chatiquette

Each chat room functions in accordance with its own rules. They may be written rules in the form of chatiquette. Chatiquette prescribes what behavior is frowned upon and what the sanctions are.

2006, Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media

As long as no one causes any offence to others in the room, and adheres to the basic rules of 'chatiquette', they can then remain in that room for as long as they wish, or until everyone else has left the room.

Chatiquette is similar to netiquette in terms of the words and behavior acceptable while participating in a chat room.

2013, Irene Joos, Ramona Nelson, Marjorie J. Smith, Introduction to Computers for Healthcare Professionals, page 479

Never forget that a bipolar chat room has also its own rules, chatiquette, and guidelines. It is very important to understand it.

(Internet) The etiquette dictating how one should behave in chat rooms.


vlogging

(Internet) The keeping of a vlog (video weblog).


Bethe lattice

(graph theory) A kind of connected cycle-free graph.


object graph

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

(software, object-oriented programming) A view of an object system at a particular point in time that details the relationships between class instances.


antireplay

(computer security) Preventing replay attacks.


DaaS

(computing) Acronym of Data as a Service.

(computing) Acronym of Desktop as a Service.

(computing) Acronym of Device as a Service.


SaaS

(computing) Acronym of Software as a Service.

hamakargčʻayin cragrayin apahovum, orpes caṙayutʻyun

համակարգչային ծրագրային ապահովում՝ որպես ծառայություն


relational model

en-noun

relational model (plural relational models)

(databases) A database model that is based on first-order predicate logic.


blogorrhea

Blend of blog + logorrhea, or possibly blog and diarrhea.

Most blogs fail because beginning bloggers don't understand that it's difficult to come up with new content day in and day out. Sure, it's easy enough to post a "Didn't do anything today" lament or a "Don't feel like writing today" sigh. But post too much of this content-free blogorrhea—or, sin of sins in the blogging community, don't post at all for long periods—and your blog is as good as dead.

2004, Paul McFedries, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Web Page & Blog, Alpha Books, page 237

It’s a surprisingly robust masthead, considering that the entire operation produces about 1,500 words a day—barely a peep in the days of unrelieved blogorrhea and Web-wide word bloat.

2006 May 1, Michael Idov, “How Sweet Is It?”, in New York

Not every blogger writes confessional kiss-and-tell posts or records the dinner menu—the blogosphere is not all blogorrhea and mystery meat.

2009, Dennis Baron, A Better Pencil: Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution, Oxford University Press, page 166

stream-of-consciousness
stream of consciousness

Excessive, compulsive, or stream-of-consciousness blogging, especially over trivial matters.


bacn

Coined at PodCamp Pittsburgh 2, 2007, modelled on spam (junk mail, or a meat product) and bacon.

Examples of bacn email are: bank statement notifications, e-news alerts from companies, newsletters ...

2008, Bill Young, Webplicity 2.0: The Critical Guide to Successful Web Strategies, iUniverse, page 100

5 dump your bacn This is the term for e-mail newsletters you've subscribed to. Kill them off Monday morning. A study by MessageGate estimates up to 30 percent of e-mails are bacn.

2008 January–February, “70 Ways to Improve Every Day of the Week”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 134

In other words, they're messages that you want to read eventually, just not right now. Clearing away the bacon automatically can help you drill down to what's important more quickly.

2010, Gina Trapani, Upgrade Your Life: The Lifehacker Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, Better, John Wiley & Sons, page 35

Rather than let bacn accumulate and ruin an otherwise pleasant day, ...

2011, Ryan Teeter, Karl Barksdale, Google Apps for Dummies, John Wiley & Sons

The smart labels feature essentially focuses on "bacn," that brand of e-mail that people subscribe to and generally want to read -- but don't have time for right now.

2011 March 9, John D. Sutter, “Google 'smart labels' aim to de-stress e-mail”, in CNN, retrieved 2013-03-16

(Internet, informal) Non-spam email messages that have been signed up for, but which the recipient does not necessarily want or have time to read.


didcap

Blend of DID (short for damsel in distress) and vidcap.

(Internet, informal) A vidcap depicting a damsel in distress.


navigation mesh

navigation mesh (plural navigation meshes)

We used a navigation mesh to describe the paths that can be followed by computer-controlled characters in our video game.

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

(computing) A data structure used in artificial intelligence applications to aid agents in pathfinding through large spaces. It is a collection of two-dimensional convex polygons.


Famiclone

You may also see very unauthorized Famiclones — third-party, unlicensed NES joysticks, sometimes with an attached light gun and not as many games as the packaging says.

2005, Simon Carless, Gaming Hacks, page 34

Like keyboard-based Famiclones today, these early home computers were also commonly connected to a TV display[…]

2009, James Derek Lomas, The social movement laboratory

(informal, video games) Any electronic hardware designed to replicate the Nintendo Entertainment System video game console.


animutation

animutation (countable and uncountable, plural animutations)

Think you're cool sayin' "All Your Base"? / Get that Xiao Xiao outta my face / You gotta be kidding me with that crap / Animutation's where it's at

2003 April 5, Neil Cicierega (lyrics and music), “Hyakugojyuuichi 2003”, in Clown Circus, performed by Lemon Demon

It's no fun to watch animutations when the music doesn't even line up! I think this is a performance issue[…]

2003, Greg Courville, “Flash Player”, in alt.linux (Usenet)

Animutation is satire, irony, and social criticism […]

2009, Marcel Danesi, X-rated!: the power of mythic symbolism in popular culture, page 109

He is also the creator of a genre of Flash animation known as animutation.

2011, Greg Jarboe, YouTube and Video Marketing: An Hour a Day

(Internet) A form of Web-based computer animation characterized by unpredictable montages of pop culture images set to music.


keyboard smash

keyboard smash (plural keyboard smashes)

Schlachthofbronx – no, that wasn’t a keyboard smash of excitement at seeing M.I.A. Live, that was just the name of her support act, […]

2010 November 15, Tabitha Thorlu-Bangura, “Gigs this week 15.11.10”, in Leeds Student

All of my attempted heartfelt, nod-worthy and Amen-pulling sentences get interrupted with keyboard smashes. "The Pirates, for the first time in two decades, came so close to a winning season they jksdfj welkfjaf;lkjawe;flk awef;lkwejfj--"

2012 October, Virginia Montanez, “Oh the Humanity!”, in Pittsburgh Magazine

In fact, half the time the lyrics are distinctly English, other times Rønnenfelt’s accent makes it sound like he’s attempting to enunciate a keyboard smash.

2013, Kate Clark, "Iceage holds nothing back on sophomore album", The North Wind (Northern Michigan University), 21 February 2013

(Internet slang) A seemingly random and unintelligible string of characters, as produced by smashing a keyboard.


shitpost

BTW, that was an extremely annoying SHITpost. If you want to send people ecrypted messages why don't you try direct e-mail?

1994 July 16, Psyched, “RE:pbmtofig1.0.tar.Z”, in comp.graphics (Usenet), retrieved 2018-01-11, message-ID <925.47617813.InfoPort@infoport.com>

How is it, all you *would be* flame *specialists*, have to bring a sexual dimension into your shitpost.

1996 October 29, BINKy [username], “Re: I'm getting bored”, in alt.life.sucks (Usenet)

Every time you see a "here's how to get rich" shitpost, put some cash in the bank. After 6 months, marvel at how much you've suddenly managed to save.....

2001 January 27, Eddie, “But this is better”, in alt.tv.simpsons (Usenet)

It'll make the newsgroups much easier to navigate when you don't see shitposts all over the place.

2008 November 12, CHUCK_key, “Re: 145 days of Nostra”, in alt.music.judas-priest (Usenet)

(Internet slang, vulgar, derogatory) A worthless or superficially meaningless post on a message board, newsgroup, or other online discussion platform. Often with the intended effect of derailing or otherwise distracting from relevant conversation.

(Internet slang, humorous) A seemingly worthless or superficially meaningless image, video or piece of text posted to a social media platform that is intended to be humorously or ironically enjoyed.


videobombing

(Internet) The practice or phenomenon of making an unexpected appearance in a video, especially with the deliberate intention of ruining it.


convenience class

convenience class (plural convenience classes)

(object-oriented programming) A class created for convenience so that some other, more complex task is simplified.


convenience method

convenience method (plural convenience methods)

(object-oriented programming) A method created for convenience so that some other, more complex task can be solved more easily.


antisniffing

Antisniffing software can be used on a switched network to sense packet sniffers.

2010, Ec-Council, Fundamentals and Protocols [With Access Code]

(computer security) Preventing sniffing (interception of network packets)


transcompiler

(computing) A translating compiler that takes the source code of a programming language as its input and outputs the source code into either another programming language or an older version of the same language.


polyself

(video games, roguelikes) The transformation of one's own character into another type of creature.


polyself

en-verb

polyself (third-person singular simple present polyselfs, present participle polyselfing, simple past and past participle polyselfed)

polyselfs (present singular third-person)
polyselfing (participle present)
polyselfed (participle past)
polyselfed (past)

(video games, roguelikes, intransitive) To transform one's own character into another type of creature.


nearline

(computing) Having a level of availability somewhere between online and offline, typically using removable media.


LEAP

w:Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol

(computing) Initialism of Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol.


backjump

(computing theory) A jump from one level of an algorithm to another, used in backjumping.


XSD

XML Schema Definition
w:XML Schema Definition

(computing, Internet) Initialism of XML Schema Definition.


destage

destage (third-person singular simple present destages, present participle destaging, simple past and past participle destaged)

destages (present singular third-person)
destaging (participle present)
destaged (participle past)
destaged (past)

A root item of data is located, and then a working set of data is collected by identifying additional data in the cache that will be destaged to locations in the storage device adjacent to the root item of data.

(computing) To asynchronously write new or updated data from a cache or nonvolatile storage to a direct access storage device.


ODA

Open Data-Center Alliance
w:Open Data Center Alliance

(computing) Initialism of Open Data-Center Alliance.

Open Design Alliance
w:Open Design Alliance

(computing) Initialism of Open Design Alliance.

Open Document Architecture
w:Open Document Architecture

(computing) Initialism of Open Document Architecture.


CXF

(computing, Internet, initialism) Apache Celtix and XFire project names, which is an open-source, fully featured Web services framework.


MOLAP

(computing) Acronym of Multidimensional Online Analytical Processing.


ROLAP

Relational Online Analytical Processing
w:ROLAP

(computing) Acronym of Relational Online Analytical Processing.


HOLAP

/eɪt͡ʃ əʊ ɛl eɪ piː/

Hybrid Online Analytical Processing
w:HOLAP

(computing) Acronym of Hybrid Online Analytical Processing.


esolang

esoteric programming language
esoteric programming language#English

(programming) Clipping of esoteric programming language.


binary system

Quantum cryptography is one of the first applications of quantum physics, which is expected to replace today's binary system of computing, in which data is represented in series of ones and zeros.

