kernelize

en-verb

kernelize (third-person singular simple present kernelizes, present participle kernelizing, simple past and past participle kernelized)

kernelizes (present singular third-person)
kernelizing (participle present)
kernelized (participle past)
kernelized (past)

(computing) To produce, or to undergo kernelization


data lake

Coined by Pentaho CEO James Dixon in 2010.

coin

Data Lake? Cute! RT @mattcasters: Great intro to Pentaho Hadoop int. by Will @wpgorman "Battlebricks" Gorman : http://vimeo.com/14641559

2010 September 21, Jos van Dongen, Twitter

Based on the requirements above and the problems of the traditional solutions we have created a concept called the Data Lake to describe an optimal solution. If you think of a datamart as a store of bottled water – cleansed and packaged and structured for easy consumption – the data lake is a large body of water in a more natural state. The contents of the data lake stream in from a source to fill the lake, and various users of the lake can come to examine, dive in, or take samples.

2010 October 14, James Dixon, “Pentaho, Hadoop, and Data Lakes”, in James Dixon’s Blog

Perhaps the most transformative aspect of an analytics architecture that incorporates a data lake is that users do not need to have the possible answers in mind when they ask the questions.

2013, Juergen Klenk, Yugal Sharma, Jeni Fan, “Saving Lives with Big Data: Unlocking the Hidden Potential in Electronic Health Records”, in Jay Liebowitz, editor, Big Data and Business Analytics, CRC Press, page 122

The difference between a data lake and a data warehouse is that in a data warehouse, the data is pre-categorized at the point of entry, which can dictate how it’s going to be analyzed.

2013, Soumendra Mohanty, Madhu Jagadeesh, Harsha Srivatsa, Big Data Imperatives […], Apress, page 43

The data lake, in turn, supports a two-step process to analyze the data.

2014, Pethuru Raj, Ganesh Chandra Deka, editors, Handbook of Research on Cloud Infrastructures for Big Data Analytics, IGI Global, page 105

One phrase in particular has become popular for describing the massing of data into Hadoop, the “Data Lake”, and indeed, this term has been adopted by Pivotal for their enterprise big data strategy.

2014 January 14, Edd Dumbill, “The Data Lake Dream”, in Forbes

A massive, easily accessible data repository built on inexpensive computer hardware for storing big data.


byte order mark

en-noun

byte order mark (plural byte order marks)

tavujärjestysmerkki

character indicating endianness of a string of text

(computing) A character indicating the endianness of a string of text.

(especially) The Unicode character U+FEFF ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE.


zombied

A process that is unable to continue executing and cannot exit the system is zombied. A zombied process does not use any system resources but it still maintains an entry in the process table.

2004, Cameron Hughes, Tracey Hughes, Parallel and Distributed Programming Using C++, page 46

In this manner, the victim may be able to discover the one or many zombied systems that are causing the DoS attack but probably won't be able to track down the actual attacker.

2011, James M. Stewart, CompTIA Security+ Review Guide: Exam SY0-301, page 133

(computing) In a zombie state (said either of a zombie process or of a computer covertly controlled by malware).


dogecoin

dogecoin (countable and uncountable, plural dogecoins)

/ˈdəʊd͡ʒkɔɪn/

The success of ransomware could be attributed to wide adoption of digital currencies or crypto currencies, such as bitcoin, litecoin ukash, dogecoin, ripple and monero, among others.

2017 August 19, Roderick Abad, “Slow Internet speed helping PHL fend off cyber felons”, in Business Mirror

The net worth of Markus and Palmer is unknown due to their tendency to stay off social media and online platforms. However, dogecoin was estimated to be worth almost $17billion as of April 14, 2021.

2021 April 16, Jacob Bentley-York, “Who are Dogecoin founders Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer?”, in The US Sun, retrieved 2021-04-28

(uncountable, cryptocurrencies) A cryptocurrency featuring the Shiba Inu from the "doge" meme as its logo.


ROTT

(video games) Initialism of Rise of the Triad.


pushwall

With either Wolf (the full-blown 60 level version) or Spear of Destiny, Many times the pushwalls move too far, and block the goodies. For example, Episode six, floor two - the first pushwall moves too far, and blocks *all* the other pushwalls, and *all* of the treasure.

1993, No parking EXCEPT FOR BOB, “Wolf-3D & Spear: a bug in common?”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action (Usenet)

Useful any time you've got 99% of the points and you don't want to hunt all over the place for that one little piece of gold you missed, or for when you don't want to mess with a dozen pushwalls to finish the level after you've whacked everybody.

1994, Bob Fishell, “Re: Any Blake Stone cheat codes?”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action (Usenet)

In the shareware-version, first room, there is a small secret room on the same side you startet. Inside is another pushwall and then a door. How can I open this door ? It always tells me that this door is locked. I've got the same problem with some other pushwalls, but this one in the first level is my biggest problem so far.

1995, Henning W. Rauth, “ROTT - help needed”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action (Usenet)

(video games) A wall that moves or triggers some other action when the player character pushes against it.


let's play

Originates from the titles of forum threads on the website Something Awful.

(Internet, video games) A video recording or comparable broadcast in which a person plays a video game while commenting on the gameplay.

Let's Play (video gaming)
Something Awful


firehose cursor

firehose cursor (plural firehose cursors)

(computing, databases, dated) A cursor that permits fast enumeration of rows but can only move forward.


aforelinked

If you'd read the aforelinked article, you wouldn't need to ask that question.

I don't think you noticed that the aforelinked page isn't at CNN.com. The real page (with the correct photo) is at: ¶ http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/03/18/obit.mccambridge.ap/index.html

2004 March 19, jayembee, “Actress that played "Harmony" on Buffy & Angel passes away”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet)

According to the aforelinked Reuters news story: […]

2006 July 24, David Berlind, “In marriage of 'CPUs and GPUs,' ATI snapped-up by AMD. Is NVidia next?”, in ZDNET, archived from the original on 2021-05-14

Fortunately, a brief adventure using .Mac sync chat support (found at the bottom of that aforelinked page) cleared up a repeating "merge/overwrite" sync dialog problem for me, and we felt the procedure was worth sharing.

2008 February 25, David Chartier, “How-To: Truly reset your .Mac sync data”, in Ars Technica, archived from the original on 2023-06-07

(Internet, informal) Linked previously (in the current text).


rem out

en-verb

rem out (third-person singular simple present rems out, present participle remming out, simple past and past participle remmed out)

rems out (present singular third-person)
remming out (participle present)
remmed out (participle past)
remmed out (past)

From rem (a shortening of remark, used as a comment-marking keyword in some programming languages) + out.

When Windows 98 is installed, it will "REM out" the MSCDEX statement, if there is one, since Windows has its own driver and doesn't need this one.

1998, Ralf Kober, Franck Buechel, Markus Baecker, Win 98 RX: Solve Your Own Windows 98 Computing Problems Easily, page 205

(programming, dated, transitive) To temporarily disable (a portion of source code) by converting it into a comment.


gh

(online gaming slang) Initialism of good half.


endif

(computing) A directive, in several programming languages, that marks the end of an if statement, especially one containing multiple if ... then ... else statements.


Condela

Short for connection definition language.

(computing) A procedural, parallel language for defining neural networks.


supercompilation

(computing) A technique, involving multiple metacompilations, that seeks to optimize a program.


copywronged

Play on words, from copyrighted and wrong.

(informal, computing) Having copy protection that is broken or inoperable.


cokebottle

From Coke + bottle, possibly from a nickname for the ! character, thought to resemble an upturned bottle.

MINCE has a million commands; Control-meta-CokeBottle probably means something.

...the task at hand with few, if any, religious debates over the virtues of modelessness or the sins of meta-cokebottle-shift.

1985, Peter S. Langston, "The Influence of the UNIX Operating System on the Development of Two Video Games", EUUGN, Vol. 5, No. 6, page 34 (reprinted in AUUGN Jul 1985, Vol. 6, No. 2, page 54) https://books.google.com/books?id=5xyk_PXaloAC&pg=PA54

1990-11-28, Jamie Zawinski, "Re: Do people still use Explorers?", comp.sys.ti.explorer,
If input was event-based instead of character based, then under X you could easily have seperate keybindings for left-shift-cokebottle and right-shift-cokebottle...

Nowadays many younger hackers can touch-type, so space-cadet-style quadruple-bucky-meta-cokebottle commands are less popular than formerly; […]

1996, Debra Cameron, Bill Rosenblatt, Eric S. Raymond, Learning GNU Emacs, O'Reilly Media,, page 408

Now type x-underscore-asterisk-coke bottle!

2015, Alex Feinman, We Were Gods (Omnibus Edition), page 235

(computing, slang) An unusual character, or one that is difficult to type.


brontobyte

From bronto- + byte, in reference to the brontosaurus, a very large dinosaur.

We believe this is the first time a company has ever talked about a machine that can crunch through “brontobytes” of data. (The word reminds us of brontosaurus, the largest dinosaur.) And just how big is that? It's 1,000 Yottabytes, of course.

2014 June 11, Julie Bort, “There's A New Word Being Used In The Computer Industry: ‘Brontobytes’”, in Business Insider

In a world awash in brontobytes of data, cutting your data requirements in half can dramatically reduce the demands that data management is placing upon your business.

2014, Christopher Surdak, Data Crush […], AMACOM, page 174

(informal, computing) 10²⁷ or 2⁹⁰ bytes.


mainchain

One user start to withdraw assets from sidechain to mainchain by sending transaction.

2020, Sheng Wen, Albert Zomaya, Laurence T. Yang, Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, Springer Nature, page 557

(cryptocurrencies) A blockchain with one or more sidechains attached to it.


falsy

From false + -y, to be an antonym to truthy.

In JavaScript, any expression or statement that expects a boolean value will work with a truthy or falsy value, so the fact that && does not always evaluate to true or false does not cause practical problems.

2012, David Flanagan, JavaScript Pocket Reference, page 40

However, in the second case, both '0' and the empty string () are falsy (in other words, they behave like false) and are therefore equal with respect to ==.

2014, Basarat Syed, Beginning Node.js, page 33

If the first operand (which comes before the question mark--doIt, in this example) is truthy, the expression evaluates to the second operand (between the question mark and colon), and if it's falsy, it evaluates to the third operand (after the colon).

2016, Kenny Ballou, Learning Elixir, page 92

(programming) Evaluating to false in a Boolean context.


pseudostreaming

(Internet) The seeking of a portion of a streamed video that has not yet been downloaded


datalink

(computing) The protocol layer that transfers data between adjacent network nodes in a wide area network or between nodes on the same local area network segment.


supercombinator

Supercombinators are used in the implementation of functional languages.

(computer science) A mathematical expression which is fully bound and self-contained. It may be either a constant or a combinator where all the subexpressions are supercombinators.


UP

(software) Initialism of Unified Process.


untrollable

en-adj

untrollable (comparative more untrollable, superlative most untrollable)

more untrollable (comparative)
most untrollable (superlative)

At any rate, this now leads me to a conundrum: If the soc.religion.* heirarchy is plagued with trolls and spam [how unKosher !], and if s.r.q is indeed the last unmoderated s.r.* group, then the s.r.* groups are now untrollable and unspammable, or is there a software work around for dedicated netpests ?

1997 November 9, David Rozen, “Re: No troll (Was: Re: Who is Oppressing Whom?)”, in soc.religion.quaker (Usenet)

Basically, it's an untrollable newsgroup since it's too difficult to be more outrageous than the normal traffic.

1999 August 26, China Blue, “Re: Went off on a handgun tangent...sorry”, in alt.silly.little.newsgroup (Usenet)

Now this I agree with; as Bill once said, we're all trolls here, which is why this is such an untrollable group.

2005 September 11, DE, “Re: defaults for printing dialog”, in alt.corel (Usenet)

(Internet) Not capable of, or suited to, being trolled.


wikiphobia

Wikiphobia arises out of some level of fear or dislike of the wiki.

2008, Stewart Mader, Wikipatterns, Wiley Publishing, page 110

Here Comes Everybody is as crisply argued and as enlightening a book about the internet as has been written. It might even cure your wikiphobia.

2008 March 28, Julian Dibbell, “Wikiphobia and Web 2.0”, in The Telegraph

Understand the cultural shift that needs to occur – wikiphobia is real.

2011, Government of British Columbia, "UX Toolbox: Building Better Web for Citizens", page 76


wikiphobe

([URL redacted] and [URL redacted] for the wikiphobes :)

2005 November 10, Bryan Derksen, “Re: Venusian orbital carbon industry?”, in rec.arts.sf.science (Usenet)

However, (pace the wikiphobes) you could look at the wikipedia page for "grammar", which will tell you it comprises phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics.

2006 July 18, Richard Herring, “Re: Word count of minimum vocabulary”, in sci.lang (Usenet)

If, on the other hand, you can't get your inner wikiphobe to shut up, then Clay Shirky's Here Comes Everybody is the book for you.


vlogosphere

From vlog + -o- + -sphere, after the pattern of blogosphere.

A bit older than most of vlogging's main practitioners — who tend to be in their mid- to late-20s — the self-proclaimed baby boomer cites Hodson as one of two artists whose work attracted her to the vlogosphere.

2006, The Independent Film & Video Monthly, volume 29, page 32

But even if you don't have movie-studio muscle to devote to your monologues, there are still ways to make a splash in the vlogosphere.

2006 September 24, Anna Kuchment, “Technology: Want to be a Video Star?”, in Newsweek

The terrain conquered by these cyberpioneers? The blogopshere (and its videostreaming complement, the vlogosphere).

2013, Sarah Banet-Weiser, Inna Arzumanova, “Creative Authorship: Self-Actualizing Individuals and the Self-Brand”, in Cynthia Chris, David A. Gerstner, editors, Media Authorship, Routledge, page 162

(Internet) The realm or culture of vlogs; all vlogs taken as a whole.


YouTubian

YouTubian (comparative more YouTubian, superlative most YouTubian)

more YouTubian (comparative)
most YouTubian (superlative)

As large as the current Google database is, even bigger shocks are coming. An avalanche of digital video measured in exabytes (10 to the 18th power, or 1,000 petabytes) is hurtling down from the mountainsides of panicked Big Media and bubbling up from the YouTubian depths.

2006 October, George Gilder, “The Information Factories”, in Wired

First I'm going to do something prototypically YouTubian: I'm going to talk about myself.

2008, John Green, "Introduction", in Alan Lastufka & Michael W. Dean, YouTube: An Insider's Guide to Climbing the Charts, O'Reilly Media (2008), page ix

In these YouTubian times, there's a certain peril in conducting a multi-city stand-up comedy tour: Punch lines precede their progenitor.

2008 April 21, Teresa Wiltz, “Sharp Edge, Lethal Aim: Chris Rock Brings the Pain to D.C.”, in The Washington Post

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


YouTubian

YouTubians, as many of us now refer to ourselves, have started to focus not only on the events of our own lives and the expression of our own views, but on the welcome response of others, from not only around the nation, but around the world.

2006, Andrew Riggins, "Blogging will lead to face-to-face interaction" (letter to the editor), The Arkansas Traveler (University of Arkansas), Volume 101, Number 14, 20 September 2006, page 5

Millions of us YouTubians laughed, out-loud some of us, as we watched a middle aged lady walk into the retaining wall of an ornamental fountain, fall head first into the water, thrash around as if being attacked by piranhas for a few seconds, clamber out and then continue to shop as if nothing had happened.

2011 May, Tony Millin, “Public inconvenience”, in Cardiff Now, page 26

I took a video and posted it to YouTube, where my fellow YouTubians charitably pointed out I was crazy.

2013 December 13, Del Stone Jr., “Dreaming of a white Christmas? Snap out of it!”, in Northwest Florida Daily News

(Internet) A user of video-sharing website YouTube.


cybermartyr

The most famous exception is Kevin Mitnick, the "dark side" hacker who became a cybermartyr after languishing in jail for four years without trial.

1999 June 6, Chris Taylor, “Geeks vs. G-Men”, in Time

Under the DMCA, selling a tool that breaks copy protection warrants jail time, and Sklyarov, a frail-looking techno-waif with a wife and babies at home, became an instant cybermartyr.

2002 March 17, Steven Levy, “Locking Up Your Rights”, in Newsweek

In 2011, efforts by several governments to shut him [Julian Assange] and WikiLeaks down made him the world's first cybermartyr.

2010, Ian Bremmer, Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World, Portfolio, published 2013

A person persecuted or punished for online activity.


PUA

potentially unwanted application
w:potentially unwanted application

(computing) Initialism of potentially unwanted application.

(computing) Initialism of Private Use Area (the ranges of Unicode code points reserved for private use).


subrequest

(computing, Internet) A secondary or subsidiary request.


elseweb

From else + web, after the pattern of elsewhere.

Elseweb there is a discussion about top vs bottom posting.

2007 July 2, nickie{D}, “netiquette: top vs bottom posting”, in alt.polyamory (Usenet)

I just got through telling this story elseweb this morning.

2008 March 20, Penelope Periwinkle, “Re: For Bill”, in soc.singles.moderated (Usenet)

Heh, well you know I remember The Herbs, from an icon I use elseweb :-)

2011 October 26, Dom, “Re: -[I]- Nobel prizes”, in alt.fan.pratchett (Usenet)

(Internet) At some other place on the Internet.


lurkership

en-noun

lurkership (countable and uncountable, plural lurkerships)

I'm going back into lurkership - but I'll probably pop up from time to time, be warned!

1999 March 16, TragedyTrousers [username], “Re: back home to a new world - the world of modems”, in uk.games.computer.quake2 (Usenet)

Sorry, have to come out of my state of lurkership to respond, completely off-topic, and say as far as I know it's actually only America (maybe Canada?) that has a silent 'h' in herbs.

2000 July 20, Samantha, “Re: Eddings pronounciation guide”, in alt.fan.eddings (Usenet)

I was just starting emerge from lurkership into this discussion group when it has lately become swamped by this non-controversy.

2001 April 5, Tom Wallis, “RE: New venue announced for discussions of Akinicity.”, in rec.heraldry (Usenet)

(uncountable, Internet) The state or quality of being a lurker.

This newsgroup might have a higher lurkership than normal because of the theat of harassment from the cult, the general level of flammage and spam, and the controversial nature of the topic.

1996 December 2, Martin Hunt, “Re: Nobody cares what cult critics think”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet)

I should imagine we have quite a large lurkership, who have subscribed and are desperately waiting for a few meaty threads.

1997 November 22, Stuart Lavin, “ABRR: Make ABRR Glorious Again”, in alt.books.robert-rankin (Usenet)

The lurkership has expanded because I've given each of my flying monkies computers!

2000 May 5, Gilligan, “Re: .asa lurkership expanding”, in alt.sailing.asa (Usenet)

(countable, Internet) The lurkers who frequent a newsgroup, message board, etc., taken as a group.


geoportal

(Internet) A form of web portal that handles geospatial information


haul video

Have you heard of 'hauling' or, to be a little more precise, a haul video? For those of you who aren't wholly up-to-date on the latest internet lingo, let me explain. Used mostly for retail purposes, a haul video is when a person records what items they purchased from stores, displaying each as they are unpacked, and then posts it to the internet, most likely onto YouTube. During the brief video, the purchaser might go over basic product details, prices and his or her own opinions of the […]

2014, Larry Mogelonsky, Hotel Llama, Author House, page 318

The majority of a haul video's content, however, is dedicated to the “haul” itself: meaning, these users' recent purchases. And an entire wing of YouTube is occupied by these videos, some with remarkably high viewership. Haulers will go through their purchased goods one-by-one, placing them near the camera so viewers can see the details in each object, and often making observations and recommendations as they go along. Within YouTube's haul discourse, there remain two […]

2016, Aaron Duplantier, Authenticity and How We Fake It: Belief and Subjectivity in Reality TV, Facebook and YouTube, McFarland, page 132

The haul video's emphasis on quantity over quality reaffirms the stereotypical depiction of female shoppers as irrational, easily swayed, and unable to resist a good bargain. And yet the calm, careful manner that most haul performers adopt when describing their hauls flips this stereotype by emphasizing perform as “economically instead the consumers' rational skill actor[s].”

2017, Laura Levin, Marlis Schweitzer, Performance Studies in Canada, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Haul videos were still popular, but she thought I should be paying attention to another trend: “Secondhand clothing and thrifting is so hot right now.”

2021 February 6, Rachel Monroe, “Ultra-fast Fashion Is Eating the World”, in The Atlantic

A video posted on the Internet consisting of someone showing and talking about their recently-purchased items.


deringing

(computer graphics) The process of removing ring-like artifacts from a video.


slideware

Software that aids the making of digital slideshows.


WinRT

(computing) Abbreviation of Windows Runtime.


in-app

in-app purchases

In-app updates also only work for Release configuration builds, not Debug builds.

2018, Jim Bennett, Xamarin in Action […], Simon and Schuster

(computing) Done or featured in an application.


Minecrafty

en-adj

Minecrafty (comparative more Minecrafty or Minecraftier, superlative most Minecrafty or Minecraftiest)

more Minecrafty (comparative)
Minecraftier (comparative)
most Minecrafty (superlative)
Minecraftiest (superlative)

Stranded 2 - a fun little game, now available for free. A bit minecrafty.

2011 May 16, John Dow, “Re: Premiership, West Ham, Balls, European”, in uk.games.video.misc (Usenet)

If you've been living in a massively multiplayer cave for the last few months, it's the pretty Minecrafty prologue to the ambitious Everquest Next, which will let you build and decorate and even alter the terrain of the world/s as you see fit.

2013 December 7, Tom Sykes, “Everquest Next Landmark trailer asks the pertinent question 'What is Everquest Next Landmark?'”, in PC Gamer

If you've been busy mining, farming, and doing all the other Minecrafty things that get you established, […]

2014, Stephen O'Brien, The Ultimate Player's Guide to Minecraft, Que Publishing, page 137

(video games, informal) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Minecraft.


ARGB

(computer graphics) Initialism of alpha, red, green, blue: a system used to represent digital colors with various levels of translucency.


Minecrafter

If the game is on easy mode, the zombies will just pound on the doors and create a really nice scare and, as any Minecrafter knows, they won’t even spawn on peaceful mode.

2012 February 27, Meg Iserloth, “Mojang: Where are They Now?”, in University Chronicle, volume 88, number 33, St. Cloud, Minn.: St. Cloud State University, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9, column 3

Furthermore, you can sync with other Minecrafters on a local area network in order to invite and play with friends in your own little world.

2013, Darren Murph, “The Best Not-exactly-productive Apps”, in iPhone Secrets: Do What You Never Thought Possible with Your iPhone, Indianapolis, Ind.: John Wiley & Sons, part III (Diving into Software), page 185

He and others in the community had begun discussing the opportunity for a gathering of Minecrafters, similar to anime and sci-fi conventions.

2013 November 4, David Langlois, “Minecon 2013 – Creepin’ around the Corner”, in The Bay Window, volume 14, number 3, Muskegon, Mich.: Muskegon Community College, →OCLC, page 5, column 2

(video games) A person who plays the game Minecraft.


subcache

(computing) A secondary or subsidiary cache.


marchitecture

(computing) A non-technical depiction of the architecture of a system, service, product line, or organization that has been simplified or made more conceptual for use in marketing communications.

(computing) An unfinished architecture that only exists as a figment of marketing.

(computing) An architecture whose design is dictated by marketing considerations.


megamenu

The webOS version of Facebook uses a megamenu for streamlined navigation, avoiding the extra navigation found in a Springboard pattern.

2012, Theresa Neil, Mobile Design Pattern Gallery, page 27

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(Internet, graphical user interface, neologism) A dropdown menu that expands into a relatively large and complex interface rather than a simple vertical list of commands.


enqueuer

(computing) A process or component that adds items to a queue.


dequeuer

(computing) A process or component that removes items from a queue.


CLA

(software, law) Initialism of Contributor License Agreement.


SNPP

(Internet) Simple Network Paging Protocol


LMGTFY

(Internet) Initialism of let me google that for you.


SAX

(computing, Internet) Acronym of Simple API for XML.


memory hole

From memory + hole. Sense 1 (“figurative place to which information is deliberately sent to be forgotten, or to which forgotten or lost information ends up”) is a transferred use of the physical slots which the English writer George Orwell (1903–1950) refers to in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), into which censored documents for destruction are dropped.

A memory hole provides performance improvement by reserving certain parts of memory for use by ISA cards. […] The memory hole is usually disabled because there are few ISA cards today that need to be mapped. If you have an ISA card that refuses to function properly in a PC with more than 16MB of RAM, you should enable the memory hole.

1997, Stephen J. Bigelow, “System Questions”, in PC Hardware FAT FAQs: Troubleshooting, Upgrading, Maintaining, and Repairing, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill, pages 11–12

We won't touch high ISA memory (the so-called memory hole in the 14 MB to 16 MB physical address range), because that kind of I/O memory is extremely rare nowadays and is not supported by the majority of modern motherboards or by the kernel.

2001 June, Alessandro Rubini, Jonathan Corbet, “Hardware Management”, in Andy Oram, editor, Linux Device Drivers, 2nd edition, Sebastopol, Calif.: O’Reilly & Associates, page 245

A fragment of physical address space which does not map to main memory.

tyhjä osoitealue

The use of new and delete, along with the scope related creation and deletion of objects, provide safer and more consistent management of the available memory pool. […] It also resolves common problems with passing incorrect pointers to free, or obtaining memory using malloc and then forgetting to free it (causing a memory hole). This typically occurs when a subroutine allocates some memory via malloc, and during some processing a premature return taken that does not free the allocated memory.

1992 September 9, Andrew McRae, “C++ in an Embedded Environment”, in AUUG 1992 Conference & Exhibition: Maintaining Control in an Open World: World Congress Centre, Melbourne, Australia, 8–11 September 1992: Conference Proceedings, Kensington, N.S.W.: AUUG, paragraph 5.5, page 5

When Lighttpd finishes, it calls mod_helloworld_free to release the memory held by plugin_data. Beware that not freeing the plugin_data creates a memory hole.

2008, Andre Bogus, “Writing Lighttpd Modules”, in Lighttpd: Installing, Compiling, Configuring, Optimizing, and Securing this Lighting-fast Web Server, Birmingham, West Midlands: Packt Publishing

(rare) Synonym of memory leak (“any of several faults in the memory allocation logic of a computer or program whereby parts of memory become hidden or unusable”)


flexbox

en-noun

flexbox (countable and uncountable, plural flexboxes)

Internet Explorer 9 does not support flexbox.

(web development, uncountable) A CSS3 layout model that allows elements on a web page to be arranged in certain ways within a one-dimensional container.

The contents of a flexbox can be positioned in any direction, can have their order swapped dynamically, and can auto-adjust their sizes and positions based on available space.

2012, Sergey Mavrody, Nika Mavrody, Sergey's HTML5 & CSS3: Quick Reference, page 112

There's still quite a bit of tumult in the standards recommendations and implementations for flexboxes, but IE10 and Windows 8 has a good, solid implementation of this extremely helpful layout technique.

2013, Jeremy Foster, CSS for Windows 8 App Development, page 161

You can nest flexboxes inside each other.

2014, Andy Harris, HTML5 and CSS3 All-in-One For Dummies

(web development, countable) An HTML element that uses this model.


smudge attack

smudge + attack; coined in 2010 by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Computer and Information Science in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA: see the quotation.

Touch screens are touched, so oily residues, or smudges, remain on the screen as a side effect. Latent smudges may be usable to infer recently and frequently touched areas of the screen – a form of information leakage. This paper explores the feasibility of smudge attacks, where an attacker, by inspection of smudges, attempts to extract sensitive information about recent user input.

2010 August 9, Adam J. Aviv, Katherine Gibson, Evan Mossop, Matt Blaze, Jonathan M. Smith, “Smudge Attacks on Smartphone Touch Screens”, in WOOT '10: 4th USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies, August 9, 2010, Washington, D.C.; USENIX, archived from the original on 2016-07-21

The OTP [one-time password] mechanism that financial institutions adopted utilizes a one-time password displayed on OTP device, so it is vulnerable to shoulder surfing attacks (SSA) and smudge attacks.

2012, Yunlim Ku with Okkyung Choi, Kangseok Kim, Taeshik Shon, Manpyo Hong, Hongjin Yeh, and Jai-Hoon Kim, “Extended OTP Mechanism Based on Graphical Password Method”, in James J[ong Hyuk] Park, Victor C. M. Leung, Cho-Li Wang, Taeshik Shon, editors, Future Information Technology, Application, and Service: FutureTech 2012 Volume 1, Dordrecht: Springer, →DOI, →ISSN, page 204

However, the fixed keypad lock can be easily unlocked by brute force attacks and the pattern lock is vulnerable to smudge attacks.

2013, “Information Security”, in Q. Ashton Acton, editor, Issues in Information Science—Information Technology, Systems, and Security, Atlanta, Ga.: ScholarlyEditions, published 2013, page 200

[A]rguably, picture passwords are a little more secure on desktops than on touchscreen devices, because you don't have to worry about anyone guessing your gesture password by examining your monitor for greasy fingerprints. That last scenario may sound like something out of a trashy espionage thriller, but the threat of a "smudge attack" is real enough to warrant serious study. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania coined the term in 2010 when they were able to successfully deduce gesture passwords used to unlock Android phones from smudge marks left on the screen.

2013 February 22, Alex Wawro, Marco Chiappetta, “Windows 8 picture passwords: Their great untapped potential”, in PC World, San Francisco, Calif.: PCW Communications, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-08-09

(computer security) A method used to crack the password of a touchscreen device by analysing the oily smears left on the device's screen by the user's fingers.


sidecar file

(computing) An accompanying file that stores data, such as metadata, which is not supported by the source file format.


subconversation

(chiefly computing) A conversation making up part of a larger conversation.


pupper

Around the same time, “wholesome” memes of cute doggos and puppers rejuvenated social media feeds that seemed daily filled with fresh horrors.

2019, Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, Riverhead Books

(Internet slang) Synonym of dog or puppy.


Caml

Categorical Abstract Machine Language
w:Caml

(computer languages) Acronym of Categorical Abstract Machine Language, a dialect of ML.


CAML

w:Collaborative Application Markup Language

(computer languages) Initialism of Collaborative Application Markup Language.


HVD

(computing) Initialism of hosted virtual desktop.


lightmapped

(computer graphics) Illuminated using a lightmap.


lightmapping

(computer graphics) The use of lightmaps.


backface

(computer graphics) The back side of a face of a mesh, which typically will never face the camera and can thus be culled (discarded) from the list of items to be rendered.


preallocation

preallocation (countable and uncountable, plural preallocations)


splat map

(computer graphics) The alpha channel map used in the process of splatting.


meshable

It is important to mention that we do not always simplify the CAD model with the sole objective of making it meshable.

2014, Paul Kurowski, Engineering Analysis with SolidWorks Simulation 2014, page 10

(computer graphics) Capable of being converted to a polygon mesh.


hypernode

(graph theory) A kind of graph whose node set can contain other graphs as well as basic nodes.


marching cubes

(computer graphics) An algorithm for extracting a polygonal mesh of an isosurface from a three-dimensional scalar field.


bashtag

Blend of bash (“disparage, criticize”) + hashtag.

blend

The threat of a viral video or Twitter “bashtag” takedown has raised the cost of direct manipulation and greenwash.

2012, Dana O'Rourke, Shopping for Good, The MIT Press, page 22

The hashtag became a bashtag and Twitter users were instead using it to share their negative experiences of McDonalds, letting others know about the poor service and bad food they had experienced.

2013, Robert Ashton, