle present)
hashtagged (participle past)
hashtagged (past)

(transitive, Internet) To label (a message) with a hashtag.


Twitterati

For amusing one-liners, news, and water-cooler chatter about Palin from the Twitterati, please keep checking in on our "McCain VP Watch" Twitter widget on our blog to the right.

2008 September 3, Sarah Lai Stirland, “Sarah Palin's Campaign Debut Electrifies the GOP, Galvanizes The Twitterati”, in Wired

Fire-starters weren’t the only ones at work that night. The Twitterati were also in full force.

2009 June 8, Elina Shatkin, “Taco Zone truck attacked in Echo Park, as told by Twitter”, in Los Angeles Times

Sitting in the courtroom […], their laptops and tablets propped before them, power cables snaking through convoluted adapters, the Twitterati have sight of witnesses at all times — the troubadours, or perhaps the tricoteuses, of the digital revolution.

2014 April 24, Alan Cowell, “At Pistorius trial, Twitterati have their day in court”, in The New York Times

Queen Elizabeth II may not have been amused, but the Twitterati certainly were.

2018 July 14, Sarah Mervosh, “Trump Walks in Front of Queen Elizabeth, Causing Social Media Frenzy”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

(informal) People, particularly avid or frequent users, who use the microblogging service Twitter.


anti-feature

Apple's iBooks 1.1 has an important anti-feature. Full justification has been applied to all books by default on the iPad (but not the iPhone) and cannot be overridden by the book designer.

2010, Elizabeth Castro, EPUB Straight to the Point […], Peachpit Press

For example, there are aliases or synonyms for many method names; size and length will both return the numbers of entries in an array. Some consider this sort of thing to be an annoyance or anti-feature, but I consider it a good design. Ruby strives for consistency and regularity.

2015, Hal Fulton, André Arko, The Ruby Way […], Addison-Wesley Professional, page xl

(software) Functionality originally intended as a feature, but perceived as a bug, annoyance, or infringement of freedoms by some or even most users.


permathread

Since this is something of a permathread on this list I though this would be of interest:

2003, jbritt, “von Rossum on Strong vs. Weak Typing”, in comp.lang.ruby (Usenet)

I suspect that this is a permathread.

2003, David Megginson, “Studying up on VOR's”, in rec.aviation.student (Usenet)

(Internet, slang) A permanent or perennial thread of discussion.


crashable

If you plan to plot data with error bars, you must name them with an. ERR extension. Failure to do so will crash the system, and you will lose your precious work. Providing you don't input Ctrl-Alt-Del, no program should be crashable from the keyboard, especially as the result of such a minor transgression as this.

1989, PC Mag, volume 8, number 5, page 276

(computing) That can be crashed (made to malfunction and terminate).


wire speed

(computing) The (maximum) rate at which data can flow through a cable


autodiscovery

(computing) Automatic discovery, as of newsfeeds for a website or changes to the configuration of machines on a network.


social media

en-noun

social media (countable and uncountable, plural social medias)

The early 21st century saw a huge increase in social media thanks to the widespread availability of the Internet.

"By all means we want people to use social media, but we do not want you to use it in ways that will incite violence," said Jonathan Toy, Southwark council's head of community safety. "This remains a big issue for us and without some form of censorship purely focusing on [violent videos], I'm not sure how we can address it."

2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in The Guardian

I grow weary when I think of this as the new normal for what is considered to be a fruitful personal life. Social media is no longer a mere public extension of our private socialization; it has become a replacement for it.

2019 October 1, Bianca Vivion Brooks, “I Used to Fear Being a Nobody. Then I Left Social Media.”, in New York Times

On social media, everyone believes that anyone to whom they have access owes them an audience: a writer who posted a take, a celebrity who announced a project, a pretty girl just trying to live her life, that anon who said something afflictive.

2022 November 10, Ian Bogost, “The Age of Social Media Is Ending”, in The Atlantic

(uncountable) Applications or websites allowing users to share content and communicate with one another via the Internet.


copypasta

copypasta (countable and uncountable, plural copypastas)

→ Polish: copypasta

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

Blend of copy-paste + pasta.
Etymology tree
Middle English copy
English copy
Middle English paste
English paste
English copy-pasteblend.
Proto-Indo-European *kʷeh₁t-der.
Ancient Greek πάσσω (pássō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Ancient Greek -τός (-tós)
Ancient Greek παστός (pastós)
Ancient Greek παστά (pastá)bor.
Late Latin pasta
Italian pastabor.
English pastablend.
English copypasta

etymon

Fix copypasta error in previous patch.

2011 February 1, Polytheus, “r288 committed - ChangeLog for system 6.2-rc1, boot 3.0”, in openetna (Usenet)

There are a number of file systems that have copypasta of ufs_ihash; adapting these too to vcache should be a piece of cake.

2014 April 7, Taylor R. Campbell, “Vnode API change: add global vnode cache”, in fa.netbsd.tech.kern (Usenet)

Perl's pod docs are a disorganized mess on the relation of hashes, packages, objects, references and globs. The tutorials never make it clear, and instead encourage copypasta.

2015 June 27, bulk 88, “documentation: do we want perlblurb?”, in perl.perl5.porters (Usenet)

This [bug documentation] is copypasta from the initramfs-tools bug.

2016 April 5, Ben Hutchings, “Bug#820038: Copy signatures into udebs”, in linux.debian.maint.boot (Usenet)

Something like 30% of large codebases on "big name" software projects by Google, Adobe, etc. have "copypasta errors" in code of the form like this, a shit-headed way to compare two arrays for reverse equality:
if (array_1[9] == array_2[0] &&
array_1[8] == array_2[1] && […]

2019 February 18, bitrex, “Modern Math”, in sci.electronics.design (Usenet)

(computing, slang) Code or documentation that has been copied and pasted, often erroneously.

copié-merdé

code or documentation that has been copied and pasted, often erroneously


BitTorrent

(networking) A peer-to-peer file sharing protocol.


dial-in

(networking) Of a computer, set up to accept incoming modem calls.


VEOS

(computing) Initialism of virtual environment operating shell.


transflective

liquid crystal display
liquid crystal display

(electronics, computing) Of a liquid crystal display: that reflects and transmits light.


special move

The fighters move around nicely but when they carry out their special moves it occasionally gets rather confusing. You have the usual kick, thump, jump and duck moves plus others depending on whether you're playing Haggar, Guy or Cody.

1991, James Leach, Final Fight (game review in Your Sinclair issue 70)

(video games) An exceptionally powerful fighting move.


KSI

key set identifier
key set identifier#English

(Internet) Initialism of key set identifier.


web server

(software) software that delivers Web pages and other documents to browsers using the HTTP protocol.

(computer hardware) the computer on which such software runs.


windoid

(graphical user interface, Macintosh) A small, less adorned, floating window or palette of tools that remains on top of other windows.


e-mail

en-noun

e-mail (countable and uncountable, plural e-mails)

I finally figured out what e-mail is for. it's for communicating with people you'd rather not talk to.

2004, George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, →OCLC, →OL, page 262

She had been crushed for two whole days by an e-mail from her betrothed, which had announced that he had married a British woman.

2019, Chigozie Obioma, An Orchestra of Minorities, Abacus (2019), page 57


e-mail

en-verb

e-mail (third-person singular simple present e-mails, present participle e-mailing, simple past and past participle e-mailed)

e-mails (present singular third-person)
e-mailing (participle present)
e-mailed (participle past)
e-mailed (past)


Unihan

(computing, typography) A character set, a subset of Unicode, that attempts to unify the regional and historical variants of Han characters by treating them as different glyphs representing the same grapheme.


freebooting

Your recent issue about the problems of electronic software piracy or "freebooting" — if you will — was excellent and timely. However, I wonder if both sides have failed to understand the social significance of the struggle.

