fuzzable

Strings are by far the most common primitive that you will use. Strings are everywhere; usernames, IP addresses, directories, and many more things can be represented by strings. Sulley uses the s_string() directive to denote that the data contained within the primitive is a fuzzable string.

2009, Justin Seitz, Gray Hat Python: Python Programming for Hackers and Reverse Engineers

Sulley works by fuzzing the first fuzzable field to be fuzzed. While it is iterating through all the values it wants to try for that field, all the other fields are untouched and remain at their default value.

2012, Charlie Miller, Dion Blazakis, Dino DaiZovi, iOS Hacker's Handbook, page 172

(computing) Able to be fuzzed, i.e. tested with randomly generated input.


Menger's theorem

It was proved for edge-connectivity and vertex-connectivity by Karl Menger in 1927.

(graph theory) A characterization of the connectivity in finite undirected graphs in terms of the minimum number of disjoint paths that can be found between any pair of vertices.


GOE

About a year and a half ago, Schroeppel and Hickerson found a bunch of patterns with very small predecessor counts. These are used as modules in existence proofs for GOE's within various rectangles, some quite cozy.

1991 March 28, Bill Gosper, “on Life (and Death)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

This describes briefly the discovery of the first GOL GOE by Roger Banks, saying: "[he] used sophisticated mathematical techniques to prove that a certain 9-by-33 rectangular pattern is itself a Garden-of-Eden pattern."

1999 April 1, Tim Tyler, “proof for garden of eden in GOL ?”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

As far as I know, even a definite result for the 6x6 case would be progress. The most recent investigation of GoEs that I know about was some interesting work that Donald Knuth recently did in passing for his upcoming Volume 4 of _The Art of Computer Programming_, using binary decision diagrams.

2008 October 22, Dave Greene, “State wrt "Garden of Eden"in Conway's "Game of Life"”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

(cellular automata) Initialism of Garden of Eden.


right join

right outer join
right outer join#English


left outer join

en-noun

left outer join (plural left outer joins)

(databases) A join yielding a set of records for two tables, where all rows of the "left" table are enlisted with all rows of the "right" table, even if the join condition does not find any matching row on the "right".


right outer join

right outer join (plural right outer joins)

(databases) A join yielding a set of records for two tables, where all rows of the "right" table are enlisted with all rows of the "left" table, even if the join condition does not find any matching row on the "left".


full outer join

full outer join (plural full outer joins)

(databases) A join yielding a set of records for two tables, where all rows of the "left" table are enlisted with all rows of the "right" table, even if the join condition does not find any matching row on the "left" or on the "right" table.


IIFE

You’ve already seen it mentioned a few times, but in case it wasn’t clear, I’m proposing the term “Immediately-Invoked Function Expression”, and “IIFE” if you like acronyms. The pronunciation “iffy” was suggested to me, and I like it, so let’s go with that. What is an Immediately-Invoked Function Expression? It’s a function expression that gets invoked immediately. Just like the name would lead you to believe.

2010 November 15, Ben Alman, “Immediately-Invoked Function Expression (IIFE)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)

(programming) Initialism of immediately-invoked function expression.


unlinker

(computing) A program or process that unlinks.


CNCF

Cloud Native Computing Foundation
w:Cloud Native Computing Foundation

(cloud computing) Initialism of Cloud Native Computing Foundation, an organization created to promote and advance container technology.


web dev

web dev (countable and uncountable, plural web devs)

Thank you to the many web devs who have generously shared their knowledge with me, both directly and without even realising it.

2012, Oli Studholme, “Acknowledgments”, in Richard Clark, Oli Studholme, Christopher Murphy, Divya Manian, Beginning HTML5 and CSS3, Apress, Springer Science+Business Media, page xviii

Now hiring web devs, designers, illustrators, artists, etc. to volunteer for our #globalprteam.

2012, Robert McHale with Eric Garulay, Navigating Social Media Legal Risks: Safeguarding Your Business, Indianapolis, Ind.: Que Publishing, Pearson Education, Inc., page 153

Here, a range of leading web devs share their advice from an accumulated century of hard won experience to help you improve your web building abilities.

2013, Tom May, editor, The Ultimate Guide to Web Design, Bath: Future Publishing, page 7


bit banging

(computing, slang) A technique for serial communications using software instead of dedicated hardware. The software directly sets and samples the state of pins on the microcontroller.


shadow memory

(programming) The use of one part of computer memory to store information about other parts of memory, used for example to keep track of which parts have been allocated by the program.


microdocument

(computing) A short subsection of a document.


Fakémon

(fandom slang) A fake Pokémon; for example, any Pokémon invented in fanart.


optical mouse

(computing) A mouse (pointing device) that uses a light source and a light detector (for example, an LED and an array of photodiodes) to detect movement, as opposed to the earlier mechanical mouse.


mechanical mouse

mechanical mouse (plural mechanical mice)

Retronym for mouse, coined after the invention of the optical mouse to refer specifically to the type of mouse existing before then.

(computing) A pointing device which uses a ball to detect movement.


SPA

SPA (countable and uncountable, plural SPAs)

single-page application
single-page application#English

(web development) Initialism of single-page application.

(networking) Initialism of single-packet authorization.


orienate

Formed as orien + -ate, on model of Latin oriens, rather than from English orient + -ate.

(computing) (archaic) To move or turn toward the east; to veer from the north or south toward the east.


asynch

(computing) Abbreviation of asynchronous.


Kubernetes

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κυβερνήτης (kubernḗtēs, “captain, steersman”). Doublet of governor and cybernetics.

bor+

(computing) An open-source orchestrator system of containerized applications, originally designed by Google.


Atariesque

(video games, rare) Reminiscent or characteristic of Atari games or products, typified by pixellated graphics and blocky consoles.


lift and shift

(computing) The practice of deploying existing on-premises software to the cloud, with minimal changes to its architecture.


golden image

(computing) The master disk image used in the initialization of VMs, hard disks, etc.


VDI

(computing) Initialism of virtual desktop infrastructure.

(computing) Initialism of virtual disk image.


Timsort

From Tim + sort, named after Tim Peters, who implemented it in 2002 for the Python programming language.

(computing theory) A sorting algorithm derived from mergesort and insertion sort, designed to perform well on many kinds of real-world data.


Googlian

en-adj

Googlian (comparative more Googlian, superlative most Googlian)

more Googlian (comparative)
most Googlian (superlative)


commify

en-verb

commify (third-person singular simple present commifies, present participle commifying, simple past and past participle commified)

commifies (present singular third-person)
commifying (participle present)
commified (participle past)
commified (past)

(informal, chiefly software) To insert commas into (a piece of code).


secure by design

software engineering
software engineering

(software engineering, of software) designed from the ground up to be secure


Byzantine fault tolerance

en-noun

Byzantine fault tolerance (usually uncountable, plural Byzantine fault tolerances)

Byzantine fault tolerance (BFT) came about since it represents a valid solution to the Byzantine Generals Problem. BFT is a crucial part of an effective blockchain platform, and there are multiple ways in which tolerance can be implemented.

2020, Joseph Holbrook, Architecting Enterprise Blockchain Solutions, John Wiley & Sons, page 121

(computing) The dependability of a fault-tolerant (distributed) computer system, where components may fail without perfect information about the state of the components.

拜占庭容錯

dependability of a fault-tolerant computer system


warpless

a warpless speedrun

(video games) Without the use of warps to travel between sections of the game world.


bounce rate

(Internet marketing) The proportion of visitors who arrive at a website and then leave rather than continuing to view other pages within the same site.


mob programming

(software engineering) A software development approach where the whole team works on a single project at a single computer at the same time.


blockout

blockout (countable and uncountable, plural blockouts)

(countable, video games) A draft of a level where plain blocks serve as placeholders for environmental features.


Laplacian matrix

Laplacian matrix (plural Laplacian matrices)

Named after Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace (1749 – 1827), a French scholar whose work was important to the development of mathematics, statistics, physics and astronomy.

(graph theory) A square n×n matrix which describes an undirected graph of n vertices by letting rows and columns correspond to vertices, letting its diagonal elements contain the degrees of corresponding vertices and letting its non-diagonal elements contain either −1 or 0 depending on whether there is or there is not (respectively) an edge connecting the pair of corresponding vertices.


Cayley's formula

(graph theory) A formula for the number of spanning trees of a complete graph of n vertices: nⁿ⁻².


superpeer

(networking) A node in a peer-to-peer system that acts as a local server for other peers.


AYT

(networking) Initialism of are you there?: a telnet command sequence sent from client to server to verify that the connection is still active.


reshade

en-verb

reshade (third-person singular simple present reshades, present participle reshading, simple past and past participle reshaded)

reshades (present singular third-person)
reshading (participle present)
reshaded (participle past)
reshaded (past)

In addition, we can feed the output image back into the shader to reshade selected objects, without disturbing the color in other objects that share pixels with the one we are reshading.

1988, ACM SIGGRAPH 88: Course Notes 15th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, Atlanta, Georgia

(transitive, computer graphics) To render again with different shading.


Postel's law

Named after Internet pioneer Jon Postel (1943–1998).

named-after

Contravariance is consistent with Postel's Law: “Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send.”

2005, Jesse Liberty, Visual C# 2005: A Developer's Notebook, O'Reilly Media, page 47

(software engineering) The design principle that software should be conservative as to its own behaviour (i.e. strictly compliant with specifications) but liberal in the behaviour it tolerates from other systems.


linel

(computer graphics) A unit segment between surfels.


WISP

wireless internet service provider#English

Acronym of wireless internet service provider. (wireless ISP)


multiplat

(slang, video games) A game released for more than one platform.


wizard mode

The pinball usage is derived from The Who's 1969 concept album Tommy and its song "Pinball Wizard".

(video games, informal) A mode of play in roguelike games, allowing the player to create objects on demand, to be resurrected in the case of death, etc.


team deathmatch

en-noun

team deathmatch (plural team deathmatches)

(video games) A competitive mode found in multiplayer shooter games in which teams of (usually two) competitors attempt to assassinate each other. If there are more than two teams, the variant term multi-team deathmatch may be used.


call site

(programming) The section of code from which another section is called.


dance game

(video games) A video game where a player dances on a pressure-sensitive mat, attempting to follow a pattern of steps shown on screen in time to music.


artificial idiocy

From the analogy with artificial intelligence.

artificial stupidity
artificial stupidity#English


outhack

en-verb

outhack (third-person singular simple present outhacks, present participle outhacking, simple past and past participle outhacked)

outhacks (present singular third-person)
outhacking (participle present)
outhacked (participle past)
outhacked (past)

(transitive, computing) To surpass in hacking.


wedtro

There is no point in demos, they are made for fun. They don't show anything which would have a special point... unlike wedtro, xmastro, etc. 99% of demos are whole bunch of routines thrown together... some others don't and have kind of a story line, Angel IMO was one of them.

1995, Houman Ghahremanlou, “Stupid remarks !”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet)

Hi Trixter! Long time no speak! How's life for you these days? If everything goes well, I'll have to make a wedtro too in a few months ;).

2002, JAL / Nostalgia, “Old demos”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet)

(demoscene) An intro created to announce and celebrate a wedding.


quasitrivial

(mathematics, computing theory) Trivial in a restricted sense or to some limited extent.


NRE

(networking) Initialism of network reliability engineering.


iTard

That would be very much like telling the iTards they'll never have a reason to wait in line to get robbed again. They'd form lines and wait with their credit cards in their hands anyway because that's all the sheep know how to do.

2012 September 30, Sinister Midget [username], “Re: Eyecandy: Meet Compton the new Lightweight Composite Manager”, in comp.os.linux.advocacy (Usenet)

(slang, derogatory) A user of Apple Inc. products.


FBML

Although you can use standard JavaScript and AJAX in sandboxed iframe pages to your heart's content, the Facebook Platform places restrictions over the amount of scripting capabilities you can add to the more tightly integrated FBML pages.

2011, Richard Wagner, Building Facebook Applications For Dummies

(Internet) Initialism of Facebook markup language.


toplevel

(programming) Alternative form of top-level


ISMS

Information Security
information security#English

Management System
management system#English

(computing, Internet) Initialism of Information Security Management System.


EWS

(Microsoft, software) Initialism of Exchange Web Services. (an API for the Microsoft Exchange e-mail server)


TAA

temporal anti-aliasing
w:temporal anti-aliasing

(computing) Initialism of temporal anti-aliasing.


AA tree

From the initials of its inventor Arne Andersson. Coined by Mark Allen Weiss in 1994.

(computing) A form of balanced tree used for storing and retrieving ordered data efficiently, a variation of the red-black tree.


autoconcurrent

(computing theory) Exhibiting or relating to autoconcurrency; occurring simultaneously and in parallel.


SMBSS

Super Mario Bros. Super Show!
w:Super Mario Bros. Super Show!

Initialism of Super Mario Bros. Super Show!.


softirq

The second strategy consists of continuously rechecking for pending softirqs.

2005, Daniel P. Bovet, Marco Cesati, Understanding the Linux Kernel

(computing) A software interrupt request.


graphics adapter

en-noun

graphics adapter (plural graphics adapters)


UNIVAC

Universal Automatic Computer
w:Universal Automatic Computer

(historical, computing) Acronym of Universal Automatic Computer.


VLSM

(computing) Initialism of variable-length subnet masking.


AVL tree

Named after Georgy Adelson-Velsky and Evgenii Landis, the inventors of this data structure.

(computer science) A self-balancing binary search tree, where, for each node, the heights of the two child subtrees differ only by at most one.


MDAC

Microsoft Data Access Components
w:Microsoft Data Access Components

(computing) Initialism of Microsoft Data Access Components.


compile-time

(computing) Operations performed by a compiler (the “compile-time operations”).

Programming language
programming language

(computing) Programming language requirements that must be met by source code for it to be successfully compiled (the “compile-time requirements”).

(programming) Properties of the program that can be reasoned about during compilation.


dress-up game

(video games) A simple form of video game in which the player can dress a character in various different clothing.


agilist

(software engineering) A practitioner of agile software development.


Kleene closure

Named in honor of Stephen Cole Kleene (1909–1994), an American mathematician. The “closure” part comes from the fact that a Kleene closure is closed with respect to concatenation; cf. free monoid.

(mathematics, computer science) The set of all strings of finite length made up of elements of a given set. (Then the Kleene closure is said to be of that given set. For a given set S, its Kleene closure may be denoted as S^*. The Kleene closure includes a string of zero length. Strings are equivalent to ordered tuples but written without the parentheses and commas.)


geopbyte

Any substantial company that doesn't take advantage of its own geopbytes of available data is in danger of eventual extinction.

2015, Jenny Dearborn, Data Driven, page 41

Chapter 16, “Healthcare Analytics”: Covering data analytics/big data/population management; effectively managing the geopbytes of data out there lurking in our electronic records […]

2015, Patricia Sengstack, Charles Boicey, Mastering Informatics: A Healthcare Handbook for Success, page 18

You cannot wrap your head around how big a geopbyte is.

(computing, informal) 10³⁰ bytes; a thousand brontobytes


SQS

Simple Queue Service
w:Amazon Simple Queue Service

(cloud computing) Initialism of Simple Queue Service (an Amazon-hosted message queue service for web applications.)

Simple Queue Service

Spatial Query Server
w:Spatial Query Server

(databases) Initialism of Spatial Query Server (Boeing's spatial database)


pre-fire

en-verb

pre-fire (third-person singular simple present pre-fires, present participle pre-firing, simple past and past participle pre-fired)

pre-fires (present singular third-person)
pre-firing (participle present)
pre-fired (participle past)
pre-fired (past)

I could hear him just around the corner, so I just started pre-firing until he walked right into the cascade of bullets.

There will be times you go from a full health bar to almost dead in one round of cart combat, but you can always repair at the next town, and there are definitely attacks that you can "pre-fire" to prevent getting bogged down and stay healthy.

2015, Andrew Fretz, “'Wizards and Wagons' Review - Shop Management Gets Mobile”, in TouchArcade, archived from the original on 2018-04-21

I've seen others where players follow an unseen opponent with their crosshair and pre-fire as they turn the corner for an instant kill.

2016, Rich Stanton, “A negative-sum game: Policing Counter-Strike: GO cheaters with Overwatch”, in Ars Technica, archived from the original on 2018-01-19

Steel, however, was stuck behind the corner in Squeeky, and he was forced to prefire the Squeeky opening because he knew dephh had to kill him to win the round before time ran out.

2018, Jamie Villanueva, “Steel’s clutch vs coL gives Torqued its first qualifier spot at DreamHack Tours”, in Dot Esports, archived from the original on 2018-04-24

(video games, intransitive) To shoot at the anticipated location of another player before they are visible or within range.


deauthenticate

deauthenticate (third-person singular simple present deauthenticates, present participle deauthenticating, simple past and past participle deauthenticated)

deauthenticates (present singular third-person)
deauthenticating (participle present)
deauthenticated (participle past)
deauthenticated (past)

(transitive, computing) To revoke the authentication of; to cause no longer to be authenticated.


Flajolet-Martin algorithm

Introduced by Philippe Flajolet and G. Nigel Martin in their 1984 article "Probabilistic Counting Algorithms for Data Base Applications".

(computing theory) An algorithm for approximating the number of distinct elements in a stream with a single pass and logarithmic space consumption.


off-side rule

The computer-programming sense was coined by British computer scientist Peter Landin in 1966 and named after the rule in football.

coin

Blocks in Pythons are delimited by white space indentation: the increase in indentation delimited the start of statements while the decrease signifies the end of the current block (off-side rule).

2018, Encyclopedia of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Elsevier, page 195

programming language
programming language

(programming) In some programming languages, the convention by which the indentation of a line of source code affects its meaning.


jump'n'run

The scene of jumping on an invisible bridge is then to be seen as a discourse fragment that builds a discourse strand together with other elements (e.g., in the context of other jump'n'runs) that lead into a shared discourse that itself can be integrated into an elementary discourse or a dispositive (cf. Jäger 2004, 117). In the framework of a discourse analysis, Lara Croft's death jump would not be conceived as a unique moment or narrative.

2014, Jason Thompson, The Game Culture Reader, page 69

The ideal example to illustrate the technique of Mickey-Mousing would, of course, be Warren Spector's Epic Mickey (2010), a jump'n'run game for the Nintendo Wii console in which the namesake of this scoring concept has to travel through wastelands and cartoon universes and meet inhabitants like Oswald the Rabbit, Mickey's historic predecessor abandoned by Disney Productions decades ago.

2012, Peter Moormann, Music and Game: Perspectives on a Popular Alliance, page 98

There are tons of first person shooters, millions of car or racing games, and thousands of platformers. All great ideas will be cloned and remade sooner or later. My friends and I have paid homage to a couple of our favorite Jump 'n' Runs with Pitiri 1977.

2014, Jürgen Brunner, Getting Started with Clickteam Fusion

The absence of classical input options certainly complicates the playing of typical genre games as represented by, for example, Jump'n'Runs or Shoot'em Ups. Nevertheless, the touch-sensitive surface of iOS devices offers the possibility of emulating the missing joystick or game pad […]

2016, Thomas Lucka, iOS Game Development: Developing Games for iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch

(video games) A platform game that involves jumping over obstacles.


interserver

An interserver communications server can support and communication facility: connection-based, connectionless, urgent messages, communication via shared memory, and other paradigms.

1987, Y. Artsy, A Study of Fully Open Computing Systems, page 58


macOS

From Mac (“Macintosh”) + OS (“operating system”).

(operating systems, trademark) A major operating system, formerly known as OS X (and before that as Mac OS X), used on laptop and desktop computers by Apple, Inc.

operating systems; trademark; operating systems; trademark


toplist

(Internet) A list of websites on a certain topic or in a certain category, ranked by the number of visitors they receive.


decompactor

(computing) A program or algorithm for decompressing data.


superalignment

en-noun

superalignment (countable and uncountable, plural superalignments)

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

(artificial intelligence) Aligning of a future superhuman artificial intelligence.


Hopcroft's algorithm

finite-state automaton
finite-state automaton

(computing theory) An algorithm for merging the non-distinguishable states of a deterministic finite-state automaton, based on partitioning the states into groups by their behaviour.


skip list

Skip list follows a linked list alike structure. However, the worst case time complexity for a search operation in linked list in O(n) as the list is linearly traversed while searching whereas for a skip list it is O(#x5C;logn).

2021, Neeraj Kumar, Arzoo Miglani, Probabilistic Data Structures for Blockchain-Based Internet of Things Applications, CRC Press, page 187

(computing theory) A probabilistic data structure that allows fast search within an ordered sequence of elements by maintaining a linked hierarchy of subsequences, with each successive subsequence skipping over fewer elements than the previous one.


subtrie

(computer science) A trie data structure making up part of a larger trie.


wordsize

(computing) The size of a word, normally 32 or 64 bits (binary digits).


finger-friendly

en-adj

finger-friendly (comparative more finger-friendly, superlative most finger-friendly)

more finger-friendly (comparative)
most finger-friendly (superlative)

(computing) Designed to work well with touch-screen input, as well as or instead of mouse, trackball, etc.


cubesort

From cube + sort, in reference to the multidimensional data structure.

(computing theory) A parallel sorting algorithm that builds a self-balancing multidimensional array from the keys to be sorted.


gamescape

More will find their ways into video games because the gamescapes remain unregulated by the FTC. If video games should ever become protected as 'free speech' under the First Amendment (that's what the industry and retailers want), it will be very difficult to regulate the advertisements in video games because they will become part of a protected 'free speech!'

2008, Christopher Thomas Miller, Games: Purpose and Potential in Education, page 205

The virtual landscape within a video game.


self-balancing

a self-balancing binary search tree

(computing theory) Of a data structure: able to maintain a small height (number of levels) regardless of insertions and deletions.


Bushnell's Law

Attributed to video-game pioneer Nolan Bushnell.

The rule that the best video games are easy to learn but difficult to master.


Church-Rosser theorem

Introduced by Alonzo Church and J. Barkley-Rosser in a 1936 paper.

(mathematics, computing theory) A theorem stating that, when applying reduction rules to terms in the lambda calculus, the ordering in which the reductions are chosen makes no difference to the eventual result.


video board

(computing) A board that outputs video to a screen; a graphics card.


friend request

request for friendship (on social media)


subiteration

(mathematics, computing) A subsidiary iteration


cocktail table

A form of arcade game cabinet resembling a table of this kind, with the screen built into the top surface and facing upwards.


Moore graph

Named in 1960 by Hoffman and Singleton, after Edward F. Moore, who posed the question of describing and classifying these graphs.

(graph theory) A regular graph of degree d and diameter k whose number of vertices equals the upper bound 1+d∑ᵢ₌₀ᵏ⁻¹(d-1)ⁱ.


cocktail cabinet

en-noun

cocktail cabinet (plural cocktail cabinets)

Synonym of cocktail table (“style of arcade game cabinet”)


hedonium

Suppose that we agreed to allow almost the entire accessible universe to be converted into hedonium—everything except a small preserve, say the Milky Way, which would be set aside to accommodate our own needs.

2014, Nick Bostrom, Superintelligence, page 219

It’s because we intuitively or pre-theoretically think that we shouldn’t give all our cookies to the utility monster or kill ourselves to tile the solar system with hedonium that we reject the straightforward extension of utilitarian happiness-maximizing theory to such cases and reach for a different solution.

2015 November 17, Eric Schwitzgebel, Mara Garza, “A Defense of the Rights of Artificial Intelligences”, in Midwest Studies in Philosophy

Suppose the AI goes on to convert all matter in the accessible universe to hedonium, i.e., to rearrange matter so as to produce the greatest amount of pleasurable experience per unit mass.

2016, Olle Häggström, Here Be Dragons, page 122

The Machine Intelligence Research Institute's Buck Shlegeris recently recounted a conversation where “someone said that after the Singularity, if there was a magic button that would turn all of humanity into homogenous goop optimized for happiness (aka hedonium), they'd press it.[…]”

2020, Brian Christian, “Uncertainty”, in The Alignment Problem, New York: W.W. Norton & Company

(philosophy of artificial intelligence, rare) Matter arranged in a way that produces pleasure or happiness as efficiently as possible, as might be encouraged by philosophical hedonism.


remote hands

(computing) Technicians who perform tasks on demand at a remote site, typically a data centre.


fraggle attack

The original proof-of-concept code, in the C programming language, was called fraggle.c.

(computing, security) A particular variation of the smurf attack, using UDP traffic bearing the victim's spoofed IP address sent to certain standard ports.


Quoran

(Internet) A user of Quora, an online community where people answer each other's questions.


domain kiting

(Internet) The (often repeated) cancellation and reregistration of a domain name so as to exploit the grace period to display advertisements on the domain while not paying for it.


nuke and pave

en-verb

nuke and pave (third-person singular simple present nukes and paves, present participle nuking and paving, simple past and past participle nuked and paved)

nukes and paves (present singular third-person)
nuking and paving (participle present)
nuked and paved (participle past)
nuked and paved (past)

I'm so sorry, I was hoping that we could see each other . . . there is a solution to this, when you are here, before you go back, I can take my computer in and get it nuked and paved.

2009, T. G. Diamond, My Darling Davis, how real is your love?, page 290

(computing, slang) To wipe a computer's hard disk and reinstall everything, as a drastic fix for problems.


domain tasting

(Internet) Any of various forms of exploitation of the grace period during which a newly registered domain name can be cancelled.


GamerGate

Alternative letter-case form of Gamergate


freedomware

[…] And last of the “open software”, a rarer implementation is sourceware. A variation of freedomware, sourceware offers “open source” code with “closed (proprietary) standards”.

2005, Sys Admin: The Journal for UNIX System Administrators, page 48

(software, rare) free software (with source code available), distinguished from freeware


overindex

overindex (third-person singular simple present overindexes, present participle overindexing, simple past and past participle overindexed)

overindexes (present singular third-person)
overindexing (participle present)
overindexed (participle past)
overindexed (past)

(programming, transitive) To attempt to access an element beyond the bounds of (an array).


routability

(chiefly computing) Ability to be routed.


dotted quad

(Internet) An IPv4 address in the form of four numbers separated by dots, such as 127.0.0.1.


macroblocking

(computer graphics) A visual artifact in compressed video etc. where similar adjacent pixels appear as a contiguous block of colour.


GGEV

(computing) A routine in LAPACK for computing eigenvalues.


exabit

(computing) One quintillion (10¹⁸, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000) bits or 1,000 petabits.


regular map

Morphism of algebraic varieties
Regular map (graph theory)

1990 [McGraw-Hill], Jay Kappraff, Connections: The Geometric Bridge Between Art and Science, 2001, World Scientific, page 141,
Just as there are only five regular maps on the sphere (or plane), there are only three classes of regular maps that can be created on a torus.

If n is finite, the regular map is a tessellation of the plane by congruent n-sided polygons, m of which meet at each vertex.

2010, Jozef Širáñ, Yan Wang, “Maps with highest level of symmetry that are even more symmetric than other such maps: Regular maps with largest exponent groups”, in Richard A. Brualdi, Samat Hedayat, Hadi Kharaghani, Gholamreza B. Khosrovshahi, Shahriar Shahriari, editors, Combinatorics and Graphs: The Twentieth Anniversary Conference of IPM Combinatorics, American Mathematical Society, page 98

2013, Roman Nedela, Martin Škoviera, 7.6: Maps, Jonathan L. Gross, Jay Yellen, Ping Zhang (editors), Handbook of Graph Theory, 2nd Edition, CRC Press, page 845,
If M is a regular map of type p,q, then mathit Aut(M)≈Δ(p,q,2)/N for some normal subgroup N⊴Δ(p,q,2). Similar statements hold for the class of orientably regular maps and subgroups of Δ⁺ and Δ⁺(p,q,2).

(graph theory) A symmetric tessellation of a closed surface; a decomposition of a two-dimensional manifold into topological disks such that every flag (incident vertex-edge-face triple) can be transformed into any other flag by a symmetry (i.e., an automorphism) of the decomposition.


return-oriented programming

(programming) A computer security exploit technique by which the attacker gains control of the call stack to hijack program control flow and then executes prepared instruction sequences ("gadgets") that are already present in the machine's memory.


code cave

Once a code cave is created, you can execute it using either thread injection or thread hijacking.

2016, Nick Cano, Game Hacking: Developing Autonomous Bots for Online Games

In ELF executables, there aren't a whole lot of code caves (such as in the PE format), so you are not likely to be able to shove more than just a meager amount of shellcode into existing code slots […]

2016, Ryan "elfmaster" O'Neill, Learning Linux Binary Analysis (page 97)

(programming) A sequence of null bytes in a process's memory, offering the capacity for the injection of custom instructions by a hacker.


text hooker

A text hooker allows English-speaking people to read Japanese visual novels.

A text hooker, or at least what I'm calling a text hooker, is a program or function that hijacks the text output of a game (in realtime) and outputs somewhere else so that you can copy/paste or whatever you want with it.

2005, User Ugly Joe, Zophar's Message Domain

AGTH (Anime Game Text Hooker) is a tool for capturing text from running programs.

(computing) Software that reads text from other software that is being executed, often for the purpose of replacing the text with its translation in another language.


bootscan

(computing) An antivirus scan that takes place before the operating system has loaded.


non-realtime

(computing) Alternative form of nonrealtime


spie chart

A pictorial graph where a radar chart is superimposed over a pie chart to compare two sets of data.


hub-and-spoke

(transport, networking) Being or relating to a topology, whether for the physical distribution of goods or for telecommunications, that has a central "hub" connecting a number of outlying "spokes".


most vexing parse

The phrase was introduced by Scott Meyers in Effective STL (2001).

(programming) A specific form of syntactic ambiguity resolution in the C++ programming language, whereby attempts to declare a variable may be undesirably interpreted as attempts to declare a function.


microcomputerized

(computing) Containing or using a microcomputer


scambait

scambait (third-person singular simple present scambaits, present participle scambaiting, simple past and past participle scambaited)

scambaits (present singular third-person)
scambaiting (participle present)
scambaited (participle past)
scambaited (past)

(Internet) To pose as a potential victim of a scam, usually the Nigerian scam, in order to waste the scammer's time and resources.


zero-based

Zero-based budgeting
Zero-based numbering

(programming) Of an array or list: such the first element of the array or list is called the "zeroth".


yo-yo mode

(computing, slang) The condition of having repeated intermittent failures, such that the system alternates between being up and down.


(video games, computer graphics) Halfway between two-dimensional and three-dimensional; typically limited to a two-dimensional plane with only limited access to the third dimension.


skeleton screen

en-noun

skeleton screen (plural skeleton screens)

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface) A simplified display with empty placeholders for content that has not yet loaded.


WinPE

(computing, Windows) Abbreviation of Microsoft Windows Preinstallation Environment.


parsimonization

(mathematics, computing) Conversion to a parsimonious form


season pass

(video games) A digital season ticket that grants a user the access to all current and future DLC for a video game.


KERNAL

From an accidental misspelling of kernel, sometimes backronymed as Keyboard Entry Read, Network, And Link.

The KERNAL is an 8K ROM located at $E000 to $FFFF, which contains the operating system for the C-64.

1986, John Gordon, Ian McLean, Commodore 64 Advanced User Guide, Prentice Hall

(computing, historical) The operating system used by early Commodore International home computers.


trashbox

Liam shook his head, and clicked on inbox. Wasn't much in it, or in the outbox, or in the trashbox.

1999, Dana Stabenow, So Sure of Death, page 52

(computing) An electronic folder for deleted electronic mail.


Nintendium

From Nintendo + -ium (“suffix for naming new elements”).

suffix

[W]hatever they make Nintendo systems out of ("Nintendium," as it's come to be known) seems to be able to withstand anything.

2015 August 3, u/MistaSnowman (username), Hey /r/nintendo, what's your best "Nintendium" story?, r/nintendo (Reddit), archived from the original on 26 May 2020, accessed 26 May 2020

The Joy-Cons need to be comfortable, light, and feel like they’re made of Nintendium (the mysterious alloys Nintendo used in the original NES controller, seemingly related to Gundanium).

2016, Will Greenwald, Nintendo Switch Looks Really Promising, Here’s How They Might Screw It Up, Geek.com

All components feel very sturdy and of solid construction (Nintendium still being used!).

2017, Cory Arnold, Hands-on: Nintendo Switch won't blow you away but will satisfy core gamers, Destructoid

(humorous) A fictional material credited for the durability of several Nintendo products.


VCL

(Delphi, programming) Initialism of Visual Component Library.


(computing) A programming language descended from Pascal, developed between 1977 and 1985 at the ETH in Zurich.


FMX

(Delphi, programming) Initialism of FireMonkey.


webbased

en-adj

webbased (comparative more webbased, superlative most webbased)

more webbased (comparative)
most webbased (superlative)


mousepress

(computing) The act of pressing one of the buttons on a mouse


Twitterer

(Internet) A user of the website Twitter.


wordfilter

Facebook does not allow for pre-moderation of comments on pages and comments cannot be turned off, however NSW supreme court justice Stephen Rothman had argued that the media companies could have used a word filter using extremely common words to pre-filter the majority of comments to only be visible to the page owner and that user and their friends.

2020 June 1, Josh Taylor, “Australian media companies face defamation liability for comments on Facebook after court dismisses appeal”, in The Guardian

(computing) Software that monitors text input to chatrooms etc., deleting or modifying offensive language.


Pikaclone

(fandom slang) A Pokémon that resembles, or is seemingly inspired by, Pikachu.


finsta

Clipping of finstagram, from fake + Instagram.

“My little sister who's in middle school is doing finstas,” Carrie said.

2017, Nancy Jo Sales, American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers, page 134

On a seemingly regular basis, young White people's overtly racist remarks are moved out of the shadows of their “Finstas” (fake instagram accounts) and into the “public” domain to be judged by all.

2020, Christopher D. DeSante, Candis Watts Smith, The Millennial Generation and the Stagnation of Racial Attitudes in American Politics, page 101

I'd say the concept of sliding into one's DMs [direct messages] on Instagram is very powerful, especially because finstas allow people to be more open about things.

2021, anonymous student, quoted in Roberta Katz, Sarah Ogilvie, & Jane Shaw, Gen Z, Explained: The Art of Living in a Digital Age, page 74

(informal) A secondary Instagram account under which one posts privately or anonymously.


radiotracker

(Internet) Any of several devices that augment access to Internet radio sites


MUA

A “mail user agent” (MUA or UA) that lets users read and compose mail[.]

2011, Evi Nemeth et al., UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook, Pearson Education, page 744

(computing) Initialism of mail user agent.


VMCI

(programming) Initialism of Virtual Machine Communication Interface.


DoggoLingo

(Internet slang, neologism) A form of English-language Internet slang related to dogs, using words such as doggo, woofer, bork, mlem, and heckin'.


do someone a frighten

en-verb

do someone a frighten (third-person singular simple present does someone a frighten, present participle doing someone a frighten, simple past did someone a frighten, past participle done someone a frighten)

does someone a frighten (present singular third-person)
doing someone a frighten (participle present)
did someone a frighten (past)
done someone a frighten (participle past)

Intentionally incorrect grammar for comedic purposes; compare do a listen and can haz. Originated with the “Stop It Son, You Are Doing Me a Frighten” meme; first known use is on 8 November 2015, in an iFunny post by watarimono.

Together they hiked until they came upon a crevasse that was too wide to leap. To get across, they would have to climb down into the crevasse, cross over on a sliver of ice that served as a quasi bridge, then climb back up. Which did Stickeen a frighten. The previously unfazed dog was suddenly very fazed and absolutely, positively refused to cross.

2019 October, Mackenzi Lee, The History of the World in Fifty Dogs, Abrams

(Internet slang, humorous) To frighten someone.


Jigglypuff

en-noun

Jigglypuff (plural Jigglypuff or Jigglypuffs)

Jigglypuff (plural)
Jigglypuffs (plural)

When they pointed out that I'd have to pay a couple of hundred bucks if I ever rejoined, I just laughed at them, pressed my fingertips to my temples, and visualized about seven and a half pounds off my jigglypuff thighs.

2004, Celia Rivenbark, We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle, pages 151–152

They sleep when you on the mic, you're fucking Jigglypuff

2007, Demigodz, “Well, Well, Well”, in The Godz Must Be Crazier

And when your body type is "Kirby" or "Jigglypuff", finding a style that is meant for your shape is next to impossible.

2015, Barbara Sorrelson, 45 Reasons It Sucks to be Fat: Daily Diet Motivation, page 27

(sometimes attributive) Something that resembles the Pokémon Jigglypuff, e.g. by being rotund, bright pink, or able to induce sleep.


DFS

Coordinate term: BFS

depth-first search
depth-first search#English

(graph theory) Initialism of depth-first search.


BFS

Coordinate term: DFS

breadth-first search
breadth-first search#English

(graph theory) Initialism of breadth-first search.


iterative deepening search

iterative deepening search (countable and uncountable, plural iterative deepening searches)

breadth-first search
breadth-first search

(computer science, graph theory) A type of depth-first search in which each row of the tree is searched incrementally, simulating a breadth-first search with less memory usage.


VMM

(computing) Abbreviation of virtual machine manager (of RedHat)

virtual machine monitor
virtual machine monitor#English

(computing) Abbreviation of virtual machine monitor (a hypervisor)

(computing) Abbreviation of virtual memory manager.


virtual machine monitor

virtual machine monitor (plural virtual machine monitors)


big dick energy

The Spice Girls had Big Dick Energy in abundance, years before Twitter coined the term.

2018, Lauren Bravo, chapter 5, in What would the Spice Girls do?: How the Girl Power Generation Grew Up, Transworld Publishers

I didn't really want Brunhild being associated with big dick energy. We were just a fledgling nation, so it’d be bad for our image.

2018, Patora Fuyuhara, In Another World With My Smartphone: Volume 11

“Told you so.” My brother finished his drink and grabbed both their empty glasses. “He needs to quit worrying about upsetting people and use that big dick energy he’s got for his own good.”

2019, Kristin Harte, Penance: A Vigilante Justice Novel, Kinship Press,

(slang, vulgar) Unassuming self-confidence.


WDI

(Microsoft) Initialism of Windows Diagnostic Infrastructure.


demostyle

Yea, it's got some good GDM's... The music is basically a cross between House, Demostyle, and Classical (don't ask). It's got some killer music in it, like Click.gdm, and Bounce.gdm (take a guess what that is :) )

1999, Luke Drelick, “ZZT”, in alt.games.final-fantasy (Usenet)

download modules in the same style as your ideas [if you don't know where to get that particular style, ask in this group :), especially with danceable music like trance, house, drum'n'bass, techno, etc, and with demostyle music, there are lots of tracks with very good samples available, if you know where to find them. And we know that.], and extract the samples. that is by far the best way to get suitable samples. Archives very often contain bad or useless samples except for this very one single particular style/setup/idea/emotion/etc.

2000, eggbird, “Need sound files for tracking”, in alt.music.mods (Usenet)

(demoscene) Of a musical style popular in the demoscene, involving tracker modules usually assembled from samples played at various pitches.


dark pattern

Coined by user-experience consultant Harry Brignull in 2010.

coin

It was really easy to register an account on the app, but the option to delete my account seemed almost impossible, which made me feel like a victim of a dark pattern.

The Impersonation dark pattern occurs when these broadcasts communicate actions users never performed, thus misleading others.

2014, Chris Lewis, Irresistible Apps: Motivational Design Patterns for Apps, Games, and Web-based Communities

Brignull's specific goal in identifying dark patterns was to recognize and name companies, and describe their dark practices so that people would be aware of dark patterns in an interface, and to shame the companies using them.

2015, Nicolai Marquardt, Proxemic Interactions: From Theory to Practice, page 140

Consumers are faced with dark patterns on a daily basis; whether they want to use an online retailer, unsubscribe from a service, protect their privacy, and in many other situations.

2021 January 14, Norwegian Consumer Council, You can log out, but you can never leave

(graphical user interface) A user interface that is intentionally designed to trick users into doing things that are not in their own best interest, such as giving up more information, or agreeing to unfavourable terms.


continuous delivery

en-noun

continuous delivery (plural continuous deliveries)

Coordinate term: continuous deployment

software engineering
software engineering

(software engineering) An approach where teams produce software in short cycles, ensuring that the software can be reliably released at any time.


Linuxism

(computing, informal) Any feature specific to the Linux operating system (usually in comparison to other UNIX-like systems like BSD).


modbot

(Internet) An automated software agent that moderates a discussion forum by removing unacceptable postings, etc.


memeify

en-verb

memeify (third-person singular simple present memeifies, present participle memeifying, simple past and past participle memeified)

memeifies (present singular third-person)
memeifying (participle present)
memeified (participle past)
memeified (past)

(Internet slang) To form an Internet meme out of something.


memeification

en-noun

memeification (countable and uncountable, plural memeifications)

“Trump Draws” was one of the earliest memeifications of newly-sworn President Trump, capturing the childlike delight that (at first) attended his signing of fancy documents with spiffy pens.

2017 December 27, Michael Andor Brodeur, “The meme class of 2017”, in The Boston Globe

“Letterboxd has successfully tapped into the Gen Z phenomenon of ‘the memeification of everything’,” explains Rachel Lee of The Digital Fairy, a creative agency specialising in internet and youth culture.

2024 February 29, Jack King, quoting Rachel Lee, “Why everyone you know is suddenly a Letterboxd head”, in GQ

(Internet) The process of forming an Internet meme out of something.


arraylet

(programming) Any of the subarrays that make up a larger array-like data structure whose elements do not have to be stored contiguously.


self-interpreter

(programming) A metacircular interpreter where the host programming language is also the language being interpreted.


memelord

RYAN CHONG Editor & Journalist - Recipe A quirky student who likes food and bubbletea during the day but a punny memelord at night :)

2016 September, The Raven Review, page 3

“Jesus,” Hannah said, “this memelord in my bio class keeps saying that. Is it from something?” “Oh, yeah, you've got to watch it,” Sebastian said.

2018, Riley Redgate, Final Draft, Abrams

Elon Musk: Memelord or Meme Lifter? [headline]

2021 May 7, Taylor Lorenz, “Elon Musk: Memelord or Meme Lifter?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Which is why it’s easy to understand the draw, particularly when it’s fed by an army of meme lords on Reddit, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and Telegram, promising that this is the next big opportunity in crypto.

2021 May 21, Nick Bilton, “Inside the Rise and Fall (and Rise and Fall) of Shit Coins”, in Vanity Fair

Yeah, this is what’s known as the Elon Musk memelord thesis, basically. And he is the uber memelord. And he can move things like Dogecoin just by tweeting.

2022 April 29, Ezra Klein, “Elon Musk Might Break Twitter. Maybe That’s a Good Thing.” (14:17 from the start), in The Ezra Klein Show (podcast), spoken by Felix Salmon

(Internet slang) A person known for creating or distributing memes (usually humorous material copied and circulated online).


three-revert rule
three-revert rule#English

(Wikimedia jargon) Initialism of three-revert rule.


three-revert rule

(Wikimedia jargon) A rule on the English Wikipedia which forbids more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period by an editor.

Wikipedia:Edit warring#The three-revert rule


reddiquette

(Reddit) Proper conduct to be followed on the website Reddit.


ungolfed

the original, ungolfed code

(programming) Not having been written in short form according to the challenge of code golf.


untunneled

(computing, networking) Not using a tunnel (wrapper for insecure or unsupported protocol).


untrolled

en-adj

untrolled (comparative more untrolled, superlative most untrolled)

more untrolled (comparative)
most untrolled (superlative)


anticycle

(graph theory) A cycle in the complement of a given graph.


autonumber

Any autonumber has three parts: a fixed prefix, an incremental number, and a changing suffix. Prefixes have a maximum length of three and are used for all system-generated numbers for the selected record type.

2013, Dipankar Bhattacharya, Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Cookbook

(computing) An automatically generated number.


autonumber

en-verb

autonumber (third-person singular simple present autonumbers, present participle autonumbering, simple past and past participle autonumbered)

autonumbers (present singular third-person)
autonumbering (participle present)
autonumbered (participle past)
autonumbered (past)

Will it still autonumber the lines for me […] ?

2007, Andre Ben-Hamou, Practical Ruby for System Administration, page 102

(computing, transitive) To number automatically.


HPKP

HTTP Public Key Pinning
w:HTTP Public Key Pinning

(Internet) Initialism of HTTP Public Key Pinning.


microinteraction

(graphical user interface) Any very small-scale interaction between a user and the system they are using.


wildmat

Blend of wildcard + match or Blend of wildcard + format

(Internet) A pattern matching library for matching strings with certain wildcards, used in NNTP. Also refers to its own format.


skyline operator

en-noun

skyline operator (plural skyline operators)

(databases) A proposed operator, for use in database queries, that filters out results that are worse than others according to multiple criteria.


emojification

/ɪˌməʊd͡ʒɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/

I know I am going to enjoy all the emojification extensions and making life harder on my coworkers.

2016, Eric Downey, Practical Swift, page xxi

[…] to send text, pictures, videos, sound, and location, including bubble and screen effects, emoji tapbacks and full-on emojification, digital touch and handwriting […]

2017, James Perren, Applications of CALL Theory in ESL and EFL Environments, page 46

The goal of this study is to assess the demand for “emojification” of Turkish cultural symbols and determine the appropriate symbols to use in cultural interaction in Turkey.

2017, Gülcan Şener, G. Motif Atar, “The Transformation of Unique Turkish Cultural Symbols into Emoji: A Study of Cultural Symbols in Digital Communications”, in İstanbul Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi Dergisi, number 53, page 191

(Internet) The conversion into an emoji or emojis (e.g. the word smile into 🙂) or the creation of an emoji or emojis from an existing iconography.


CBOR

Sometimes interpreted as a backronym formed from the author's name, Professor Carsten Bormann.

Coordinate term: JSON

Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR) is a lightweight encoding scheme with support for binary data. CBOR is designed to be extremely lightweight in terms of code and message sizes. CBOR is based on JSON and fully supports the JSON syntax and data types.

2018, Giancarlo Fortino, Carlos E. Palau, Antonio Guerrieri, Nora Cuppens, Frédéric Cuppens, Hakima Chaouchi, Alban Gabillon, Interoperability, Safety and Security in IoT: Third International Conference, InterIoT 2017, and Fourth International Conference, SaSeIot 2017, Valencia, Spain, November 6-7, 2017, Proceedings, Springer, page 125

(file format) Initialism of concise binary object representation: a binary data serialization format loosely based on JSON.


wikistorming

Blend of wiki + brainstorming or wiki + storming.

Wikistorming brings knowledge from campus libraries and translates it to the Web.

2014, The War on Learning: Gaining Ground in the Digital University, page 232

Working collaboratively and creatively in wikistorming sessions, many writers involved with technology, science and feminism have designed a "shared pedagogical activity" to help contribute to Wikipedia.

2015, Wei Zhang, Cheris Kramarae, “Bold Ideas for Creative Social Networking: An Invitational Discussion”, in Handbook of Research on Digital Media and Creative Technologies

Feb 2016 Wikistorming to raise women artists’ Wikipedia presence with public's help

Dec 2016 Together Apart: FemTechNet and Feminist Online Collectives
Using the concept of “boundary objects,” students participating in FemTechNet have engaged in shared learning projects like “wikistorming,” in which students edit Wikipedia to improve the representation of women and people of color on the site

Two notable assignments were a maker project, in which the students had to build something, and “Wikistorming” in which participants created and revised Wikipedia articles on and about women as well as interrogating the processes and gender bias of Wikipedia editing ("feminist wiki-storming," 2016).

2016, Elizabeth A. Monske, Kristine L. Blair, Handbook of Research on Writing and Composing in the Age of MOOCs

2017, Wikistorming Novel Exercise:

(Internet) A collaborative effort to inject a certain viewpoint (such as a feminist perspective) into a wiki website.


clickworthy

en-adj

clickworthy (comparative more clickworthy, superlative most clickworthy)

more clickworthy (comparative)
most clickworthy (superlative)

From click + -worthy, in reference to clicking a hyperlink etc. with a computer mouse.

(computing, informal) Of a website or similar: worth reading or visiting.


IANAS

(Internet) Initialism of I am not a scientist.


TPU

en-noun

TPU (countable and uncountable, plural TPUs)

The GPU and TPU computing resources were used to investigate the influence of hardware-supported quantization on performance of the DNNs.

2019, “Scaling Analysis of Specialized Tensor Processing Architectures for Deep Learning Models”, in Witold Pedrycz, Shyi-Ming Chen, editors, Deep Learning: Concepts and Architectures, Springer Nature, page 73

Tensor Processing Unit
w:Tensor Processing Unit

(countable, computer hardware) Initialism of Tensor Processing Unit, a circuit optimized for neural network machine learning.


piece table

(computing theory) A data structure consisting of an original document and a series of insertions and deletions referring back to parts of the original or modified document, typically used to represent a series of edit operations on text.


preprint server

preprint server (plural preprint servers)

(Internet, sciences) A website on which preprints are published


page table

(computing) A data structure used by a virtual memory implementation to store the mappings between physical and virtual addresses.


rug-pull

A back-formation from pull the rug out from under.

back-formation

Coordinate term: pump and dump

The anonymous founders of a crypto collective called AnubisDAO raised nearly $60 million in a few hours last year; less than a day later, the funds disappeared in the second-largest rug pull of 2021, according to the blockchain-tracking firm Chainalysis.

2022 March 2, David Yaffe-Bellany, “Millions for Crypto Start-Ups, No Real Names Necessary”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

(cryptocurrencies) A fraud scheme where anonymous founders trick people into investing money for a cryptocurrency project which is then abandoned.


run ahead

en-verb

run ahead (third-person singular simple present runs ahead, present participle running ahead, simple past ran ahead, past participle run ahead)

runs ahead (present singular third-person)
running ahead (participle present)
ran ahead (past)
run ahead (participle past)

(software, transitive) To execute (code) in advance, anticipating a likely upcoming need for the result.


tab out

tab out (third-person singular simple present tabs out, present participle tabbing out, simple past and past participle tabbed out)

tabs out (present singular third-person)
tabbing out (participle present)
tabbed out (participle past)
tabbed out (past)

Let me tab out and check on that for you.

(computing, graphical user interface) To press the Tab key and a modifier key to move between tabs or windows.


content mill

Coordinate term: paper mill

The crux of the hostile narrative was that Demand Media was a “content mill.” An article in Wired magazine actually triggered the drama by comparing Demand Media's system to Henry Ford's production line for cars in the early twentieth century.

2011, Peter Guber, Tell to Win, Profile Books, page 72

Think of the content mill as a modern-day literary sweatshop—writers hunkering down at hot keyboards, plowing away at 3,000 word articles for, literally, pennies. Content mills were born because someone figured out that by targeting popular search result terms, they could commission an army of crappy posts catering to these terms and dominate Google's results.

2015, Zachary Petit, The Essential Guide to Freelance Writing, Penguin

One night in early 2019, Magana and Alvarado went to a party at a gaudy, largely unfurnished Los Angeles mansion, the sort of place rented by packs of influencers to use as content mills.

2023 October 19, Brendan I. Koerner, “Watch This Guy Work, and You’ll Finally Understand the TikTok Era”, in Wired, →ISSN

(Internet, authorship) Synonym of content farm


IASP

(computing) Initialism of independent auxiliary storage pool.


function pointer

en-noun

function pointer (plural function pointers)

(computing) a pointer that points to a function


rug pull

en-verb

rug pull (third-person singular simple present rug pulls, present participle rug pulling, simple past and past participle rug pulled)

rug pulls (present singular third-person)
rug pulling (participle present)
rug pulled (participle past)
rug pulled (past)

To prevent rugging, projects have implemented measures to commit liquidity through locking contracts and token burn related to liquidity pools. DeFi100 coin creators have rug pulled close to USD 32 million. SushiSwap has also suffered[…]

2021 August 31, Rajesh Dhuddu, Srinivas Mahankali, Blockchain A to Z Explained: Become a Blockchain Pro with 400+ Terms (English Edition), BPB Publications

For that reason, you need to do your research before deciding on a cryptocurrency to yield farm. ... former Google engineers with visible faces and active Twitter accounts, it is unlikely that you will be “rug pulled” by that project.

2022 May 10, Robert Ross, A Beginner's Guide to High-Risk, High-Reward Investing: From Cryptocurrencies and Short Selling to SPACs and NFTs, an Essential Guide to the Next Big Investment, Simon and Schuster, page 244

“Until the crypto market had a drop and some of the bigger exchanges cratered,” he explained. “People got nervous and wanted their money out of crypto. It should have been no big deal to ... “And then you got rug pulled?” I guessed.

2022 December 14, Roxie Rivera, When The Westons Went To Moscow, Night Works Books

(cryptocurrencies) to carry out a rug-pull


geolocked

As Amazon UK is a geolocked store, there is no problem with offering your ebook at a lower price compared to the US Kindle Store, as only UK buyers can purchase ebooks from Kindle UK.

2016, Derek Haines, How To Self-Publish a Book

(computing) restricted to a specific geographical region


Genny

(video games, slang) A Sega Genesis video game console.


disjoint set

(computer science) A data structure used to store such sets and perform operations on them efficiently.


toolstack

information technology
information technology

(computing) A collection of software tools to work on different parts of a related system, often used on information technology infrastructure management.


paravirtualize

paravirtualize (third-person singular simple present paravirtualizes, present participle paravirtualizing, simple past and past participle paravirtualized)

paravirtualizes (present singular third-person)
paravirtualizing (participle present)
paravirtualized (participle past)
paravirtualized (past)

(computing) To modify an operating system or software driver to allow paravirtualization.


rvv

Vandalism patrolling, though formally neither a project nor a process, is some of the most important ongoing work on ... you are reverting to make sure you're only undoing vandalism, and then add an edit summary: rvv vandalism is common.

2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, How Wikipedia Works: And how You Can be a Part of it, No Starch Press, page 209

The consequences of reverting a good-faith edit with a vandalism-reversion tool or "rvv" edit summary are unpredictable, and unlikely to win you friends or trust.

2008, PaulHammond, “The Laws of Unintended Consequences”, in talk.religion.bahai (Usenet), retrieved 2018-08-12

If so, you need only to put rvv (which stands for revert vandalism) in the edit summary.

2008, John Broughton, Wikipedia: The Missing Manual: The Missing Manual, "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", page 95

For each revision, we analyse its comment for keywords of “vandal” and “rvv” (revert due to vandalism), indicating the occurrence of ...

2013, Jian Pei, Vincent S. Tseng, Longbing Cao, Hiroshi Motoda, Guandong Xu, Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: 17th Pacific-Asia Conference, PAKDD 2013, Gold Coast, Australia, April 14-17, 2013, Proceedings, Springer, page 271

In such cases, the edit summaries may merely record 'revert', 'rv' or 'rvv'.

2016, Dan O'Sullivan, Wikipedia: A New Community of Practice?, Routledge, page 141

(wiki jargon, chiefly Wikimedia jargon, informal) Initialism of revert vandalism; used in edit summaries to indicate that the editor has reverted another user's vandalism of a page.

wiki jargon; chiefly Wikimedia jargon; wiki jargon; chiefly Wikimedia jargon


hillshade

(computer graphics) A graphical representation of a surface as if illuminated from one side


keyword stuffing

(SEO) The act of filling a website with keywords in the attempt to boost the website's position in online search rankings.


checksummer

(computing) An algorithm that computes a checksum.


gap buffer

(programming) A dynamic array that allows efficient insertion and deletion operations clustered near the same location.


review bomb

The phenomenon of Review Bomb can be seen as a particular case of spam attack where users publish, in a short time span, fake or misleading reviews on specific products, brands or services, with the aim of discrediting or promoting these.

2022, Oscar Bernardes, Vanessa Amorim, António Carrizo Moreira, editors, Handbook of Research on Cross-Disciplinary Uses of Gamification in Organizations, IGI Global, page 340

(Internet) A deluge of negative user reviews.


review bomb

review bomb (third-person singular simple present review bombs, present participle review bombing, simple past and past participle review bombed)

review bombs (present singular third-person)
review bombing (participle present)
review bombed (participle past)
review bombed (past)

For one well-known example, the 2016 remake of Ghostbusters was massively review bombed before the film had even been released, with a good part of the downvoting coming from men who objected to the remake's all-female cast.

2021, Donald A. Barclay, chapter 4, in Disinformation: The Nature of Facts and Lies in the Post-truth Era, Rowman & Littlefield, page 110

Lincoln Michel, the author of the sci-fi novel “The Body Scout,” said he fears his books might get review bombed if he tangles with people online.

2023 June 26, Alexandra Alter, Elizabeth A. Harris, “How Review-Bombing Can Tank a Book Before It’s Published”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

(Internet) To give something a deluge of negative user reviews.


runlength

(computing) The length of a sequence of repeated characters in a string


reply girl

(Internet, historical) A young woman who published video responses to popular YouTube videos, often wearing suggestive clothing, in order to exploit the site's algorithms and receive large amounts of traffic.


360 noscope

I totally owned that noob with a 360 noscope.

(video games, slang) A kill with a sniper rifle performed without scoping in after doing a 360-degree turn, often but not always while jumping down from a height.


360 noscope

360 noscope (third-person singular simple present 360 noscopes, present participle 360 noscoping, simple past and past participle 360 noscoped)

360 noscopes (present singular third-person)
360 noscoping (participle present)
360 noscoped (participle past)
360 noscoped (past)

I 360 noscoped on some noob.

(video games, slang) To perform a 360 noscope.


battle royale

en-noun

battle royale (plural battles royale or battle royales)

battles royale (plural)
battle royales (plural)

/ˌbætl̩ ɹɔɪˈæl/

The video game usage derives from the 2000 film Battle Royale, which has a similar premise to the video game genre.

(video games) A video game genre centered around survival, exploration and scavenging, with last-man-standing gameplay.


stealth game

(video games) A type of video game in which the player primarily uses stealth to avoid or overcome antagonists.


tab order

(graphical user interface) The sequence in which a user can navigate from one control to the next by pressing the Tab key.


TTFB

(Internet) Initialism of time to first byte: the time that elapses between the client making an HTTP request and receiving the first byte of the response.


Civ

Ци́ва

the Civilization games, or one of the games in this series

If you have played Civ before then, you already know what I am talking about. If you haven't, then what are you waiting for?

1997, Rick Barba, Michael Knight, Rod Harten, CD-ROM Classics: Cheats and Hints to Your Favorite Games, volume 2

I'd worked almost exclusively on the Wizardry series, so I knew everything about it like the back of my hand. So when I played Civ, I became fascinated with how it did that.

2008, Tracy Fullerton, Game Design Workshop

(video games, slang) Civilization, a turn-based strategy video game from 1991 (and various sequels) in which the player attempts to build and maintain an empire throughout history.

(video games, slang) a civilization, any of various playable empires controlled by a player in the Civilization games.


metadataset

(computing) A data set composed of metadata.


collectathon

Rare would go on to produce several 3D platformers in this mould: Donkey Kong 64 (1999) was an absolute collectathon notable for an appalling opening rap and the ability to play as five very different characters […]

2015, Rich Stanton, A Brief History Of Video Games: From Atari to Virtual Reality, page 202

As if this wasn't already becoming one of the most tedious collectathons ever, the game only bothers to track the total number of Zygarde Cells and Cores you've collected, which you can check by using the Zygarde Cube item from your bag.

2016, Gamer Guides, Pokémon Sun & Moon - Strategy Guide


death barrier

(video games) A (usually invisible) plane that causes the player character to die if touched or passed through.


monorepo

From mono- + repo or a blend of monolithic + repo.

As with central deployments, we can look into two different scenarios here too: either using a monorepo as a code base or starting with individual repositories to have dedicated pipelines.

2021, Florian Rappl, The Art of Micro Frontends, Packt Publishing Ltd, page 40

(software engineering) A monolithic repository, where core code and its dependencies are included in the same repository.


electronic data interchange

electronic data interchange (uncountable)

(computing) The electronic exchange of structured information, by agreed message standards, from one application to another with a minimum of human intervention.


hashflag

Blend of hashtag + flag, coined during the 2010 FIFA World Cup by Twitter when national flags were added to the end of three-character national abbreviation hashtags (e.g., #rsa or #jpn)

After posting a tweet about Wombat Strike Six, an upcoming videogame she was excited about, Monique noticed that the hashtag #wombatrevenge had an associated hashflag depicting a small, furious wombat.

Hashflags also don't last forever: Twitter turns them off, when the hashtag stops trending, I guess.

2015 September 28, Alissa Walker, “Twitter's Hashflags Are an Abomination, and They Must Be Stopped”, in Gizmodo, archived from the original on 2018-02-14

While some hashtags are so specific as to render unlikely the chance that a hashflag will appear out of context (e.g., #turkishairlinesopen2017), there are numerous examples of hashflags being attached to hashtags with multiple meanings and applications.

2018, Tim Highfield, “Emoji hashtags // hashtag emoji: Of platforms, visual affect, and discursive flexibility”, in First Monday, volume 23, number 9, →DOI

Despite the record-breaking number of #MahsaAmini tweets, the hashtag remains flagless. Hashflags are custom emojis specific to Twitter that help boost a particular hashtag on the platform and draw attention to a movement. By introducing a hashflag, Twitter would also make it less likely that misleadingly similar hashtags for #MahsaAmini will divert attention.

2022 September 30, Mahsa Alimardani, Kendra Albert, Afsaneh Rigot, “Big Tech Should Support the Iranian People, Not the Regime”, in The New York Times

(Internet) A non-Unicode pictogram, similar to an emoji, automatically appended to a trending and often branded hashtag in a tweet.


clip font

A non-Unicode Indic-script font that composes characters using fixed components as opposed to using complex text layout algorithms.


PC bang

From Korean PC방 (pisi-bang, literally “PC room”). First attested in 1999.

bor

In South Korea, mobile phones have created a new population called transyouths who connect to each other through screens and PC bangs (J.H-j. Choi, 2010).

2021, Micky Lee, Peichi Chung, Media Technologies for Work and Play in East Asia, page 23

(South Korea) A public internet cafe where people can meet to play multiplayer computer games for a fee.


ODR

One Definition Rule
w:One Definition Rule

(programming, C++) Initialism of One Definition Rule.


barcade

Blend of bar + arcade. A chain of arcade bars by this name first opened in Brooklyn in 2004.

Glen “Hooping Cough” Hodges is proprietor and manager of Nine Chakras, the new retro gaming barcade in town.

2019, Darren Johnson, Darren Johnson's Best Short Stories of 2018

For a good time in the evening, hit up a barcade, a nightspot that's puntastically exactly what it sounds like — a bar with a ton of old-school coin-operated pinball and arcade cabinets (I'd bet my quarters there's one near you).

2020, Sam Maggs, The Fangirl's Guide to the Universe: A Handbook for Girl Geeks, page 42

Gaming itself becomes a destination event, taking place at barcades and board game cafes.

2020, Terri Toles Patkin, Matthew Wilhelm Kapell, Who's in the Game?, page 27

A bar (drinking establishment) equipped with video arcade games.


optimize out

en-verb

optimize out (third-person singular simple present optimizes out, present participle optimizing out, simple past and past participle optimized out)

optimizes out (present singular third-person)
optimizing out (participle present)
optimized out (participle past)
optimized out (past)

The loop that counts from 1 to 1,000,000 is optimized out by the compiler, because nothing happens inside the loop and the value is not used afterwards.

(transitive, programming) To omit (some portion of program logic) through optimization, when it is found to be unused or unnecessary.


pessimization

en-noun

pessimization (countable and uncountable, plural pessimizations)

(programming) A change to program code that makes it less efficient, the opposite of an optimization.


cofunctionality

(mathematics, computing) The condition of being a cofunction


directed acyclic graph

directed acyclic graph (plural directed acyclic graphs)

1995, Volker Turan, Weimin Chen, GLB-closures in Directed Acyclic Graphs and Their Applications, Ernst W. Mayr, Gunther Schmidt, Gottfried Tinhofer (editors), Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science: 20th International Workshop, Proceedings, Springer, LNCS 903, page 121,
A subset S of the vertices of a directed acyclic graph is called glb-closed, if it contains the greatest lower bounds of all pairs of vertices of S. […] Directed acyclic graphs are widely used in different areas of computer science.

In studying these properties, a distinction is made between directed acyclic graphs with directed edges and simple acyclic graphs with undirected edges.[…]A directed acyclic graph G#x3D;(V#x3B;R) is asymmetric and does not contain cycles.

2001, Peter J. Pahl, Rudolf Damrath, Mathematical Foundations of Computational Engineering: A Handbook, Springer, page 574

2011, Michael Donders, Sara Miner More, Pavel Naumov, Information Flow on Directed Acyclic Graphs, Lev D. Beklemishev, Ruy de Queiroz (editors), Logic, Language, Information, and Computation: 18th International Workshop, Proceedings, Springer, LNAI 6642, page 95,
A logical system that describes the properties of this relation for an arbitrary fixed directed acyclic graph is introduced and proven to be complete and decidable.

(graph theory, computer science) A finite directed graph that contains no directed cycles.


clearnet

The normal Internet, as opposed to the darknet or Tor-web


acyclic digraph

acyclic digraph (plural acyclic digraphs)

1993, Suh-Ryung-Kim, The Competition Number and Its Variants, J. Gimbel, J.W. Kennedy, L.V. Quintas (editors), Quo Vadis, Graph Theory?: A Source Book for Challenges and Directions, Elsevier (North-Holland), page 313,
In the study of the competition graph of an acyclic digraph, there are two fundamental questions which were proposed by Roberts in 1978: One is to characterize the acyclic digraphs that have interval competition graphs and the other is to characterize the graphs which are competition graphs of acyclic digraphs.

2009, Tamara Mchedlidze, Antonios Symvonis, Crossing-Optimal Acyclic HP-Completion for Outerplanar st-Digraphs, Hung Q. Ngo (editor), Computing and Combinatorics: 15th Annual International Conference, Proceedings, Springer, LNCS 5609, page 76,
Determining whether a graph has a hamiltonian path or circuit is NP-complete [3]. The problem remains NP-complete for cubic planar graphs [3], for maximal planar graphs [9], and for planar digraphs [3]. It can be trivially solved in polynomial time for planar acyclic digraphs.

2018, Gregory Gutin, 3. Acyclic Digraphs, Jørgen Bang-Jensen, Gregory Gutin, Classes of Directed Graphs, Springer, page 125,
Acyclic digraphs form a well-studied family of digraphs of great interest in graph theory, algorithms and applications.

directed acyclic graph
directed acyclic graph

(graph theory, computer science) A directed acyclic graph, a finite directed graph that contains no directed cycles.


distributed hash table

distributed hash table (plural distributed hash tables)

1992, Nobuyuki Ichiyoshi, Konighi Komura, Asymptotic Load Balance of Distributed Hash Tables, Institute for New Generation Computer Technology staff (editors), FGCS '92: Fifth Generation Computer Systems 1992, Volume 2, IOS Press, page 869,
The distributed hash table is a parallelization of the hash table obtained by dividing the table into subtables of equal size and allocating them to the processors. […] We also discuss communication overheads, and find that, in the case of mesh multicomputers, unless the network channel bandwidth grows sufficiently as p grows, the network will eventually become a performance bottleneck for distributed hash tables.

2006, Theoni Pitoura, Nikos Ntarmos, Peter Triantafillou, Replication, Load Balancing and Efficient Range Query Processing in DHTs, Yannis Ioannidis, Marc H. Scholl, et al. (editors), Advances in Database Technology - EDBT 2006: 10th International Conference, Proceedings, Springer, LNCS 3896, page 131,
We consider the conflicting problems of ensuring data-access load balancing and efficiently processing range queries on peer-to-peer data networks maintained over Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs).

2008, Zoi Kaoudi, Iris Miliarski, Manolis Koubarakis, RDFS Reasoning and Query Answering on Top of DHTs, Amit Sheth, Steffen Staab, Mike Dean, Massimo Paolucci, Diana Maynard, Timothy Finin, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan (editors), The Semantic Web - ISWC 2008: 7th International Semantic Web Conference, Proceedings, Springer, LNCS 5318, page 499,
We study the problem of distributed RDFS reasoning and query answering on top of distributed hash tables. […] Our goal in this paper is to compare and evaluate two well-known approaches to RFDS reasoning, namely backward and forward chaining, on top of distributed hash tables. We show how to implement both algorithms on top of the distributed hash table Bamboo and prove their correctness.

(computer science) A decentralised distributed system that performs the functions of a hash table.


sysape

(computing, slang, derogatory) An incompetent sysop.


helplessdesk

(computing, slang, derogatory) An incompetent helpdesk.


Baidu

From Mandarin 百度 (Bǎidù, literally “hundreds of times”).

zh-l

Most of us spend a lot of time using search engines. And the ones we summon most often are Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft Bing, at least in the United States. If you're in China, chances are you search using Baidu.

2014, Edward C. Baig, Bob LeVitus, iPad mini For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, page 80

(Internet) A search engine that popularized the company of the same name.


Baidu

en-verb

Baidu (third-person singular simple present Baidus, present participle Baiduing, simple past and past participle Baidued)

Baidus (present singular third-person)
Baiduing (participle present)
Baidued (participle past)
Baidued (past)

To ground my assumption in facts, I “googled” and “baidued” the major Baidu events in 2008 and 2009.

2011, Xiaoli Li, 期待ing: From Globalization to Glocalization (dissertation), Clemson University, page 105

This generally involves students reading the text for the main idea of the text, consulting print dictionary or online dictionary or Googling /Baiduing (one of the most popular searching engine in China) for difficult words, phrases, expression and sentence structure and figure out how they should be used properly if they can’t find satisfying answers from their print dictionaries.

2012, Chen Yan, Jiang Yuhong, “Integration of ICTs into subject teaching in pre-service English teacher education”, in 2012 International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET), IEEE, →DOI

P.S, did some baiduing, found your cool dictator book

2014 July 11, fjrp2, “Car destroyed by ukrainian artillery.”, in alt.politics.international (Usenet)

From May 6, 2014 I read online English news by Googling news of “Alibaba IPO.” Simultaneously, I read online Chinese news by Baiduing news of “Alibaba IPO.”

2016, Shuwen Li, Ethos as Dwelling: The Construction of Corporate Ethos in an IPO (dissertation), University of Minnesota, page 61

When I baidued the keywords “剩女/leftover women” and “新华网/Xinhua.net,” a website sponsored by the Chinese government on June 11, 2019, at 11:30a.m., I found numerous reports on the leftover women on the Xinhua net.

2019, Wenjing Liu, The Implications of Science and Technology for Chinese Women (dissertation), Michigan Technological University, →DOI, pages 108–109

(uncommon, transitive) To search for (something) on the Internet using the Baidu search engine.


georeplication

(computing) georemote replication of data


TTI

(Internet) Initialism of time to interact: the time that elapses before the client can interact with a web page that is loading


ROMable

Let's C does support ROMable code and can be linked with PL/M and compatible languages via an "alien" function type.

It produces ROMable code which can be loaded directly into target systems via Intel ICE emulators.

1990, 16-/32-bit embedded processor handbook, pages 2–19

(programming) Able to execute from read-only memory.


Robertson-Seymour theorem

the Robertson-Seymour theorem (canonical)

Named after mathematicians Neil Robertson and Paul D. Seymour, who proved it in a series of papers from 1983 to 2004.

(graph theory) A theorem stating that the undirected graphs, partially ordered by the graph-minor relationship, form a well-quasi-ordering.


demofreak

(demoscene slang) A demoscene enthusiast.


navigation bar

(graphical user interface) A bar at the top of a graphical user interface containing links that allow users to move around the page and/or program


sequence point

(programming) Any point during a computer program's execution at which it is guaranteed that all side effects of previous evaluations will have been performed, and no side effects from subsequent evaluations have yet been performed.


e-moderation

(Internet) The moderation of discussions that take place online.


Rustacean

/ɹʌsˈteɪʃən/

New Rustaceans commonly get stuck on strings for a combination of three reasons: […]

2019, Steve Klabnik, Carol Nichols, The Rust Programming Language, page 137

We covered a whole lot of ground here in a subject that's probably the heaviest to grasp for a new Rustacean.

2019, Rahul Sharma, Vesa Kaihlavirta, Mastering Rust, page 210

You'll find that the Rust community loves to track the progress of a certain area using their “Are We X Yet” sites. This is a tradition from the Mozilla community, which many Rustaceans are also involved in.

2020, Shing Lyu, Practical Rust Projects, page 154

(programming, informal) A user of the Rust programming language.


retpoline

(programming, neologism) A code construct that uses return operations to prevent speculative execution.


DNSBL

Domain Name System
Domain Name System#English

(Internet) Initialism of Domain Name System-based blackhole list.


LCG

linear congruential generator
linear congruential generator#English

(computing theory) Initialism of linear congruential generator.


single-serving site

en-noun

single-serving site (plural single-serving sites)

Coined by blogger Jason Kottke in February 2008.

(Internet) A simple website consisting of a single page, with a dedicated domain name, that does only one thing.


Savitch's theorem

(computing theory) A theorem giving a relationship between deterministic and non-deterministic space complexity.


newsboard

newsboard (countable and uncountable, plural newsboards)

(countable, Internet) An online discussion forum.


TNEF

w:Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format

(Internet) Initialism of Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format.


BDUF

Big Design Up Front
w:Big Design Up Front

(software engineering) Initialism of Big Design Up Front.


PPD

PPD (countable and uncountable, plural PPDs)

pixels per degree
pixels per degree#English

(computing) Initialism of pixels per degree (“a measurement of the visual fidelity of a virtual reality headset”).


tree shaking

(programming) In JavaScript, automatic dead code elimination during the build.


peepholing

peephole optimization
peephole optimization

(programming) The use of peephole optimization.


unarchiver

(computing) A program or algorithm that unarchives.


pub-sub

publish–subscribe pattern
w:publish–subscribe pattern

(software engineering) Abbreviation of publish–subscribe pattern.


cyberprodigy

(computing, rare) Person who has an extraordinary talent for using computers.


cybertaxonomy

cybertaxonomy (countable and uncountable, plural cybertaxonomies)

(computing, taxonomy) computerised taxonomy


SBCS

single-byte character set
w:single-byte character set

(computing) Initialism of single-byte character set.


FOUT

Coordinate term: FOIT

(web development) Initialism of flash of unstyled text: a brief glimpse of text in the default font before the correct font has loaded.


SCSU

w:Standard Compression Scheme for Unicode

(computing) Initialism of Standard Compression Scheme for Unicode.


PSN

PlayStation Network
w:PlayStation Network

(video games) Initialism of PlayStation Network.


XBLA

(video games) Initialism of Xbox Live Arcade.


break the Internet

en-verb

break the Internet (third-person singular simple present breaks the Internet, present participle breaking the Internet, simple past broke the Internet, past participle broken the Internet)

breaks the Internet (present singular third-person)
breaking the Internet (participle present)
broke the Internet (past)
broken the Internet (participle past)

Early use of the phrase (circa the mid-1990s) refers to literally breaking the Internet connection of a single device. It also refers to breaking the World Wide Web or the Internet itself, with the implication that it would be impossible or implausible to do so in most ordinary contexts.
A figurative usage of the phrase emerged in the early 2000s. Rather than the Internet or an Internet connection literally breaking, the figurative meaning describes a web server becoming overwhelmed by a surge in organic, non-malicious web traffic. It can also describe a deliberate, malicious attempt to overwhelm a web server, as in a denial-of-service attack or other cyberattack.
In the early 2010s, "break the internet" developed a secondary figurative usage in Internet slang. Similar to "going viral", the slang usage refers to behavior that causes a dramatic increase in web traffic or social media commentary, especially when the behavior was ostentatious or controversial. The phrase was famously used on the November 2014 issue of Paper magazine, titled "Break the Internet" and featuring American celebrity Kim Kardashian on the cover. The magazine was not the first to use the phrase in this sense, but it did popularize it.

“Well furnished Dahlings, don't all rush on at once as you might break the internet, but The Conran Shop has a new website!”

2001 Time Out (cited in 2016 Merriam-Webster.com, "Words We're Watching: Break the Internet")

(computing, idiomatic, figuratively, humorous) To overwhelm a web server through organic user-driven demand, such that the server goes offline or is in danger of doing so.

(computing, idiomatic, figuratively) To deliberately overwhelm a web server through a cyberattack such as a DDOS, such that the server goes offline or is in danger of doing so.


FIDO

Fast IDentity Online (Alliance)
w:FIDO Alliance

(computer security) Initialism of Fast IDentity Online (Alliance), an industry association launched to develop and promote authentication standards.


setmark

(computing) A special value used on computer tape to separate sets of files.


filemark

(computing) A special value used on computer tape to separate individual files.


technical debt

en-noun

technical debt (countable and uncountable, plural technical debts)

An important attribute of technical debt is that it grows in an unpredictable, nonlinear fashion. Each bit of technical debt, when added to the pool of existing technical debt, might do significantly more harm than the size of that new debt might imply.

2012, Kenneth S. Rubin, Essential Scrum, Addison-Wesley, page 142

software engineering
software engineering

(software engineering) The implied cost of additional future work caused by choosing an easy but inferior solution originally.


post-PC

[Tim] Cook devoted the beginning of the event to talking about Apple's vision of a "post-PC" world, one in which your primary computer doesn't have a mouse or a keyboard. This chart shows the success of that vision. And this is just the beginning.

2012 March 7, Alexis C. Madrigal, “The Single Chart That Proves Tim Cook Is Right About the Post-PC World”, in The Atlantic

(computing) After the decline of the personal computer in favour of mobile devices.


UDRP

w:Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy

(Internet) Initialism of Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy.


unlisten

en-verb

unlisten (third-person singular simple present unlistens, present participle unlistening, simple past and past participle unlistened)

unlistens (present singular third-person)
unlistening (participle present)
unlistened (participle past)
unlistened (past)

(computing) To cease to listen for incoming signals.


untalk

untalk (third-person singular simple present untalks, present participle untalking, simple past and past participle untalked)

untalks (present singular third-person)
untalking (participle present)
untalked (participle past)
untalked (past)

(computing) To cease to transmit signals.


unedit

unedit (third-person singular simple present unedits, present participle unediting, simple past and past participle unedited)

unedits (present singular third-person)
unediting (participle present)
unedited (participle past)
unedited (past)

(computing, transitive) To release a file that was being edited, without saving any changes that were made.


ASLR

ASLR slide

Likewise, iOS 4.3 is the first version of iOS to introduce ASLR in user space. For Apple, doing so in iOS is even more important, as code injection is the underlying technique behind jailbreaking the various i-Devices.

2013, Jonathan Levin, chapter 4, in Mac OS X and iOS Internals, John Wiley & Sons, page 132

address space layout randomization
w:address space layout randomization

(computer security) Initialism of address space layout randomization.


Chinese postman problem

en-noun

Chinese postman problem (plural Chinese postman problems)

Originally studied by the Chinese mathematician Kwan Mei-Ko in 1960, whose Chinese paper was translated into English in 1962. The name "Chinese postman problem" was coined in his honour, and is varyingly ascribed to Alan J. Goldman or Jack Edmonds, both of the US National Bureau of Standards.

(graph theory) The problem of finding the shortest closed path or circuit that visits every edge of a (connected) undirected graph.


Wikia

The information found on a wikia is often the most comprehensive and de facto source of fan-authored content around a topic.

2014, Brandon Rhea, Wikia: So Much More Than a Wiki

Because editorial links between Wikipedia and the Wikias are quite rare, we attempt to connect more strongly the Wikia collections in our study to Wikipedia by employing NEMO, a state-of-the-art Wikipedia-based EDL system.

2017, Joemon M Jose, Claudia Hauff, Ismail Sengor Altıngovde, Advances in Information Retrieval: 39th European Conference

The battle between the two sub‐fandoms led to some actions within the Wikia, and the change in “the collaborative authorship” (Booth 2010, 92) of the platform. But the Wikia is also and above all a symbol of how well organized the fandom is, […]

2018, Paul Booth, A Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies, page 393

(Internet) A wiki hosted on the wiki farm Wikia.


IDEF

Initialisms. The software-engineering term originally stood for ICAM definition but was given the new expansion integration definition in 1999.

(software engineering) A family of modelling languages in the field of systems and software engineering.


unmigrate

en-verb

unmigrate (third-person singular simple present unmigrates, present participle unmigrating, simple past and past participle unmigrated)

unmigrates (present singular third-person)
unmigrating (participle present)
unmigrated (participle past)
unmigrated (past)

I could “unmigrate” the tapes, and that would take a while, but it wasn't that much of a nuisance and it helped keep the mainframe's disks free.

2011, Mark Minasi, Rhonda Layfield, John Paul Mueller, Mastering Windows Server 2008 Networking Foundations, page 6-168

(computing, rare) To reverse the process of migration; to switch back to an older system.


FAANG

en-noun

FAANG (countable and uncountable, plural FAANGs)

(technology) One or more of the technology companies Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google.


FANG

The FANG stocks (Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google) today are leading the charge, and many of them boast P/Es in the hundreds!

2017, Young Kim, chapter 3, in Surviving the Buy Now, Pay Never Society, Lulu Press, Inc

(economics) Four large technology companies, or (metonymically) their stock: Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google.


subvariable

(computing) A variable that controls an inner loop


metric-compatible

en-adj

metric-compatible (comparative more metric-compatible, superlative most metric-compatible)

more metric-compatible (comparative)
most metric-compatible (superlative)

(typography, computing) Of a font, having identical metrics as another font, enabling it to serve as a substitute for another font without affecting document layout.


greedy property

It has the greedy property (difficult to prove in time-critical contest environment!). If we make a choice that seems like the best at the moment and proceed to solve the remaining subproblem, we reach the optimal solution. We will never have to reconsider our previous choices.

2013, Steven Halim, Felix Halim, Competitive Programming 3: The New Lower Bound of Programming Contests., page 89

Developing efficient algorithms for computing shortest paths in a time varying spatial network is challenging because these journeys do not always display greedy property or optimal substructure, making techniques like dynamic programming inapplicable.

2012, Betsy George, Sangho Kim, Spatio-temporal Networks: Modeling and Algorithms (SpringerBriefs in Computer Science), Springer Science & Business Media, page 25

(computer science) The property of being globally solvable optimally by making optimal decisions locally.


dynamic programming

Coined by American mathematician Richard E. Bellman in the 1940s.

coinage

The advantage of dynamic programming as a procedure for solving optimization problems is the simplification obtained by decomposition.

1975, Sven Danø, Nonlinear and Dynamic Programming: An Introduction, Springer Science & Business Media, page 73

Dynamic programming, developed by Richard Bellmann, is a powerful method for solving optimization problems. It has the attractive feature of breaking up a complex optimization problem into a number of simpler problems.

2000, Rein Luus, “Preface”, in Iterative Dynamic Programming, CRC Press

optimal substructure
optimal substructure

(mathematics, computer science) An optimization method by which a problem having optimal substructure is recursively broken into simpler subproblems which are solved to produce the globally optimal solution.


memory cartridge

en-noun

memory cartridge (plural memory cartridges)

An electronic flash memory data storage device commonly used in portable electronic devices.


artillery game

(video games) A style of turn-based video game where players control tanks or warriors scattered over varied terrain.


BTS

(software) Initialism of bug tracking system.


hash buster

(computing) A program or algorithm that randomly adds characters to data in order to change its hash sum, typically to get around spam filters.


succ

You can follow the pointer to see that we got it right, so that each succ and prev points to the right god.

2014, Bjarne Stroustrup, Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++, page 614

(chiefly programming) Abbreviation of successor.


viewlet

content management system
content management system

(computing) In certain content management systems, a region of a page where customizable content can be rendered.


portal rendering

(computer graphics) An algorithm for determining the visibility of objects in a three-dimensional world, based on partitioning the space into polygonal, generally convex regions that can be used to form generalizations about the visibility of objects within those regions.


thenable

(programming) An object or function that exposes a then method returning a promise.


Hopfield network

Hopfield network (plural Hopfield networks)

Popularised by John Hopfield in 1982 (but described earlier by Little in 1974).

A kind of recurrent artificial neural network, providing a model for understanding human memory.