2004 January 28, Jennifer L. Schenker, “A quantum leap in codes for secure transmissions”, in New York Times, retrieved 2013-04-10

(mathematics, computing) A numeric system with a base of 2, using only the numerals 0 and 1.

二進制

math, computing: numeric system with base 2


social sharing

2012, social sharing, Oxford Dictionaries Online. Oxford University Press.
mobile technology and social sharing have reshaped the media industry in recent years

(Internet, neologism) The general practice of sharing content from the internet on social media websites or applications.


snapin

snap + in, suggesting a component that clicks into place.

(computing, Microsoft Windows) A software plug-in.


unpublish

unpublish (third-person singular simple present unpublishes, present participle unpublishing, simple past and past participle unpublished)

unpublishes (present singular third-person)
unpublishing (participle present)
unpublished (participle past)
unpublished (past)

To unpublish a calendar: 1. In the Applications folder, double-click the iCal icon to open the application. The main iCal window opens; in the Calendars section on the left, published calendars have a small mark to the right of their names […]

Burns' political sentiments were already clearly delineated in 'A Dream' and no amount of etiquette could unpublish that poem.

2011, Patrick Scott Hogg, Robert Burns: The Patriot Bard

You unpublish a category to hide it from display on the front end of the website.

2013, Ric Shreves, Joomla! Bible, page 342

(transitive, chiefly computing) To remove (something previously published) from circulation; to retract.


disklabel

(computing) A record on a hard disk or other storage device, holding information about the location of the partitions on the disk.


overlink

overlink (third-person singular simple present overlinks, present participle overlinking, simple past and past participle overlinked)

overlinks (present singular third-person)
overlinking (participle present)
overlinked (participle past)
overlinked (past)

(Internet, transitive) To use too many hyperlinks.


graphics tablet

en-noun

graphics tablet (plural graphics tablets)

(computing) An input device that enables a user to draw images by hand, as if with a pencil, and import them into a computer system.


JAR

(file format, Java programming language) Initialism of Java archive.

file format; Java programming language; file format; Java programming language


JDT

(Java programming language, eclipse, software) Initialism of Java Development Tools.

Java programming language; eclipse; Java programming language; eclipse


ARPANET

ARPANET (canonical)
the ARPANET (canonical)

/ˈɑɹ.pəˌnɛt/

From earlier ARPA (“Advanced Research Projects Agency”) with net for network.

ARPANET went online in September, 1969, and connected four computers located in California and Utah.

2001, Bryan Pfaffenberger, Computers in Your Future, Pearson College Division, page 267

The ARPANET was especially important to the Internet project, and was often called the backbone network because it was the central WAN that tied researchers together.

2007, Douglas Comer, The Internet Book […], Prentice Hall

It allowed the ARPANET, a single network, to develop into the Internet—an internetwork of hundreds of thousands of networks.

2009, John Cassidy, Dot.Con […], Harper Collins, page 17

w:Advanced Research Projects Agency Network

(military, networking) Initialism of Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (the world's first operational packet-switching network)


MID

(computing) Initialism of mobile information device.


netmask

(computing) The routing prefix of a network address.


classful

Classful routing protocols do not carry subnet masks; classless routing protocols do.

2002, Ravi Malhotra, IP Routing, page 101

(computing, Internet) Of or relating to a network-addressing architecture that divides the address space into a number of classes.


writethrough

writethrough (countable and uncountable, plural writethroughs)

(computing) An operation in which data written to a cache is then immediately copied to permanent storage, ensuring that cache and storage are always in agreement.


stylable

en-adj

stylable (comparative more stylable, superlative most stylable)

more stylable (comparative)
most stylable (superlative)

The following sets whether the text is editable (can be changed), selectable (can be selected for copying), or stylable (can use multiple fonts, styles, or sizes).

1993, Neil Rhodes, Julie McKeehan, Symantec C++ programming for the Macintosh, page 535

Newer versions of IE from 9 onward recognize these newer HTML elements natively and don't require the script to make them stylable.

2012, Craig Cook, Jason Garber, Foundation HTML5 with CSS3, page 339

(computing) Capable of being formatted with styles.


control structure

en-noun

control structure (plural control structures)

Coordinate term: data structure

In C++ you can and often will nest control structures: place one conditional within another; put a loop within another loop; have a conditional within a loop; and so forth.

2005, Larry Ullman, Andreas Signer, C++ Programming: Visual QuickStart Guide, Pearson Education

(programming) A structure used to direct the flow of execution of a program.


the cake is a lie

From the 2007 video game Portal, in which a self-aware computer, GLaDOS, lures the player into participating in dangerous experiments with the promise of cake. As the game progresses, the player discovers graffiti left by Doug Rattman, the only known scientist alive since GLaDOS killed all the others with neurotoxin, with the graffiti including the warning "the cake is a lie".

The jokes are cake, and the cake is a lie — fan-service tricking nerds into watching a show designed for adults who vote Republican (Middle America!).

2011 December 15, Nick Martin, “A Hit Sitcom In Just Five Easy Steps!”, in Buzz Weekly, page 6

The assumption that a degree will vastly improve future earnings is increasingly misleading. By their very nature high paid jobs are exclusive and limited in number. "The cake is a lie."

2012, James Margeson, "The quiet assault on public education", The Sphinx (University of Liverpool), March 2012, page 9

“One shitty leader doesn't mean the cake is a lie. One man's decisions don't invalidate everything else—the ideals, the history, the words etched in marble and the sacrifices of all the people who make the United States a just and safe place to live.”

2012 November 12, J. L. Hilton, Stellarnet Prince, Carina Press, page 320

(Internet slang) The end being pursued is unattainable or misguided; the reward promised is false.


netboot

Non-Intel architectures have historically included netboot capabilities that Red Hat Linux supports.

2003, Sobell, A practical guide to Red Hat Linux eight, page 392

Several PXE-based netboot systems exist[…]

2006, Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Trent R. Hein, Linux Administration Handbook, page 226

(computing) The booting of a system from a network.


screenlet

(computing) A visual widget or small application that can be placed on the desktop.


coprocess

(computing) A process that explicitly yields control to other processes or to the operating system.


unmaximize

en-verb

unmaximize (third-person singular simple present unmaximizes, present participle unmaximizing, simple past and past participle unmaximized)

unmaximizes (present singular third-person)
unmaximizing (participle present)
unmaximized (participle past)
unmaximized (past)

To maximize or unmaximize a window, click the button in the upper right corner. On Windows, you can minimize, maximize, or close a window by clicking one of the three buttons located in the upper right corner of each window.

2003, Kim English, Community Geography: GIS in Action, page 278

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(transitive, computing, graphical user interface) To restore (a window) from a maximized state.


meta key

(computing) A special key on some kinds of keyboard, used to activate keyboard shortcuts.


link bait

From link + -bait (manipulation to elicit a particular response).

af

Sustainable link bait is rooted in quality content.

2007, Amelia Painter, Opening and Operating a Bed & Breakfast in the 21st Century, page 183

A good link bait tool will create 'brand evangelists' — people who will talk positively about you.

2009, Susan Rice Lincoln, Mastering Web 2.0

Link bait content is typically written about a hot, real-time topic such as breaking news.

2011, Susan Gunelius, Content Marketing For Dummies, page 53

I've seen link bait succeed in the form of a downloadable scientific research paper, and I've seen it succeed in the form of a picture of a golden retriever in a tutu.

(Internet marketing) Articles, infographics, videos, and other content on websites created as part of a strategy to attract links and go viral.

Many bloggers write false story headings about search topics that are trending as well, resulting in high bounce rates, abandonment by subscribers, and raising the ire of other bloggers in the industry. You should never write false headings or try to manipulate your readers with link bait.

2010, Douglas Karr, Chantelle Flannery, Corporate Blogging For Dummies, page 384

Link bait is content or a feature on a website that is expressly designed to get users' attention so they click through to another website.

2014, Sunni Brown, The Doodle Revolution: Unlock the Power to Think Differently

There is also content that appears on the bottom of many websites with link bait type headlines like, "See the Dinner Hack that Millennials are Crazy for."

2017, Jayne Barnett, Advertising Nuggets

Further black hat examples could be misleading link bait from ads for poorly targeted news articles, clicking on links spawning extra windows, or simply only dealing with robots (in a shady way).

2017, Anne Ahola Ward, The SEO Battlefield, page 22

(Internet marketing, nonstandard) Provocative headlines designed specifically to persuade people to click or share by using loaded terminology (e.g. incredible, secret, shocking, unbelievable), posing provocative questions, or tying themselves in to hot topics.


unminimize

en-verb

unminimize (third-person singular simple present unminimizes, present participle unminimizing, simple past and past participle unminimized)

unminimizes (present singular third-person)
unminimizing (participle present)
unminimized (participle past)
unminimized (past)

(transitive, computing, graphical user interface) To restore (a window) from a minimized state.


XACML

(computing) Initialism of eXtensible Access Control Markup Language.


boot storm

(computing) The situation where many users attempt to boot their computers at the same time, causing excessive demand on the network.


creational pattern

en-noun

creational pattern (plural creational patterns)

(computing, design) A design pattern that standardizes the mechanisms of object creation.


structural pattern

structural pattern (plural structural patterns)

(computing, design) A design pattern that makes it easier to create relationships between entities.


FSVO

(mathematics, programming, Internet slang) Initialism of for some values of.


pseudoblock

A pseudoblock surrounding the whole source program can be initialized before actual translation with the entries for standard functions and variables, so that these don't have to be treated separately.

1971, David Gries, Compiler construction for digital computers, page 229

(computing, programming) A construct that resembles a block of source code but is not a true block.


IOSAPIC

(computing) Input/Output Streamlined Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller.


library sort

By analogy with a librarian who leaves gaps between books so that inserting a new book does not require moving so many of the existing books.

(computing theory) A form of insertion sort that leaves gaps between elements to accelerate subsequent insertions.


pseudoselector

But some elements are not necessarily found in the document markup, such as which links have been visited or the first line of a paragraph. To apply style to these instances in a document, CSS provides several pseudoselectors.

2009, Jennifer Niederst Robbins, Web Design in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference

(computing, Internet, Cascading Style Sheets) A kind of selector that identifies something not explicitly labelled in the document markup.


RMAN

(databases, Oracle) Acronym of Recovery Manager.


my body is ready

From an impromptu comment made by Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime while volunteering to try the Wii Balance Board during a demonstration of Wii Fit at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in 2007.

I noticed many innuendos that the general children’s audience may not pick up; “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” with Nala and Simba? I sure did, especially when she gave Simba the “my body is ready” face towards the end of the song.

2011, Phaedra Brady, "Hakuna Matata, what a wonderful flick", The Eye (Palm Harbor University High School), 3 October 2011

My grand idea is to slip the handsome James Dean look-alike in my History class a note that says "My body is ready, do me."

2012, Tanya Paz, "February Goes Down The Shitter", The Union Weekly (California State University, Long Beach), Volume 70, Issue 4, 13 February 2012, page 4

Then I found Trent University. Having heard rumours that it was "the gayest school in Canada", I burned with a newfound resolve – the conviction that this was the time and place where I would finally grow to be more than a straight young white guy. Finally I would go beyond the existence of a one-dimensional character in a pre-1960's middle class novel about the racial majority.
Introductory Seminar Week: my body is ready. This is it. This is when everyone lets loose. I can't let this opportunity slip away… […]

2013, Flavius S. Mercurius, "Coming Out of the Closet: A Story", Arthur (Trent University), Volume 47, Issue 13 (satire edition), 7 January 2013

(chiefly Internet slang) Used to express preparation for and excitement over something, especially sex.

Electronic Entertainment Expo
Wii Balance Board


cheeseware

Perhaps most important, it has removed us even further from the "gee whiz!" mind-set that dominated our first reactions to computing--a frame of mind that made us so appreciative of the wondrous complexity of those putty-colored boxes that we became vulnerable to the half-baked, the beta, and even the well-marketed cheeseware.

2000 September 1, “The New Computers in School”, in Strategic Finance

Many of the games they stock now are already in the mini-boxes, new titles not just cheeseware.

2002 January 3, John Capriotti, “Re: Walmart: Games in DVD cases??”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action (Usenet)

To run the AOL cheeseware on more than one machine at once (why, FFS, I have no idea) you need more "screen names" whatever they may be.

2005 August 9, Phil Thompson, “Re: AOL Broadband”, in uk.telecom.broadband (Usenet)

(computing, slang, derogatory) Exceptionally low-quality software.


release mode

release mode (countable and uncountable, plural release modes)

(programming) The mode of the compiler where the code is compiled for the end user, most often with optimizations.


debug mode

debug mode (countable and uncountable, plural debug modes)

(programming) The mode of a compiler or IDE that allows for debugging, with the availability of information such as variable names and line numbers from the source code.

The debug mode enables full flight around every level, plus you can add a whole mess of objects to the stage at the press of a button.

2017, Jeff Ramos, How to access and use Sonic Mania’s debug mode, Polygon

A "debug mode" is a broad term used to describe a feature or series of features included in a game by the development team to allow quick testing of the game's various features.

2017, Help:Contents/Terminology/Debug Mode, The Cutting Room Floor

(video games) A (usually hidden) tool or set of tools in a video game used in its development and testing, the use of which typically enables players to cheat, modify the game's behaviour, or perform diagnostics.


mix-in

(computing, programming) Alternative form of mixin


shadeset

(computer graphics) A colour scheme that can be applied to a computerized map.


Hollerith card

Named after American inventor Herman Hollerith (1860–1929), who patented machine-readable punch card devices in 1889.


wedgitude

I managed to get into the system, remove the wedgitude and booted properly.

1994, E M Richards, “Thanks”, in comp.unix.aix (Usenet)

There's very little way to keep random obnoxious users, who *think* they know a lot about Macs, from reconfiguring the systems into a state of supreme wedgitude.

1996, Karl A. Krueger, “Call to Support Multiple Users”, in comp.sys.be (Usenet)

Sorry I can't give more detail, I don't remember exactly what I did, either the path to wedgitude or the escape route.

2001, Stephen J. Turnbull, “No such file or directory ????”, in mailing.comp.coda-list (Usenet)

(computing, slang, rare) A state of being stuck or wedged.


VAXocentrism

There's nothing that says that array elements in FORTRAN - or, for that matter, C - have to be contiguous. Thinking that that must be true as a matter of Natural Law is purest VAXocentrism.

1991, Jay Maynard, “Segmented Architectures ( formerly Re: 48-bit computers)”, in comp.arch (Usenet)

i've long insisted that everyone here at NPRI *always* redefine that psect to be readonly under VAX/VMS . . . our code gets ported to other platforms, and it would be definite vaxocentrism to assume that literal strings are writable.

1993, David P. Murphy, “modifying a literal string in C code”, in vmsnet.alpha (Usenet)

(computing, slang, rare) The incorrect assumption that certain behaviours and memory storage conventions of the VAX (a computer system of the 1970s) are applicable on all computer architectures.


flashable

(computing) Capable of being flashed (having its memory rewritten).


brogrammer

At Santa Monica (Calif.)-based Gravity, engineering director Jim Plush is referred to as the “resident brogrammer” and has affixed his computer monitor to a treadmill so he can exercise two to three hours a day while programming.

2012 March 1, Douglas MacMillan, “The Rise of the 'Brogrammer'”, in Bloomberg Businessweek

It started with the 1984 film Revenge of the Nerds. Then came geek chic. Now, "brogrammers" — computer programmers with frat house sensibilities — are hitting the scene.

2012 April 12, Haya El Nasser, “Geek chic: 'Brogrammer?' Now, that's hot”, in USA Today

Experts have pointed to Silicon Valley's "brogrammer" culture and a lack of female role models as contributing to the problem — but women are managing to make huge contributions to the field anyway.

2013 May 29, Dana Liebelson, “5 women busting through the tech industry's glass ceiling”, in The Week

(slang) A male programmer who acts like and has the interests of a frat boy, defying stereotypical conceptions of programmers as shy and nerdy.


kill it with fire

Presumably a reference to the trope of using fire to kill a monster in horror, science fiction, and fantasy, with a notable example being the 1982 film The Thing.

'Look at this! IS GAY THE NEW STRAIGHT? Jesus – she's like a one woman crap factory. Kill it! Kill it with fire!'

2005, Anna Clare, Make You a Man, Black Lace, page 14

But we need to give STL [file format] a headshot. We should kill it. Kill it with fire. Whatever switching costs you may have they will pay for themselves in money saved in storage.

2013 July, Joris Peels, “AMF is no longer only for bowling”, in TCT Magazine, page 15

For me, the victor is the film adaption, which is a masterpiece of one man's conversion. As for the book? Kill it with fire.

2020 January 16, Patrick Ullmer, “The Stack-Up: 'The Hunter'”, in The Spectrum, North Dakota State University, page 7

(Internet slang) Used to express fear, disgust, or strong objection in reaction to something.


absolute instruction

en-noun

absolute instruction (plural absolute instructions)

(computing) An assembly language instruction that uses only absolute addresses.


(programming) Initialism of fourth-generation language, characterized by having its own operating environment (e.g., Foxpro, Mathematica, AMPL).


(programming) Initialism of fifth-generation language: a high-level, constraint-based programming language (e.g. Prolog).


(programming) Initialism of second-generation language, i.e. assembly language.


The 3GLs include C, C++, Java, and Fortran.

(programming) Initialism of third-generation language.


absolute loader

absolute loader (plural absolute loaders)

(computing) A loader that places absolute code into main memory beginning with the initial address assigned by the assembler. No address manipulation is performed.


absolute assembler

absolute assembler (plural absolute assemblers)

(computing) An assembler that generates code that uses only absolute addresses.


absolute code

(computing) Code which uses only absolute addresses.


abstract data type

abstract data type (plural abstract data types)

Coordinate term: algebraic data type

(programming) A data type defined only by data properties and operations to be performed on the data without any specification as to how the data will be represented or the operations performed.


pragmat

(programming) A pragma, or compiler directive, in the ALGOL programming language.


netlag

Unknown thinking, typing, and netlag times make it impossible to tell [whether a participant in online chat is fully attentive].

2002, Lori Kendall (quoting "henri"), Hanging Out in the Virtual Pub: Masculinities and Relationships Online (page 26)

If our test script is deployed live on a faraway web server, with netlag we could fairly easily click the button twice before the response came back[…]

2011, Jonathan Hayward, Django JavaScript Integration: AJAX and jQuery

(computing) The delay arising from communication between networked computers.


netdead

To end your use of the client you can use either this command or possibly ctrl-C. This will leave netdead all of your characters with processes still running.

1996, Joe Pantuso, The Complete Internet Gamer, page 309

(computing) Synonym of link-dead (“in a frozen state due to sudden disconnection”)


About box

So called because traditionally accessed through a menu item labelled Help > About this program or similar.

(computing) A window displaying information about an application, such as its version number and copyright or other licence.

névjegy

a window displaying information about an application


ONT

ONT (countable and uncountable, plural ONTs)

Coordinate term: ONU

optical network terminal
w:Optical Network Terminal

(networking) Initialism of optical network terminal, a modem used to terminate a fiber optic line.


spinup

(computing) The process of a disk drive spinning up.


tweetfest

From tweet (“to post an update to Twitter”) + -fest.

suffix

In a scripted tweetfest, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger questioned Armstrong about his possible participation. Armstrong tweeted, "Absolutely!@schwarzenegger, I've decided to ride the #Amgen Tour of California in 2010. Can't wait. What about you @levileipheimer??"

2009 October 23, Diane Pucin, “Lance Armstrong to ride in the Tour of California”, in Los Angeles Times

Old School was on parade late yesterday morning in a conference room on the second floor of the downtown Sheraton here. Seventy-six-year-old Commissioner Bud Selig, on the job almost 20 years, was on hand to answer questions for the Baseball Writers of America and it felt like we were all stuck in the 1950s.
[…]
This was no new-media tweetfest. If lodge members had been better-dressed and better-looking, we could have been on the set of “Mad Men.’’

2011 July 13, Dan Shaughnessy, “Not a lot of budging by Selig”, in Boston Globe

Had Kerry Katona been snapped getting throttled by her partner outside a Toby Carvery in Warrington, and stayed silent, I’m sure there’d have been a tweetfest about Little Miss Thickoe betraying her gender by failing to report the Neanderthal scumbag.

2013 June 20, Brian Reade, “Nigella Lawson pictures show it's time for real men to man up”, in The Mirror, UK

(slang, Internet) An episode of frenzied and/or mass tweeting.


spin up

en-verb

spin up (third-person singular simple present spins up, present participle spinning up, simple past and past participle spun up)

spins up (present singular third-person)
spinning up (participle present)
spun up (participle past)
spun up (past)

Plated hard disk surfaces are actually harder and more scratch resistant than read-write heads are. The hard magnetic medium effectively protects itself from head crashes caused by contaminants and the drive's spinning up or down.

1987, PC: The Independent Guide to IBM Personal Computers, volume 6, page 222

The hard drive spun up. The gray screen flickered. The smiley Mac face appeared and soon I was ready to dazzle the world with The Journals Book II.

2005, R. T. Stone, The Journals Book II: Into the Gulf, page 28

(computing, intransitive, of a disk drive) To reach a sufficient spinning speed for reads and writes to take place.

Near-synonyms: spool up; gin up

We spun up a virtual server in the cloud to handle the additional load.

(computing, transitive) To power up, launch, or instantiate.


edgel

(computer graphics) A pixel in an image that is recognised as the edge of something.


Beowulf cluster

en-noun

Beowulf cluster (plural Beowulf clusters)

So called because Beowulf is described as having þrittiges / manna mægencræft on his mundgripe (“Thirty men’s strength in his hand-grip”), approximately reflecting the number of nodes in the cluster.

One day, all of your bank and credit card transactions may be processed by Beowulf clusters.

1999, Rajkumar Buyya, High Performance Cluster Computing: Architectures and systems, page 641

2001, A. Grado, et al., The BEOWFI Project: Reducing WFI Data with a Beowulf Cluster, IAU Commission 9 Working Group on Sky Surveys, The New Era of Wide Field Astronomy: Proceedings of a Conference, page 304,
With the use of a beowulf cluster the time to process the large amount of data available for the BEOWFI project will be reduced, and the project will also demonstrate the effectiveness of using beowulf clusters in wide field imaging astronomy.

To this end, a Beowulf cluster is constructed, configured, and tested using 15 similar computers and 1 newer, faster server using the MPI.

2009, Lawrence A. Tomei, Information Communication Technologies for Enhanced Education and Learning: Advanced Applications and Developments, page number not shown

(computing) A cluster of standard personal computers linked by a local area network, usually on the order of 10 nodes.


portmapper

(computing) A software service that maps programs to the ports they will use to communicate over a network.


digital watermark

digital watermark (plural digital watermarks)

(computing) Auxiliary data embedded in a datafile for subsequent identification and verification of the file.


incident ticket system

incident ticket system (plural incident ticket systems)

issue tracking system
issue tracking system#English

(computing) Synonym of issue tracking system


support ticket system

support ticket system (plural support ticket systems)


trouble ticket system

trouble ticket system (plural trouble ticket systems)


issue tracking system

issue tracking system (plural issue tracking systems)

(computing) A software program that manages and maintains a list of issues.


ITS

(computing) Initialism of issue tracking system.


ermahgerd

From a humorously altered pronunciation of oh my God. Popularized by an image macro meme in 2012, which features the text "ermahgerd, Gersberms" overlaid on a photo of a teenage girl making a silly face and holding several Goosebumps books. The girl in the photo has a visible orthodontic retainer. The pronunciation spelling is intended to mimic the speech of a wearer of this device.

PLUS (please brace yourselves, fangirls) he's coming to play at the Perth Arena in a few months – ermahgerd.

2012 October 24, “Livin' A Teenage Dream”, in X-Press Magazine, number 1341, page 11

Here's a scary thought: I'm a Canadian citizen over 18 years of age and I have lived in Saskatoon for more than three months and in Saskatchewan for more than six months. What does this mean? I can run for mayor. Ermahgerd!

2012 October 25, Travis Homenuk, “Let's all run for mayor”, in The Sheaf, volume 104, number 8, University of Saskatchewan, page 16

Is that an Alber Elbaz pink-bubblegum macaron you're eating? Ermahgerd! You are so last year.

2013 March 3, Robert Epstein, “Being Modern: Macarons”, in The Independent

(slang, humorous or sarcastic) Alternative form of oh my God.


case-based reasoning

(computing) The process of solving new problems based on the known solutions of similar problems encountered in the past.


data controller

data controller (plural data controllers)

(dated, computing) A clerk who scheduled batch jobs on a mainframe computer, and who distributed printed output


deobfuscator

(computing) A software program that attempts to undo the work of an obfuscator, restoring readable source code.


hidden Markov model

hidden Markov model (plural hidden Markov models)

A statistical Markov model in which the system being modelled is assumed to be a Markov process with unobserved (hidden) states.


FTBFS

(computing) Initialism of fails to build from source: said of a computer program that cannot be built from its source code due to errors.


resizeable

en-adj

resizeable (comparative more resizeable, superlative most resizeable)

more resizeable (comparative)
most resizeable (superlative)

(computing, UK) Alternative form of resizable


re-sizable

re-sizable (comparative more re-sizable, superlative most re-sizable)

more re-sizable (comparative)
most re-sizable (superlative)

(computing, formal) Alternative form of resizable


re-sizeable

re-sizeable (comparative more re-sizeable, superlative most re-sizeable)

more re-sizeable (comparative)
most re-sizeable (superlative)

(computing, formal, UK) Alternative form of resizable


laptop hobo

Real laptop hobos you'll find in the windows of coffee shops up the street that offer free WiFi and unprotected electrical outlets.

2011 September 30, Stephen Quinn, “Hobo with a laptop”, in Globe and Mail

Starbucks started the war on laptop hobos (you know who you are, essay/screenplay/blog writers) who camp for the free Wi-Fi, nurse a single coffee for hours and take up valuable real estate.

2012 January 8, Denise Ryan, “‘Laptop hobos’ face crackdown”, in Vancouver Sun

The "laptop hobo" phenomenon — patrons buying one coffee and spending ensuing hours browsing the Web — is a growing issue with food and beverage operations.

2013 July 5, Steve Raabe, “Colorado coffee shops putting limits on power, Wi-Fi use”, in Denver Post

(informal) A heavy user of freely available Wi-Fi and/or power outlets at coffee shops.


smurf attack

In reference to the Smurf cartoon characters, suggesting a large number of small attackers overwhelming a larger opponent.

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

(computer security) A largely obsolete form of denial-of-service attack, involving broadcasting ICMP packets with the intended victim's IP address to a large computer network, causing the victim's computer to be overwhelmed by the response packets from the network.


IAL

Between 1958 and 1960, a collaboration was initiated between the Association for Computing Machinery and the Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik for the definition of a universal algorithmic language, first denoted IAL, later ALGOL58, and finally ALGOL60.

2020, Giuseppe Primiero, On the Foundations of Computing, Oxford University Press, page 88

(computer languages, obsolete) Initialism of International Algebraic Language, later named ALGOL.


mixfix

(computing theory) Being or relating to a kind of operator that can combine any of the infix, prefix, postfix, and closed notations.


z-culling

(computer graphics) The elimination of certain objects from the display that should not be rendered because they are behind objects that are closer to the viewer.


z-buffer

(computer graphics) A buffer for the purpose of tracking the relative depths of different objects in a scene and determining which are closer to the observer than others.


autoprojection

(computing theory) self-applicable partial evaluation


autoprojector

(computing theory) A system that carries out autoprojection.


partial evaluation

(computing theory) A technique for program optimization by specialization, so as to produce new programs which run faster than the originals while guaranteed to behave in the same way.


*band

en-noun

*band (usually uncountable, plural *bands)

Angband
Angband (video game)
J. R. R. Tolkien
Silmarillion

From * (“wildcard”) + band, after the roguelike Angband, after the fictional fortress of Angband in J. R. R. Tolkien’s Silmarillion.


blogware

It also doesn't hurt that, with blogware such as Google's Blogger.com, everything is ready and set up for you to start without delay.

2009, Martin Harwood, Michael Harwood, Landing Page Optimization For Dummies

(Internet) software facilitating the creation of blogs


air-gapped

In addition to encrypting any sensitive e-mails, she began using different computers for editing film, for communicating and for reading sensitive documents (the one for sensitive documents is air-gapped, meaning it has never been connected to the Internet).

2013 August 13, Peter Maass, “How Laura Poitras Helped Snowden Spill His Secrets”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

In the past two years a group of researchers in Israel has become highly adept at stealing data from air-gapped computers—those machines prized by hackers that, for security reasons, are never connected to the internet or connected to other machines that are connected to the internet, making it difficult to extract data from them.

2016 June 28, Kim Zetter, “Clever Attack Uses the Sound of a Computer’s Fan to Steal Data”, in Wired, →ISSN

It also appears that the controllers running the centrifuges were air gapped and not directly connected to the Internet.

2016, William D. Bryant, International Conflict and Cyberspace Superiority: Theory and Practice, Routledge, page 153

(computer security, of a system) Physically isolated from the Internet or some other unsecured network.


subdocument

(computing, wordprocessing) A document making up part of a larger document.


heredoc

Interpolating with string concatenation in heredocs can look a little strange because the closing heredoc delimiter and the string concatenation operator have to be on separate lines […]

2009, Adam Trachtenberg, David Sklar, PHP Cookbook, page 16


here document

(computing) A block of text included in the source code of a computer program in such a way that it is treated as a single string literal with line breaks etc. as written.


LaTeX

From TeX. La is usually thought to be from Lamport, the surname of its creator, Leslie Lamport.

(computer languages) A digital typesetting system for mathematical and scientific formulae layout, based on TeX; often stylized as LaTeX.


polyhierarchy

(computing) A hierarchical relationship (tree) in which at least one child has more than one parent

poligerarchia

computing: relationship in which at least one child has more than one parent


filespace

Thus although people routinely email other people worldwide, they are more cautious about sending queries to remote databases. Instead they prefer to browse around directories on remote sites and then transfer whole files to their own filespace for deeper investigation.

1996, Ian Wand, Robin Milner, Computing Tomorrow: Future Research Directions in Computer Science, page 121

That password allows anyone who knows it to get into the complete system. I could now delete all the hospital files if I wanted. Or I could go poking around in other people's filespace to see what is of interest.

2001, Cynthia Lucy Dale, The Devil's DNA, page 55

(computing) The space where files are stored.


metasearch engine

metasearch engine (plural metasearch engines)

(Internet) A system that displays aggregated results from several search engines, invoked simultaneously


pseudolanguage

State what will be printed by the following code fragment written in a pseudolanguage permitting reference parameters (assume Y and J are passed by reference).

2010, Maurizio Gabbrielli, Simone Martini, Programming Languages: Principles and Paradigms, page 194

programming language
programming language

(computing) A means of describing an algorithm in human terms, without the use of a true programming language.


Doctor Google

Alluding to the Google search engine being the surname of a medical professional.

Using “Dr Google” for health purposes is controversial. Some have expressed concerns that it can lead to inaccurate diagnoses, bad advice on where to seek treatment (triage), and increased anxiety (cyberchondria).

2021 March 29, Natalie Grover, “Looking up health symptoms online less harmful than thought, study says”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

(Internet, informal) The Internet when used to seek out medical advice.


virtual desktop

virtual desktop (plural virtual desktops)

(computing, graphical user interface) A desktop (visual workspace) offering more space than the physical screen would usually allow, controlled either by scrolling or by switching between screenfuls.


consolitis

(slang, humorous, video games) A notional condition affecting video games released for game consoles, making them inferior to computer versions.


subpackage

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

(object-oriented programming) A package situated hierarchically below another package.


Twitter

From twitter (“to utter a succession of chirps”).

(trademark) An online social networking service that enables users to send and read short messages (280 characters; originally 140); officially known as X since 2023.


Twitter

I've lost the password to my Twitter.

(Internet, informal) A user account belonging to the above service.

There were, of course, many Twitters existing in parallel: Politics Twitter, Sports Twitter, Black Twitter, Weird Twitter. But Twitter and TV went together like extreme weather and marine predators.

2023 July 10, James Poniewozik, “The Twitter Watch Party Is Over”, in The New York Times

(Internet, informal, usually in combination) A community on Twitter.


Twitter

en-verb

Twitter (third-person singular simple present Twitters, present participle Twittering, simple past and past participle Twittered)

Twitters (present singular third-person)
Twittering (participle present)
Twittered (participle past)
Twittered (past)

2009 March 2, Justin Rebello, “Eight top-notch tips for the Twittering attorney"”, in Wisconsin Law Journal, retrieved 2009-03-02

2009 February 23, MSNBC, “Stars can’t stop Twittering at Oscars, parties”, in Access Hollywood, retrieved 2009-03-02

(transitive, intransitive, Internet, sometimes proscribed) To tweet; to post an update to Twitter.


semigraphical

(computing) Of or relating to semigraphics.


security system

en-noun

security system (plural security systems)

(computing) A similar software system that prevents unauthorised access.


guildie

2010, Mike Langlois, Reset: Video Games & Psychotherapy or "The Face Behind the Screen"
Throughout all of this Luke was able to stay connected and supported by his friends and other members of his guild. He attributes his ability to move on and be ready for the next phase of his life through the enjoyment of WoW and his guildies.


georedundant

(computing) Operating at more than one geographical location, as a form of redundancy in case one site fails.


softload

en-verb

softload (third-person singular simple present softloads, present participle softloading, simple past and past participle softloaded)

softloads (present singular third-person)
softloading (participle present)
softloaded (participle past)
softloaded (past)

(computing, transitive) To load from a software source rather than from ROM.


downcall

(computing, programming) A call from a higher-level subsystem, such as user code, to a lower-level subsystem, such as a kernel or framework.


suberror

(computing) A specific error belonging to a general class of errors.


MIDlet

From MID + -let; compare applet, servlet.

(computing, Java programming language) An application that uses the Mobile Information Device Profile of the Connected Limited Device Configuration for the embedded Java environment.


crapplication

By contrast, I've never seen a Windows machine perform well after being on for more than about 5 or 6 days straight; if it doesn't outright crash, it loses all of its memory and has to be restarted, PLUS it is susceptible to the same hardware lockups, power failures and crapplications as Linux is.

1999, William Wueppelmann, “How to downgrade to Windows 95?? Win 98 HATES my guts.”, in rec.games.computer.ultima.dragons (Usenet)

Most people don't realize how many background crapplications they have running thanks to the different stuff that they have installed.

2002, n3kkb0, “Rocksim and WindowsXP”, in rec.models.rockets (Usenet)

(computing, Internet, slang, derogatory) An unwanted or poor-quality application.


scorefile

(computing, Internet) A file containing criteria for assigning a score to each email message received, for purposes of filtering out spam, etc.


Cat 5

Cat-5 UTP cable – level 5 cables have twisted-pair cores with a characteristic impedance of 100Ω (±15Ω) and a capacitance of 45.9 pF/m. Conductor resistance is around 9Ω/100 m.

2000, Bill Buchanan, Computer Busses: Design and Application, Arnold, London, page 60

When first connecting the service, it may be necessary to connect the Cat 5 or Cat 6 Ethernet cable directly to the computer to sign up with the ISP before inserting the router/firewall and switch between the modem and the computer(s).

2006, Dennis C. Brewer, Paul A. Brewer, Wiring Your Digital Home For Dummies, Wiley Publishing, Inc., page 200

On Cat 5 cable, the jacket is usually stamped with the manufacturer’s name and cable type, including the Cat 5 specification.

2010, Tamara Dean, Network+ Guide to Networks, fifth edition, Course Technology, Cengage Learning, chapter 3 “Transmission Basics and Networking Media”

(computer hardware) A twisted pair cable for carrying signals, particularly for Ethernet-based computer networks.


miniblog

Some of the social media such as Twitter can be exploited to get out the miniblogs that generate a constant stream of news about schools and districts.

2011, David Carroll, Susan Rovezzi Carroll, Marketing 101: How Smart Schools Get and Keep Community Support

To offer another example, Amazon.com uses interactive tools to create communities of users that connect similar individual interests with related products using miniblogs, videos, and user chats.

2011, William Aspray, Barbara M. Hayes, Everyday Information


RCW

Runtime Callable Wrapper
w:Runtime Callable Wrapper

(computing) Initialism of Runtime Callable Wrapper.


triple fault

(computing) An exception thrown by the CPU while trying to handle a double fault, typically resulting in immediate rebooting.


triple fault

triple fault (third-person singular simple present triple faults, present participle triple faulting, simple past and past participle triple faulted)

triple faults (present singular third-person)
triple faulting (participle present)
triple faulted (participle past)
triple faulted (past)

(computing) To cause a triple fault to happen.


Verlet list

(computing) A data structure in molecular dynamics simulations that can efficiently maintain a list of all particles within a given cut-off distance of each other.


pseudodomain

The anonymity network Tor has a top-level pseudodomain .onion for hidden services, which can only be reached with a Tor client.

(Internet) A nonexistent top-level domain that is assigned a meaning in certain specialized contexts.


hand-code

hand-code (third-person singular simple present hand-codes, present participle hand-coding, simple past and past participle hand-coded)

hand-codes (present singular third-person)
hand-coding (participle present)
hand-coded (participle past)
hand-coded (past)

(computing) To develop (software, web pages, etc.) by writing source code or markup directly, without the use of tools allowing higher-level representations.


blogring

(Internet) A kind of webring connecting blogs.


print server

(computing) A server that processes print jobs and sends them to one or more printers.


network printer

en-noun

network printer (plural network printers)

(computing) A printer that receives its print jobs through a print server, as opposed to processing print jobs directly.


ODD

ODD (countable and uncountable, plural ODDs)

optical disc drive
optical disc drive#English

(computing) Initialism of optical disc drive.


Internet of Things

The Internet of Things as an emerging global Internet-based information architecture facilitating the exchange of goods and services is gradually developing. While the technology of the Internet of Things is still being discussed […]

2010, Rolf H. Weber, Romana Weber, Internet of Things: Legal Perspectives, Springer

Finally, I want to underscore that although it may be possible to image something like the “internet of things” without surveillance capitalism, it is impossible to image surveillance capitalism without something like the “internet of things.”

2018, Shoshana Zuboff, chapter 7, in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

An Internet-like structure connecting everyday physical objects equipped with RFID or similar tags.


signedness

(computing) The state or condition of being signed.


iDevice

If you find one that you like, you can have others in the series download to your iDevice automatically as they appear by clicking the Subscribe button.

2011, Arnold Reinhold, Switching to a Mac For Dummies

(informal) Any of a range of mobile electronic devices marketed by Apple Inc., such as the iPod, iPhone, and iPad.


YouTubular

en-adj

YouTubular (comparative more YouTubular, superlative most YouTubular)

more YouTubular (comparative)
most YouTubular (superlative)

I'm shooting my next film in my living room as I type, and I'll see everyone next week, right here, with another crazy tale of YouTubular adventure.

2008 January, Andrew Struthers, “A Feisty One Online”, in Tofino Time, page 21

More recently, Spectres of the Spectrum presented another YouTubular conspiracy rant — about fair use and corporate control of media technology and copyright law, also dealt with in his early internet-age Ecstasy of Influence-predicting docu-essay Sonic Outlaws — within the framework of a far-out D.I.Y. sci-fi movie.

2009, Mark, "Mock Up on Mu", L Magazine, 14 January 2009

Hello everyone, and welcome back to the blog where we will find out which YouTubular acts will be moving on into the semi-finals.

2010 August 11, Sarah Kickler Kelber, “'America's Got Talent': YouTube semifinalists revealed”, in Baltimore Sun

(informal) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of YouTube.

youtubowy

of, pertaining to, or characteristic of YouTube


helldesk

(computing, slang, derogatory) help desk


metacircularity

(computing theory) The property of an interpreter that is written in the same programming language that it interprets, and that exploits homoiconicity to reuse the existing facilities of the parent interpreter rather than reimplementing them.


antishadow

Correct shadows and antishadows are shown in Figure 9.6.

2011, Tomas Akenine-Möller, Eric Haines, Naty Hoffman, Real-Time Rendering, Third Edition, page 336

(computer graphics) An inaccurate shadow in a three-dimensional rendering, caused by a vertex of an object being projected through the point of a light source.


metaoperator

(programming) In the Perl and Raku programming languages, an operator that can combine with other operators.


NAID

(computing) network array of inexpensive disks


untweetable

untweetable (comparative more untweetable, superlative most untweetable)

more untweetable (comparative)
most untweetable (superlative)

And some recipes are just untweetable, like lobster Thermidor, which calls for 26 ingredients and 32 steps. Twitter can’t handle too many instructions like “pour the cognac in and boil for a minute or two, shaking the skillet.”

2009 August 5, Michael Hill, “Tweet and potatoes: Recipes get scrunched”, in The State Journal-Register

The opener, Cardona's Light Conversation, was anything but -- Cardona and Rahel Vonmoos dancing mostly to a recording of a dense conversation about Kierkegaard's philosophy and other untweetable subjects.

2010 January 6, Jordan Levin, “Disabled dancers heat up Winterfest”, in Miami Herald

For an Amy or a Gaga that’s all fine – there’s a whiff of cordite there – but for someone who makes The Jonas Brothers look like Megadeth, it’s just dreadfully untweetable.

2010 November 12, Brian Boyd, “Revolver”, in Irish Times

(Internet) Not capable or worthy of being communicated via the Twitter microblogging service.


memedom

In celebration of all the treasured gems that are internet memedom, a group of Harvard folks are throwing what’s bound to blow up into the the biggest nerdfest outside of a Star Trek Convention.

2007 December 7, Jenna Wortham, “Famous Internet Memes to Gather at ROFLCon 2008”, in Wired

An inventive joke born of Internet memedom.

2012 March 28, Katherine Boyle, “Peeps Show VI: Power to the Peeps”, in The Washington Post

GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney has one of his top aides to thank for uttering the words that would secure his place in memedom.

2012 December 29, Samantha Rollins, “The 11 best memes of 2012”, in The Week


cross assembler

en-noun

cross assembler (plural cross assemblers)

(computing) An assembler that generates code for a platform other than the one it runs on.


quickselect

(computing) A sorting algorithm related to quicksort, but with limited recursion.


kink meme

Kink memes are generally hosted on the blogging platforms Dreamwidth or LiveJournal, which have comment structures that allow for specific requests to be put up and responded to in a linked manner.

2018, Rukmini Pande, Squee from the Margins: Fandom and Race, page 166

Noticeably, most of these kinkmeme prompts revolve around Sherlock and John's sexual/romantic relationship in one form or another.

2019, Christiana Gregoriou, "The Fandom Is Afoot: BBC Sherlock and Its Fanfiction at Play", in Retold Resold Transformed: Crime Fiction in the Global Era (Christiana Gregoriou, David Platten, & Gigliola Sulis), unnumbered page

It was originally published in late 2010 in response to a request on the Supernatural kinkmeme.

2021, Milena Popova, Dubcon: Fanfiction, Power, and Sexual Consent, page 45

(fandom slang) An online space in which requests for fan fiction (generally involving a specific kink) are posted and fulfilled anonymously.


ENOTUITS

Mimics the form of C error codes: for example, on Linux, a library call may return the error code ENOMEM to indicate that it has run out of memory. TUITS comes from round tuit.

ENOTUITS! /me is already sorely over-committed

2010 January 29, "David E. Wheeler" (username), "[HACKERS] Review: listagg aggregate", in pgsql.hackers, Mailing list

(computing, humorous) A fictitious error code indicating that a person has run out of round tuits (i.e. they don't have any time to spare on the task being discussed).


shellbag

(computing, Microsoft Windows) A set of registry keys that store details about a viewed folder, such as its size, position, and icon.


cloudification

(computing) The conversion and/or migration of data and application programs in order to make use of cloud computing


demake

(video games) A remake of a modern game for an older platform.


demake

en-verb

demake (third-person singular simple present demakes, present participle demaking, simple past and past participle demade)

demakes (present singular third-person)
demaking (participle present)
demade (participle past)
demade (past)

(transitive, video games) To remake (a modern game) for an older platform.


upcasing

"The upcasing of the string 'foo' to be all upper case letters resulted in 'FOO'."

(computing) The act of converting all letters to be uppercase.


midriser

(computing theory, data compression) Alternative form of midrise


midtread

midtread quantization

(computing theory, data compression) Having a zero-valued reconstruction level (analogous to a tread of a stairway).


Doomer

Alternative form: DOOMer

Doomers, ranging from children to senior citizens, are up all night hunting specters, imps, and other hellspawn, battling each other in so-called Deathmatch tournaments, and checking out the latest Doom lore by conversing with the game’s developers over computer chat lines. […] What’s ahead for Doomers? Id has authorized a company called Austin Virtual Gaming to license an eight-screen Doom arcade setup around the country.

I am not a female Doomer, but I did "catch" my fiance playing Doom the other day. It led us to a discussion of why ID didn't put the option in to choose a female character.

1994 April 30, Ricardo Lopez, “Are there any *female* doomers out there?”, in alt.games.doom (Usenet)

The sense of reality is so seamless that on the Internet, where many Doomers gather, there is a FAQ (frequently asked questions) document that talks about Doom-induced motion sickness. […] At one point, Carnegie Mellon University’s 25,000-user network had so many student Doomers playing that the system nearly ground to a halt.

1994 September 23, Robert S. Cauthorn, “‘Doom’s Day’: Oct. 10 is release date for sequel to wildly popular game”, in The Arizona Daily Star, volume 153, number 264, Tucson, Ariz., section E, page twelve

doom This channel is a cousin of #vidgames […] And some players use it to find others who have the Internet Head-to-Head Daemon (IHHD) software, which lets folks play Doom over the Net. (Note: Some “Doomers” may want to try finding the #modemdoom channel if #doom is not active for some reason.)

1995, Donald Rose, Internet Chat Quick Tour: Real-time Conversations & Communications Online, Ventana Press, page 119

On the downside, they’ve created such indelible demons and Death match tournaments that Doomers of all ages have reported actual perception changes.

1996, Faith Popcorn, Lys Marigold, Clicking: 16 Trends to Future Fit Your Life, Your Work, and Your Business, HarperCollins, page 86

By intentionally leaving cracks in his source code, [John] Carmack encouraged Doomers to hack the game and create their own elaborate levels — new battlegrounds upon which the carnage took place.

1999, The New York Times Biographical Service, page 786

“Doom is a great stress-reliever,” said Lewis. “Its a great way to blow off stress after a bad day.” This defense is rather common among “Doomers,” as Doom enthusiasts have come to call themselves.

a. 2003, Mathew Webb, “Is it doom for Doom?”, in Cougar Chronicle, Austin, Tex.: Hill Country Middle School; quoted in Homer L. Hall, “Those Opinionated Columns”, in Junior High Journalism, New York, N.Y.: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc., 2003, page 189

(video games, informal) A player of the video game DOOM.


delurk

delurk (third-person singular simple present delurks, present participle delurking, simple past and past participle delurked)

delurks (present singular third-person)
delurking (participle present)
delurked (participle past)
delurked (past)

(intransitive, Internet) To reveal oneself, after lurking; to establish a presence on an online newsgroup, forum, etc.


DSVPS

(computing) Abbreviation of direct server VPS.


VWP

(computing, NetBeans) Initialism of Visual Web Pack.


an hero

Originated as a meme on the /b/ board of the 4chan community. Inspired by a grammatical error in a poem written and posted by a classmate to the MySpace memorial page of a teenager who committed suicide in 2006.

In the clip, Dave Mustaine (our hero of the story, yet not yet "an hero") is shown recording "Through the Darkest Hour" a song about wanting to kill yourself because your bird left you.

2007 August 10, the_boy_blunder [username], “Fiddildy Fucking Dee, it's enough to make you not want to kill yourself”, in alt.suicide.holiday (Usenet)

Some of us were beginning to think you'd made yourself into "an hero" for Christmas, but I always knew you'd be back.

2008 December 24, Alex Clark, “Re: Tom Cruise on Kimmel last night”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet)

I like how I can tell someone that I want to become an hero and they have no idea that I'm talking about suicide.

2009 August 22, ., “BECOMING AN HERO”, in alt.suicide.holiday (Usenet)

(Internet slang) A suicidee; one who commits suicide.


scambaiting

(Internet) The practice of posing as a potential victim of a scam, usually the Nigerian scam, in order to waste the scammer’s time and resources.

scambaiting

posing as a scam victim to waste the time of the scammer


SLI

service level indicator
w:service level indicator

(computing) Initialism of service level indicator.


SLI

Scalable Link Interface
w:Scalable Link Interface

(computer graphics) Initialism of Scalable Link Interface.


dogpiler

(Internet) One who dogpiles; one of a group of posters who pile on another in criticism.


WASAPI

(computing, Microsoft Windows) Initialism of Windows Audio Session API.


keylock

We complained in our review of the PC AT that the problem with the keylock is that when you power up with the keylock on, you cannot continue until you unlock the system.

1986, InfoWorld, volume 8, number 10, page 49

The keylock on the front of some more advanced PCs may be locked in the off position, grounding out the keyboard-to-motherboard circuit. Turn the key to the on position.

2007, Corey Sandler, Fix Your Own PC, page 6

(computing, historical) A physical lock on the case of a computer, preventing use of the keyboard until unlocked.


unsubclass

unsubclass (third-person singular simple present unsubclasses, present participle unsubclassing, simple past and past participle unsubclassed)

unsubclasses (present singular third-person)
unsubclassing (participle present)
unsubclassed (participle past)
unsubclassed (past)

A good convention for working with multiple subclasses is to only subclass the window procedure that is the first in the call chain and only unsubclass the one that is first.

1990, Paul W. Cheatham, David E. Reich, Robert F. G. Robinson, OS/2 presentation manager programming, page 339

Unsubclassing the plug-in window ensures that Navigator can continue to function normally once the plug-in module is unloaded.

1996, Ted Coombs, Jason Coombs, Don Brewer, The Netscape LiveWire Sourcebook

It is very important to remember to unsubclass the plug-in window when the plug-in is destroyed.

1997, Douglas A. Young, Netscape developer's guide to plug-ins, page 177

(object-oriented programming, transitive) To cause (a previously subclassed window or object) no longer to act like a member of a subclass.


DR

information technology
information technology

(information technology) Initialism of disaster recovery.


legacy-free

(computer hardware, of a personal computer) Lacking certain older components such as a floppy disk drive, legacy ports, and ISA or other expansion bus.


geo-blocking

From geo- + blocking or geo-block + -ing.

(computing, Internet) The use of geolocation software to deny access to content to users from certain regions or countries.


subregister

(computing) A secondary or subsidiary register (area for number storage).


Winkey

(computing) Abbreviation of Windows key.


cronjob

From cron + job. From cron, name of the system program that handles these tasks; from Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos, “time”).

(computing) An automated task that runs at specific intervals.


hoverable

(graphical user interface) Capable of interaction by hovering.


backpatch

backpatch (third-person singular simple present backpatches, present participle backpatching, simple past and past participle backpatched)

backpatches (present singular third-person)
backpatching (participle present)
backpatched (participle past)
backpatched (past)

(computing theory) To update (partially compiled code) with jump addresses that were previously left as placeholders because they had not yet been encountered in the source code.


HKLM

(computing, Microsoft Windows) Abbreviation of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE: part of the registry containing settings specific to the local computer.


subview

(computing, graphical user interface) A secondary or subsidiary view.


propositionalization

(computing) The transformation of a relational dataset into a propositional one.


metasurface

(computer graphics) A generalization of the metaball, not necessarily spherical.


inventory Tetris

In reference to the shape-fitting puzzle game Tetris.

(video games) A system of inventory management where acquired items must be arranged according to the space that they consume.


backoff

en-noun

backoff (countable and uncountable, plural backoffs)

a backoff strategy to avoid collisions

(computing) The situation where an algorithm or process refrains from taking an action it would otherwise have taken.


webtoon

From Web + toon, dating from at least 2001 (see citations). For Korean comics, likely a re-borrowing of Korean 웹툰 (weptun), itself from the original sense.

Have a webtoon! Elf Life: http://www.elflife.com

2001, 11 September, "Rob Cruickshank, part-time human being", Re: Strange ad copy of the day (on newsgroup alt.slack)

As Flash Webtoons and animated shorts have become more and more popular, a spate of tools have cropped up to facilitate their creation.

2006, Ethan Watrall, Norbert Herber, Flash MX 2004 Savvy, page 12

Ren & Stimpy creator John Kricfalusi used Flash animation to bring cartoons (sometimes called online cartoons or webtoons) to the Internet.

2008, Don Rauf, Monique Vescia, Virtual Apprentice: Cartoon Animator, page 29

More and more cartoons are made using special techniques with a lot of help from computers. Some people are making cartoons for the internet. These are called webtoons. You could make a webtoon, too.

2009, Caroline Nixon, Michael Tomlinson, Kid's Box 5 Pupil's Book: Book 5

When it comes to Flash animated cartoons, also called webtoons, the first noted use was in 1999 when Ren & Stimpy creator John Kricfalusi set out to bring cartoons to the Web. Soon after, webtoons began popping up everywhere.

2010, Michael Duggan, PSP Game Creation for Teens, page 13

(Internet) An animated cartoon published on the World Wide Web.


wikilawyering

[…] comments like these about "Jew-baiting" are very rare on even the most contentious of "discussion" and "mediation" pages. What one finds there instead is wikilawyering — cryptic, acronym-laden debate invoking protocol and precedent.

2007, Bidoun: A Quarterly Forum for Middle Eastern Talent

2008, Big Bad Bob, “Re: alt-hacker.org member busted for wikilawyering!”, in alt.hacker (Usenet):

What, and be buried in wikilawyering designed to keep actual subject matter experts out and leave wp safely in the hands of the wikieditor cliques?

2012, Graham Nye, “Four killed in US when train hits float carrying veterans”, in uk.railway (Usenet)

(Wikimedia jargon) Engaging in legalistic arguments on a wiki.


batchable

(computing) Capable of being run as a batch (a set of data processed at one time).


Mumsnetter

(Internet) A member of the Mumsnet parenting web site.


insertion sort

insertion sort (countable and uncountable, plural insertion sorts)

(computer science) A sorting algorithm that performs its task by inserting new items into a pre-existing sorted data structure.


defunctionalization

defunctionalization (countable and uncountable, plural defunctionalizations)

higher-order function
higher-order function

(computing, programming) A compile-time transformation which eliminates higher-order functions, replacing them by a single first-order apply function.


defunctionalize

en-verb

defunctionalize (third-person singular simple present defunctionalizes, present participle defunctionalizing, simple past and past participle defunctionalized)

defunctionalizes (present singular third-person)
defunctionalizing (participle present)
defunctionalized (participle past)
defunctionalized (past)

(computing, programming) To subject to defunctionalization.


ISCII

(computing) Indian Script Code for Information Interchange


altcoin

Sure, like all the other altcoins, Dogecoin offers some variability, like a theoretical max of 100 billion versus 21 million, and a different proof-of-work algorithm, but we’re reaching Furby levels of ridiculousness here.

2013, sdjf, “Dogecoin ~ internet meme dog coin.”, in uk.politics.misc (Usenet)

Altcoins use either Scrypt or SHA256 encryption algorithm, because the 'project forks' are from either Litecoin or Bitcoin. […] A few crypto economists believed that Altcoins is contributed to a diverse crypto commodities marketplace, which is good.

2013, John Davidson, The Digital Coin Revolution - Crypto Currency - How to Make Money Online, JD-Biz Corp Publishing

Indeed, after a week of existence, Dogecoin is already the 24th most valuable altcoin, with a total market value of $1,621,559 based on the exchange CoinedUp, though it might be worth even more elsewhere.

2013, John Stevenson, Dogecoin - Bitcoin's poor cousin?, page 18

MASTERCOIN […] An altcoin invented by J. R. Willett. According to the Website, “The Master Protocol facilitates the creation and trading of smart properties and user currencies as well as other types of smart contracts. […]”

2014, Deborah Gonzalez, Managing Online Risk: Apps, Mobile, and Social Media Security, Butterworth-Heinemann, page 199

(cryptocurrencies) A cryptocurrency other than bitcoin.


encloser

(programming) An object, procedure, or other portion of code that defines the scope of a variable.


blockchain

From block + chain, from earlier “block chain”. In the 2008 Bitcoin paper block and chain are used separately; the concept is referred to as “chain of hash-based proof-of-work” or “chain of digital signatures”.

By the way, mobile wallets differ from most software wallets in that they don't download the entire Bitcoin blockchain with every transaction. (Many software wallets do, interestingly.) Because the blockchain is a file several gigabytes in size, this would eat up a ton of mobile bandwidth and probably cause your mobile provider to either enact overage charges or just plain cancel your account. In addition, your mobile phone probably doesn't have enough onboard storage to host the entire […]

2014, Michael R. Miller, The Ultimate Guide to Bitcoin, Que Publishing, page 93

[…] blockchain is arguably the most important innovation introduced by Bitcoin. It is the missing link that makes distributed peer-to-peer digital currencies possible. The blockchain is in essence a distributed database holding all the Bitcoin transactions since the beginning (January 3, 2009) and a method to secure this database. The blockchain keeps a secure list of all the transactions. However, there are relevant questions, such as whether a particular transaction output is spendable, that […]

2014, Pedro Franco, Understanding Bitcoin: Cryptography, Engineering and Economics, John Wiley & Sons, page 95

A shared record of past transactions in a distributed network, typically used for cryptocurrency.


satoshi

Named after Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous designer of Bitcoin, from Japanese さとし (Satoshi), nominalization of the classical adjective 聡し (satoshi), modern 聡い (satoi, “clever, smart, sharp”).

A hundred-millionth (10⁻⁸) of a bitcoin; the same as 10 nanocoins (nBTC) or 10⁻⁸ BTC.


cryptocurrency

en-noun

cryptocurrency (countable and uncountable, plural cryptocurrencies)

Bitcoin was the first decentralized cryptocurrency.

As secure Internet payment systems develop, of course, betting will become easier. And if some form of digital cash—crypto-currency that can be exchanged like cash via the Internet—really does take hold, betting will be even easier still.

1995 July 26, Daniel Akst, “Info Highway May Convert Your PC Into a Gambling Mecca”, in Los Angeles Times

Then there is bitcoin, the cryptocurrency that has been skyrocketing in value lately. Bitcoin is basically virtual cash — anonymous, untraceable currency stuffed into a mobile wallet.

2013 November 17, Nick Bilton, “Disruptions: A Digital Underworld Cloaked in Anonymity”, in New York Times

The US chip-maker Nvidia has said cryptocurrencies do not “bring anything useful for society” despite the company’s powerful processors selling in huge quantities to the sector.

2023 March 26, Alex Hern, quoting Michael Kagan, “Cryptocurrencies add nothing useful to society, says chip-maker Nvidia”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

As alleged in the Indictment filed on January 9, 2023, EISENBERG engaged in a scheme to fraudulently obtain approximately $110 million worth of cryptocurrency from the cryptocurrency exchange Mango Markets and its customers and achieved this objective by artificially manipulating the price of certain perpetual futures contracts.

2023 February 2, U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York, “Alleged Perpetrator Of $100 Million Crypto Market Manipulation Scheme To Make Initial Appearance In The Southern District Of New York”, in justice.gov, sourced from justice.gov

According to Recorded Future’s research, the regime considers cryptocurrency theft a significant revenue source, primarily funding military and weapons programs.

2023 November 30, Alessandro Mascellino, “North Korean Hackers Amass $3bn in Cryptocurrency Heists”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)

A digital currency based on a cryptographic system, usually having no central issuing or regulating authority.


naming collision

naming collision (plural naming collisions)

(software compilation) An error caused by two source code elements (such as variables or functions) having the same name as each other.


const

Abbreviation of constant, used as a keyword in certain programming languages.

(programming) A variable whose value cannot be changed directly.


const

(programming, of a variable) Whose value cannot be changed directly.

(programming, of a function) Which cannot change the value of its class’s attributes.


autokey

(cryptography) Being a cipher that incorporates the plaintext into the key.


YouTube poop

YouTube poop (countable and uncountable, plural YouTube poops)

/ˈjʉːt͡ʃʉːb pʉːp/

YouTube + poop, with the word "poop" chosen to refer to the perceived low quality of the videos.

(Internet slang) On the video sharing site YouTube, a humorous or surreal video mashup made of clips from a television show, movie, other video, etc. with visual and auditory effects.


nettop

Blend of net + desktop; compare netbook.

(computing) A small, inexpensive, low-power desktop computer.


autofit

en-verb

autofit (third-person singular simple present autofits, present participle autofitting, simple past and past participle autofitted)

autofits (present singular third-person)
autofitting (participle present)
autofitted (participle past)
autofitted (past)

Another option is to autofit the row's height (or the column's width) to match its content. Autofitting eliminates empty space by matching the row height or column width to its tallest or longest cell entry.

2010, Ann Shaffer, Patrick Carey, Kathleen T. Finnegan, New Perspectives on Microsoft Office 2010, First Course, page 17

In the following example, when you right-click a cell in column E, the current date and time are entered into that cell, and column E's width is autofitted[…]

2013, Tom Urtis, Excel VBA 24-Hour Trainer, page 117

(transitive, computing) To fit automatically by resizing.


raytraced

(computer graphics) Produced by ray tracing.


J. Random

J. Random User

J. Random Hacker

(computing, slang) An unspecified person; any old person (followed by a generic role).


NP-equivalent

(computing theory) Both NP-easy and NP-hard.


pentop

From pen + top; compare desktop, laptop.

(computing) An electronic pen-like device intended as an educational computer for use with attachable cartridges and special digital paper.


NP-easy

(computing theory) Solvable in polynomial time by a deterministic Turing machine with an oracle for some decision problem in NP.


read-write

a read-write head in a disk drive

a read-write lock, request, or variable

(computing) Supporting both read and write operations.

讀寫

supporting both read and write operations


BDD

en-noun

BDD (countable and uncountable, plural BDDs)

(computing theory) Initialism of binary decision diagram.

Coordinate term: TDD

You've now seen what a typical BDD/TDD development process looks like. BDD unit testing is more an approach than a particular toolset, but there are tools and techniques that can make practicing BDD unit testing easier.

2014, John Smart, BDD in Action: Behavior-Driven Development for the whole software lifecycle, Simon and Schuster

software engineering
software engineering

(software engineering) Initialism of behavior-driven development.

(software engineering) Initialism of business-driven development.


photostream

(computing) A gallery or slideshow displaying a series of images from the Internet.


green thread

(computing) A thread of execution that is scheduled by a virtual machine, not natively by the underlying operating system.


Canadian traveller problem

Introduced by Christos Papadimitriou and Mihalis Yannakakis in 1989. Supposed to allude to the difficulties experienced by Canadian drivers with snowfall randomly blocking roads.

(computing theory) A generalization of the shortest path problem to graphs that are only partially observable (i.e. the graph is revealed while it is being explored).


banner exchange

banner exchange (plural banner exchanges)

(Internet) A link exchange scheme where web sites display each other's banners.


clickbait

clickbait (countable and uncountable, plural clickbaits)

From click + -bait (manipulation to elicit a particular response).

af

Fairfax's sites are renowned for what is sometimes called ‘clickbait’: headlines written to beguile passing eyeballs but which obscure nondescript or irrelevant stories.

2012, Gideon Haigh, The Deserted Newsroom, Penguin

"His careful lawyerly writing would be out of fashion now", wrote one commenter after Kettle's piece. "It wasn't clickbait".

2013 September 29, Peter Preston, The Observer

In August 2016, leaders at Facebook announced a plan to identify and limit clickbait, because the Facebook newsfeed goal is to “show people the stories most relevant to them.”

2017, Ted Kwartler, Text Mining in Practice with R, John Wiley & Sons

In comparison with algorithms used in the past, this SI based technique provided a better accuracy and a human interpretable set of rules to classify clickbaits

2019, Deepanshu Pandey, Garimendra Verma, Sushama Nagpal, “Clickbait Detection Using Swarm Intelligence”, in Advances in Signal Processing and Intelligent Recognition Systems

(Internet marketing, derogatory) Website content that is aimed at generating advertising revenue, especially at the expense of quality or accuracy, relying on sensationalist headlines to attract click-throughs; such headlines.

klikaas

content aimed at generating advertising revenue


TYT

(Internet) Initialism of The Young Turks.


PPC

en-noun

PPC (countable and uncountable, plural PPCs)


Sylfaen

From Welsh sylfaen (“foundation”). A trademark of Microsoft Corporation.

A certain serif typeface that supports Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Armenian and Georgian.


manosphere

man + -o- + -sphere, after the pattern of blogosphere.

The Manosphere essentially is the counterpoint to the feminist doctrine (that empowers women at the expense of men). It is a free form community consisting primarily of men on the internet sharing experiences and thoughts with the intention of educating, empowering and improving the state of men and boys.

2014, Alex Peck, Average Married Dad's Guide to Health, Wealth, and a Sexy Marriage, page 84

Incel is short for “involuntarily celibate”. The term rose to prominence because of its adoption by a subsection of the “manosphere”, a loose collection of movements united by misogyny that also includes some men’s rights activists, pick-up artists, and Mgtow/volcel – heterosexual men who refuse to have sex with women for political reasons.

2018, Alex Hern, Who are the 'incels' and how do they relate to Toronto van attack?, The Guardian

The foundational tenet of taking the red pill is at the root of almost all the major manosphere groups we will look at in this book, including pickup artists, so-called Men's Rights Activists, and Men Going Their Own Way.

2020, Laura Bates, Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists, the Truth about Extreme Misogyny and how it Affects Us All

(Internet, neologism) The domain or totality of men's-rights-oriented blogs and websites.


rothe

Unfortunately, he turned the corner in a rather inefficient manner, cutting off his retreat and bumped into a rothe. Gadzooks, he thought, one hit from this boy and I'll likely go to my ill named great reward. The only recourse was to quaff his one as of yet unidentified potion and hope it was extra healing.

1993, Robert Leduc, “Nethack Imitates Life”, in rec.games.hack (Usenet)

(fantasy) A kind of fictional cattle in various role-playing games and roguelike video games.


unarc

en-verb

unarc (third-person singular simple present unarcs, present participle unarcing, simple past and past participle unarced)

unarcs (present singular third-person)
unarcing (participle present)
unarced (participle past)
unarced (past)

I unarced it with UNARC.F83, a good example of a useful application that runs using only standard words (and F83 in particular). The unarced file is VIDEO.BLK, which looks similar to the VIDEO.BLK file from VIDEOF83.

1988, Forth Dimensions, volume 10, page 18

The individual files compressed within the archive file SUPPLIER on drive B are unarced and placed in the subdirectory […]

1988, Don Berliner, Managing Your Hard Disk, page 496

Windows setup entails unarcing files into system subdirectory […]

1991, InfoWorld, volume 13, numbers 9-17, page 390

MegaD also provides an easy method for arcing or unarcing files using various compression programs.

Early in the semester, students also had to learn how to ftp files from a remote site and unarc them using PKXARC.

2005, Kirk St. Amant, Pavel Zemliansky, Internet-based Workplace Communications

(computing, transitive) To extract (a file) from a compressed archive in ARC (file format).


autokill

(Internet, IRC) A software setting that automatically disconnects a user whenever he/she attempts to connect.


jump scare

They'd do something horrible, maybe kill off a few protagonists, and then make people sit around waiting for the next terrible thing to come along. They called it “setting up a jump scare.”

2011, Mira Grant, Deadline, Orbit, published 2011

Drag Me to Hell capitalizes on the jump scare, scattering it liberally throughout the film to the point where it becomes almost numbing.

2011, John Rosenberg, The Healthy Edit: Creative Techniques for Perfecting Your Movie, Focal Press, pages 80–81

This quiet is broken suddenly with an initial jump scare of the puppet's iconic laughter.

2013, Jeffrey Bullins, “Hearing the Game: Sound Design”, in James Aston, editor, To See the Saw Movies: Essays on Torture Porn and Post-9/11 Horror, McFarland & Company, page 188

(narratology) The technique, typically used in horror films and video games, of having something occur suddenly and without warning to frighten the audience.

säikäytys

a technique to suddenly scare the audience


jump scare

jump scare (third-person singular simple present jump scares, present participle jump scaring, simple past and past participle jump scared)

jump scares (present singular third-person)
jump scaring (participle present)
jump scared (participle past)
jump scared (past)

(transitive) To frighten (a film audience or video game player, etc.) by means of something that happens suddenly without warning.


vector image

(computing) An image file where the image’s elements (such as lines, circles and subimages) are stored as individual objects, as opposed to a raster or bitmap which stores the image’s pixels.


TOFU

(networking) Initialism of trust on first use, a type of network software security model where a client requests an identification code from a remote host when establishing the first connection.


GML

Game Maker Language
w:Game Maker Language

(computing) Initialism of Game Maker Language.

Generalized Markup Language
w:Generalized Markup Language

(computing) Initialism of Generalized Markup Language.

Generative Modelling Language
w:Generative Modelling Language

(computing) Initialism of Generative Modelling Language.

Geography Markup Language
w:Geography Markup Language

(computing) Initialism of Geography Markup Language.

Graph Modelling Language
w:Graph Modelling Language

(computing) Initialism of Graph Modelling Language.


box-drawing character

en-noun

box-drawing character (plural box-drawing characters)

(computing, typography) A text character used for creating geometric frames and boxes.


ABAP

Initially coined as short for German Allgemeiner Berichts-Aufbereitungs-Prozessor ("generic report preparation processor"); later assigned the English expansion.

(programming) Initialism of Advanced Business Application Programming


clickbaity

en-adj

clickbaity (comparative more clickbaity, superlative most clickbaity)

more clickbaity (comparative)
most clickbaity (superlative)

That video title looks clickbaity.

[…] all I can wonder is, "How would the 'Like A Prayer' video have been received in the age of Twitter and SEO-happy music blogs trying to capitalize on the clickbaity ways of its plotline and the artist behind it?"

2011 May 5, Maura Johnston, “Lady Gaga's 'Judas' Video: The Last Temptation Of Something-Or-Other”, in Village Voice

"Clickbaity headlines are taking over the Web. Today, publishers make more money from quantity than quality. They're incentivized to manipulate lots of people into clicking on a headline instead of getting engaged readers," CentUp stated.

2014 January 8, David Griner, “Can You Spot the BS Headlines in This Clickbait Quiz? CentUp mocks the idiocy of today's hottest content”, in Adweek

To put it another way: at the moment, Facebook assumes that people click on exactly the material that they want to click on, and that if it serves up a lot of clickbaity curiosity-gap headlines, then it’s giving its users what they want.

2014 February 3, Felix Salmon, “Viral math”, in Columbia Journalism Review

Yes it has a clickbaity title, and yes, this show will grind the gears of thousands – but it should.

2017 July 17, Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff, “Is Love Racist? The TV show laying our biases bare”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

(informal, derogatory) Of, related to, or characteristic of clickbait.


picspam

en-noun

picspam (countable and uncountable, plural picspams)

I think it was lysachan's site that got me into the series -- her picspams are fun, (heavy on the Prentiss love).

2010 April 25, cyn########, “Re: [ASLM] Life under the moss-covered rock”, in alt.shoe.lesbians.moderated (Usenet)

Days, weeks, even months are spent in creating vids, picspams, icons, original art, and sometimes novel-length works of fiction.

2013, Katherine Larsen, Lynn S. Zubernis, Fangasm: Supernatural Fangirls, University of Iowa Press, page 17

[…] television and movie fans posting fan fiction on LiveJournal, fans of celebrities creating picspams on Tumblr, […]

2014, Francesca Coppa, “Pop Culture, Fans, and Social Media”, in Jeremy Hunsinger, Theresa M. Senft, editors, The Social Media Handbook, Routledge, page 78

(Internet, informal, countable) A post on a blog featuring a collection of pictures, generally of the same subject or from the same source.

Arg. Stupid life. Camera phone, though, woo. Prepare for mucho picspam of, I dunno, my bedroom or my feet or something.

2008, Susie Day, serafina67 *urgently requires life*, Scholastic, page 67

Computers make creating and sharing picspam easy, but the power to pause, to stop time, and to frame one’s own still shots came with the rise of the VCR.

2009, Francesca Coppa, "A Fannish Taxonomy of Hotness", Cinema Journal, Volume 48, Number 4, Summer 2009, page 111

Long, and full of picspam... You have been warned!

2009 September 17, Kate XXXXXX, “Re: Part 3!”, in alt.sewing (Usenet)

(Internet, informal, uncountable) Such blog posts collectively.


MMB

(cryptography) Initialism of modular multiplication-based block cipher.


nymwars

(Internet, neologism) Conflicts over policies mandating that users of Internet services identify themselves using their real legal names.


autopatrolled

(wiki jargon, originally Wikimedia jargon) Having a status such that one's edits need not be checked, or patrolled, by other users.


terabaud

By using a large array of emitters and detectors operating at high modulation frequencies, data transmission in the terabaud region could be realized.

1994, Semiconductor Silicon, volume 7, page 488


autoflush

If the writer is set to autoflush mode, then all characters in the buffer are sent to their destination whenever println is called.

2001, Cay S. Horstmann, Gary Cornell, Core Java 2: Fundamentals, page 715

With autoflush off, you can easily start generating content, have your code throw it away halfway through, and then issue a redirect.

2002, Dave Rolsky, Ken Williams, Embedding Perl in HTML with Mason

(computing, programming) Automatic flushing of a buffer.


autoflush

en-verb

autoflush (third-person singular simple present autoflushes, present participle autoflushing, simple past and past participle autoflushed)

autoflushes (present singular third-person)
autoflushing (participle present)
autoflushed (participle past)
autoflushed (past)

(transitive, computing, programming) To flush (a buffer) automatically.


package manager

en-noun

package manager (plural package managers)

(software) A computer program responsible for installing, updating and configuring other software, maintaining an index of installed programs and resolving their dependencies.

包管理器

program responsible for installing and updating other software