1982, InfoWorld, volume 4, number 15, page 30

Freebooting of broadcast satellite signals may exist privately, but we have no evidence of illegal signal capture being commercialized any longer.

1994, United States. Congress. Senate, Country reports on economic policy and trade practices

Many felt that the software companies are really the ones who ought to be called pirates. […] No wonder, the reader said, that customers are tempted to a little freebooting of their own.

Oh those freebooters taking our videos! I'm sick of it. Freebooting, you know, it's a serious issue!

2014, Brady Haran, Hello Internet: Episode #5: Freebooting

(computing) Software piracy, or stealing or unauthorized rehosting of digital content.


wedsite

A website dedicated to sharing information about a particular wedding.


LMB

(computing) Initialism of left mouse button.


cmdlet

For example, the following command will display the cmdlets that can be executed by people who are in the Move Mailboxes role[…]

2010, Ken St. Cyr, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Administration Instant Reference, page 491

Generally, a cmdlet will run much faster than a script of the same functionality.

2011, John Paul Mueller, Professional Windows 7 Development Guide

(computing, Microsoft Windows) A specialized .NET class implementing a particular operation in Windows PowerShell.


kbps

Hughes says that this particular plan offers speeds of up to 700 kbps, with typical speeds at peak times of 400 to 500; it does not promise 700.

2009 June 7, “Corrections”, in New York Times

(computing) Initialism of kilobits per second.


newsbot

(computing) Any of various pieces of software designed to harvest articles from newsgroups, or from news websites.


treeware

(computing, slang, humorous) Documentation provided on paper.


dance pad

(video games) A plastic or metal pad used for playing dance games. The player provides input to the game by stepping on and off various panels on the pad.


jailbroken

(computing, of an electronic device) Having undergone jailbreaking.


SSD

en-noun

SSD (countable and uncountable, plural SSDs)

First, static separation of duties (SSD) is based on user-role membership (Gavrila & Barkley, 1998).

2006, Merrill Warkentin, Enterprise Information Systems Assurance and System Security

Administrative functions include all those associated with Core RBAC, as well as creating, delting, and modifying an SSD relation, as well as setting the cardinality of the SSD role set. The cardinality determines the number of users to whom the entire set of SSD roles could be assigned, thus violating SSD, but in a known and limited way.

2012, Alessandro Colantonio, Roberto Di Pietro, Alberto Ocello, Role Mining in Business: Taming Role-based Access Control Administration, page 25

Your organization might decide to use static separation of duty (SSD). SSD dictates that the member of one group cannot be the member of another group.

static separation of duty
static separation of duty#English

(security, software, uncountable) Initialism of static separation of duty.


augmented reality

augmented reality (countable and uncountable, plural augmented realities)

Augmented Reality enhances a user's perception of and interaction with the real world. The virtual objects display information that the user cannot directly detect with his own senses.

1997 August, Ronald T. Azuma, “A Survey of Augmented Reality”, in Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, volume 6, number 4, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 355–385

Microsoft workers are calling on their employer to cancel a $480m contract to provide the US army with augmented reality (AR) headsets, saying they “do not want to become war profiteers”.

2019 February 22, Julia Carrie Wong, “‘We won't be war profiteers’: Microsoft workers protest $480m army contract”, in The Guardian

(computing) The merging of a view of the real-world environment upon a digital image in real time.


magic word

/ˌmædʒɪk ˈwɜːd/

Coordinate term: magic number

The header consists of an optional self-execution script, a magic word, a version number, and the word offset of the first instruction, relative to the magic word.

2021, Clinton L. Jeffery, Build Your Own Programming Language, page 273

One of the magic words used in the MediaWiki software is __NOTOC__, which hides the table of contents that would normally be on the page.

(computing) A string of text having some special function or purpose.


join point

(programming) In aspect-oriented programming, a point at which advice (additional code) is triggered (a set of these constituting a pointcut).


rotozoomer

I thought about writing a 4ktro for the TI-83 once, but really the only effects you could do would be rotozoomers, wire vectors, and scrollers.

1997, h75h70, “ZShell anyone?”, in rec.games.programmer (Usenet)

Hi all: I have written a rotozoomer that has an average frame rate of about 200fps on a Pentium 90 when writing directly to vram.

1997, Adam Levar, “RotoZoomer frame rates”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet)

(demoscene, computer graphics) An animated visual effect in which a bitmap is scaled and rotated.


spriting

(Internet) The technique of storing multiple images in a single larger image so that they load more quickly into a web page.

(nonstandard, computer graphics) The development of sprites (computer graphics), especially humanoid characters.


dotfile

There is also a dotfile generator, which you can use to create dotfiles for many different programs until you get the hang of it.

2003, James Lee, Brent Ware, Open source Web development with LAMP

In general, a user-defined environment variable can be an effective design choice when the value changes often enough to make editing a dotfile each time […]

2004, Eric S. Raymond, The art of Unix programming

(computing, Unix) A file or directory whose name begins with a dot (period or full stop), typically hidden from view and sometimes used to store configuration settings.


spriter

(nonstandard) One involved in spriting; a designer of sprites (computer graphics).


directed acyclic word graph

directed acyclic word graph (plural directed acyclic word graphs)

(programming) A data structure that represents a set of strings and allows for a query operation that tests whether a given string belongs to the set in time proportional to its length (thus more efficient in some situations than a trie).


varchar

From the data type name, a shortening of variable character.

Be aware that varchars will in general provide slower updates but faster selects. By definition, the amount of storage they use is variable.

1999, David K. Rensin, Andrew M. Fedorchek, William C. Amo, Microsoft SQL Server 7 secrets

With a varchar, the storage is always the actual number of characters you have stored plus 2 bytes. So a varchar(20) with a 5-character word will take up 7 bytes, with the extra 2 bytes holding a size reference for SQL Server.

2008, Eric Johnson, Joshua Jones, A Developer's Guide to Data Modeling for SQL Server

(computing, databases) A text field of indeterminate length in a database, as opposed to the traditional fixed-length field.


Unixy

en-adj

Unixy (comparative more Unixy, superlative most Unixy)

more Unixy (comparative)
most Unixy (superlative)

On the other hand, since dotfiles are a Unixy concept, we're not that concerned.

2000, Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant, Programming Perl

Thing is, all that Unixy stuff is still there; you just can't see it. OS X manages to hide the files from view...

2008, Chris Seibold, Big Book of Apple Hacks

After all, if you want a listing of your local directory, you could use just plain ls (or any reasonable non-Unixy equivalent).

2008, C Michael Pilato, Ben Collins-Sussman, Brian W Fitzpatrick, Version Control with Subversion

(computing, informal) Characteristic or reminiscent of Unix operating systems.


bisimilar

(computer science) Of two state transition systems, such that a bisimulation exists between the two.


fauxtography

/fəʊˈtɒɡɹəfi/

/fəʊˈtɑɡɹəfi/

Coined by webloggers around the time of the July 2006 Israel–Hezbollah War in Lebanon in criticism of the manipulated images of the conflict published by journalistic outlets: blend of faux and photography; compare fauxtograph. (This term is attested prior to July 2006, chiefly in use for company names, without an established meaning, and probably coined independently.)

Also, fauxtography, coined by bloggers writing about the Israel–Lebanon conflict in summer 2006 to describe both the deceptive modification of pictures by newswire photojournalists and the intentional staging of tragic scenes for propagandistic photos in the media.

2006, The New Atlantis, numbers 12-14, Washington, D.C.: Ethics and Public Policy Center, page 146

Various bloggers have uncovered several cases of fauxtography in Reuters’ photo coverage of the Israel–Hezbollah conflict.

2007 November 5, Aaron Peckham, Mo’ Urban Dictionary: Ridonkulous Street Slang Defined, Andrews McMeel Publishing, page 103

2007 November 28, Cynthia Baron, Adobe Photoshop Forensics: Sleuths, Truths, and Fauxtography, main title (illustrated edition; Course Technology Printer; →ISBN, 9781598634051)

Bloggers noted that when, in February 2005, California’s Barbara Boxer gave a speech on the floor of the Senate, she held in her hands notes that were a printout from BradDeLong.com, the eponymous blog by a professor of economics at UC, Berkeley. Conversely, mainstream photojournalism was shaken to its core by right-wing bloggers who pointed out errors, malfeasance, inconsistencies, miscaptions, and outright fakery in press “fauxtography” from the 2006 Israel–Lebanon war.

2008, David D. Perlmutter, Blogwars, Oxford University Press, page xiii

(chiefly Internet) Misleading presentation of images for propagandistic or otherwise ulterior purposes, involving staging, deceptive modification, or the addition or omission of significant context.


prebuffer

en-verb

prebuffer (third-person singular simple present prebuffers, present participle prebuffering, simple past and past participle prebuffered)

prebuffers (present singular third-person)
prebuffering (participle present)
prebuffered (participle past)
prebuffered (past)

(computing, transitive) To place into a buffer in preparation for later retrieval or playback.


gameworld

As an “all-female” humanoid species not bound to the traditional forms of mating, in that they reproduce through a form of telepathic parthenogenesis, the design of the Asari collapses boundaries of sex and sexuality. The Asari are a species rendered as Other, even in comparison to the various beings populating the gameworld. Characters recognize and struggle against prejudice and limited understanding of Asari customs, culture, and practices. These gameworld features allow for a space where awareness and exploration of sexualities outside of the heterosexual binary can take place.

2015, Summer Glassie, “"Embraced eternity lately?": Mislabeling and subversion of sexuality labels through the Asari in the Mass Effect trilogy”, in Matthew Wysocki, Evan W. Lauteria, editors, Rated M for Mature: Sex and Sexuality in Video Games (Media Studes / Game Studies), Bloomsbury Publishing, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 162

(roleplaying games, video games) The fictional universe of a game.


form feed

(computing) A control character traditionally used to cause the printer to eject the current page of output and start a new page, more recently equivalent to a carriage return.


AVL

(computing) Initialism of Adelson-Velsky and Landis. (name of the three inventors of the data structure called an AVL tree)


autoloader

(computing) A mechanical device that automatically loads storage media (such as tapes or disks) into the device that can read them.

(programming) A software mechanism that automatically locates and loads classes etc. as required at run time.


seiso

en-adjective

seiso (comparative more seiso, superlative most seiso)

more seiso (comparative)
most seiso (superlative)

From Japanese 清楚(せいそ) (seiso, “clean, tidy”).

I thought Pekora was a pure seiso girl. How could she retweet this?

i’ve been streaming for a while and i’m pretty seiso. i don’t enjoy top/bottom jokes or being lewd in general although being slightly sexy is okay.

(VTuber fandom slang) Pure, proper, and wholesome, especially in the sense of being non-sexual.


outway

That is, the "internal junctions" of various classical models will not be distinguished from the outways of the net; alternatively, every element outway could be a net outway.

1970, B Beizer, “Towards a new theory of sequential switching networks”, in IEEE Transactions on Computers

A parallel multiplier could theoretically be realized as a two-level multiple-outway combinational network, but its cost would be prohibitive.

1975, AR Meo, IEEE Transactions on Computers

Another object is to provide a communication system which provides for two-way communication between a central station and one or more outway stations wherein the outway stations are both controlled and powered by radiant energy directed thereto from the central station

1987, JH Lemelson, Communication system and method (US Patent 4,710,977)

(Internet) The path outbound from the LAN (Local Area Network) to the WAN (Wide Area Network).


RHIP

(military, Internet) Initialism of "rank has its privilege" or "rank hath its privileges".


stiffware

(computing, rare, derogatory) Software that is inflexible, cannot be customized or upgraded, etc.


Microhoo

If it manages to win over Yahoo, the combined entity (already dubbed Microhoo on the Net) would be another behemoth, not only controlling e-mail and instant messenger (over 90 per cent share), but also standing significantly taller in the fight against Google.

2008 February 18, Sunit Arora, Arindam Mukherjee, “Knock Knock... MS Hoo”, in Outlook, volume 48, number 7, page 53

Facing the Possibility of Microhoo!

Yahoo's systems are based heavily on Open Source. If Microsoft keeps them that way, it will lose credibility with customers.

2008, Lawrence D'Oliveiro, “Microhoo prognostications”, in nz.comp (Usenet)

MS is desperate to find something new that others might play catchup to, with little success. Their approach has almost always been claim jumping ("A market without competition, isn't."). That is hardly working for them anymore (witness Zune, Microhoo).

2008, Matt, “[News] Ogg is Coming to Hundreds of Millions of PCs!!”, in comp.os.linux.advocacy (Usenet)

You made a really, really bad move getting in bed with microhoo, and it will cost you in the end.

2011, unknown author, “Went back to 3.5”, in mozilla.feedback.firefox (Usenet)

(computing, humorous) The company that would be formed by the acquisition of Yahoo! by Microsoft (the potential result of a merger proposed in the mid-2000s).


Codies

Five power-packed pages of game thrills - more than ever before! On the Powertape: Astroclone (Hewson)! Sea Battles (Atlantis!). Skull & Crossbones demo (Tengen)! On The Run (Design Design)! Soccer Cup Quizmaster (Powertape)! and Pokemania! Plus (gasp!) on your Codies tape: Phantomas, Dizzy, BMX Simulator and Fruit Machine Simulator! Blimey!

1989 June, “Contents”, in Crash, number 89, published 1991

The Codies seem to take great delight in mistreating their little pet egg, Dizzy. He's been thumped, kicked, bashed, scrambled and dropped in his games so far. Now the cruel so and sos want to drown him.

1992, James Leach, Bubble Dizzy (game review in Your Sinclair magazine issue 74, February 1992)

Well, obviously it was since they're now got an interview with a codies rep, however, suggesting a May release.

2002, Rod Prince, “Adelaide Clipsal 500 and Codemasters”, in rec.autos.simulators (Usenet)

(informal, video games) The video game development company Codemasters (formerly Code Masters).


dead code

Many software projects contain much dead code in the form of deprecated functions.

If the test data is exhaustive you can even locate dead code: program code that is never executed.

2003, Diomidis Spinellis, Code Reading: The Open Source Perspective, Addison-Wesley Professional, page 372

(programming) A portion of source code that will never be executed as part of the running program.


epic

From Middle French épique, from Latin epicus, from Ancient Greek ἐπικός (epikós), from ἔπος (épos, “word, story”).

Epics are shown in a separate list from user stories. This is because it is the user stories that are developed, not epics. Epics are decomposed into child user stories.

2019, Leslie Munday, Using Agile In A Quality Driven Environment, page 56

(software engineering) A large or extended user story.


infinite loop

(programming) A loop which continues indefinitely.


BBN

en-noun

BBN (countable and uncountable, plural BBNs)

(computing) Initialism of bulletin board network.


hostmaster

(Internet) A person responsible for managing domain name records within the Domain Name System or any individual computer (typically a server).


extinctionism

(video games) The additional challenge, in playing a roguelike game, of killing all creatures to extinction.


metaspace

metaspace (countable and uncountable, plural metaspaces)

(computing theory) The conceptual space occupied by metaobjects.


extinctionist

What an Extinctionist tries to do is completely eliminate as many kinds of monsters from the game as possible, either through genocide if it's available, or from just depleting all the kinds of monsters that can be produced.

2020, John Harris, Exploring Roguelike Games, CRC Press

(video games) A player who plays a roguelike game with the additional challenge of killing all creatures to extinction.


Blogistan

From c. 2001 (see quotations), formed from blog + -stan.

Blogistan is a newer coinage, appearing after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. By attacking to blog the suffix -stan, which means "land" or "place of" in Farsi and related languages, the word successfully conveys the idea that blogs in Blogistan are concerned with matters in the Stans, among them Afghanistan and Pakistan.]

[2006, Grant Barrett, “Tongue in Groove: The Blogistan Lexicon”, in The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang

Blogs of Iran (where the suffix -stan originated) and nearby regions.

The Boston Globe's Alex Beam dismisses the blogosphere with typical liberal hauteur: "Welcome to Blogistan, the Internet-based journalistic medium where no thought goes unpublished, no long-out-of-print book goes unhawked, and no fellow 'blogger,' no matter how outré, goes unpraised."


paper cut

(software) a paper cut bug: a bug which causes harm and would be easy to fix.


dither

en-verb

dither (third-person singular simple present dithers, present participle dithering, simple past and past participle dithered)

dithers (present singular third-person)
dithering (participle present)
dithered (participle past)
dithered (past)

Variant of didder, from Middle English dideren (“to tremble”). Compare Middle English bididren, bididdren (“to seduce, deceive”), from Old English bedidrian, bedyderian (“to deceive, trick”).
Alternatively, perhaps with expressive voicing from *titeren, from Proto-Germanic *titrōną. If so a doublet of teeter and cognate with Old High German zittarōn (German zittern) and Old Norse titra (Faroese titra, Icelandic titra). Alternatively an unrelated reduplicative onomatopoeia.

(computer graphics) To render an approximation of (an image or graphic) by using dot patterns to simulate the appearance of colors or shades not in the system palette.

koostaa

(computing, graphics) to render an approximation of


dither

en-noun

dither (countable and uncountable, plural dithers)

(computer graphics) The use of dot patterns to approximate colors not available in the palette.

sirottelu

computer graphics: use of dot patterns to approximate colors not available in the palette


minimin

(economics, computer science, decision theory) A strategy or algorithm that seeks to minimize the minimum possible result.


Javalike

en-adj

Javalike (comparative more Javalike, superlative most Javalike)

more Javalike (comparative)
most Javalike (superlative)

In contrast, C# is C++ extended with Javalike features, including automatic memory and object lifetime management...

2000 September 4, Infoworld, volume 22, number 36

For just-in-time (JIT) compilation for Javalike systems, register allocation is also critical...

2003, Y N Srikant, Priti Shankar, The compiler design handbook: optimizations and machine code generation

programming language
programming language

(computing) Resembling the Java programming language or some aspect of it.


unicast

In this paper, we describe a model of multicast service we call host groups and propose this model as a way to support multicast in the DARPA Internet environment [14]. We argue that it is feasible to implement this facility as an extension of the existing "unicast" IP datagram model and mechanism.

1985 December 30, S. E. Deering, D. R. Cheriton, “Host Groups: A Multicast Extension to the Internet Protocol”, in Internet Engineering Task Force Request for Comments number 966, archived from the original on 2001-12-25

(computing, networking) Being the transmission of messages to a single destination host on a packet switching network.


unicast

en-verb

unicast (third-person singular simple present unicasts, present participle unicasting, simple past and past participle unicasted or unicast)

unicasts (present singular third-person)
unicasting (participle present)
unicasted (participle past)
unicasted (past)
unicast (participle past)
unicast (past)

(computing, networking) To transmit in this manner.


subsubroutine

Audio (UK)

Some programming languages even permit a subroutine to contain itself as a subsubroutine; a brain-twisting arrangement.

1962, Robert Mills Gagné, Psychological principles in system development

...hierarchies of subroutines and subsubroutines were used by the programmers to simplify their own organization, introducing a series of levels of control...

1965, Robert Engel Machol, Wilson P Tanner, Samuel N Alexander, System engineering handbook

The goal stack mechanism makes it simple to represent hierarchical procedures, where routines call subroutines, which in turn call subsubroutines...

1990, Kurt VanLehn, Mind bugs: the origins of procedural misconceptions

(computing, rare) A subroutine called from another subroutine.


megaflops

floating point operation
floating point operation

(computing) a measure of the speed of a computer; one million floating point operations per second.


totalistic

BTW: Of course the rules were parametrised, so any totalistic 2-dimensional 9-neighbourhood CA could be run.

1989 March 21, Mark Kramer, “Fast LIFE (was: Re: summing 9-cell neighborhoods)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

Note that the game of life is not totalistic: the transition function depends on the cell's own state and on the sum of the neighboring states.

1993 January 17, Dan Gordon, “Universal Cellular Automata.”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

The Xor operation drastically cuts down the number of operations when dealing with totalistic CA rules. For example, a function of four variables a, b, c, d, returning 1 iff there are exactly two ones and two zeros among its arguments, is represented by this Karnaugh diagram:

1994 July 3, Serge Winitzki, “Optimizing "bitblt" functions using Xor”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

Having the state of each cell represented by a number, and the value of a cell dependent only on the sum of the values of nearby cells.

Many good applets run Moore binary totalistic rules such as Conway's Life, but WebsideCA also runs von Neumann rules, rules in the "Brian's Brain" family, non-totalistic binary and decay rules, and Cyclic rules.

1999 September 2, J. Elliott, “ANNOUNCE: WebsideCA Java applet update”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

Since Life is totalistic on 8 neighbours, this requires no extra assumptions.

2000 August 20, Gerard Vriens, “Discussion: neighbourhoods”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

... but the B/S notation is _the_ standard for two-state totalistic rules.

2001 October 31, Erik Francis, “Four new rules with replicators”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)


graphician

From graphic + -ian, probably by analogy with musician.

I have a demogroup called Kontio and we need a graphician, who can make 2D and 3D. Our website is not yet online, but it will be someday. Contact me, if you are interested!!

2000, Teemu Lahti, “We need a graphician”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet)

Darkage is desperatly searching for a graphician!

1998, Lars Sobiraj, “graphician wanted!”, in alt.amiga.demos (Usenet)

(computing, nonstandard, chiefly demoscene) A designer of graphics for computer software.


nonfree

Furthermore, if software released under the GNU General Public Licence (GPL) were combined with proprietary (nonfree) code, the resultant combination had to be released under the GPL.

2002, Glyn Moody, Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution, Perseus Pub., page 27

However, if you have developed an application that requires MySQL for its functionality and you want to sell your software with MySQL under a nonfree license, you must purchase a commercial license from MySQL AB.

2008, Russell Dyer, MySQL in a Nutshell, O'Reilly Media, Inc., page 5

The following licenses do not qualify as free software licenses as defined by the FSF. A nonfree license is automatically incompatible with the GNU GPL.

2010, Dave Douglas, Gregory Michael Papadopoulos, Citizen Engineer, Prentice Hall, page 169

(software) With copyright restrictions that prevent unrestricted distribution or reuse.

onvrij

with copyright restrictions that prevent unrestricted distribution or reuse


IG

Rap bitches tell their team: "Make em like Barbie" / Had to come off IG so they can't stalk me

2018, Nicki Minaj, "Barbie Tingz", Queen (Target version)

One day I was lurkin' on IG, thirsty, full of the purple

2020, Moneybagg Yo, “Match My Fly”, in Time Served

Face ID on me, white programmer so they don’t see it’s me / Got fans on me, IG story, know where I be

2021, “On Me”, in Parallel World, performed by Cadence Weapon


IG

(video games, slang) Abbreviation of in-game.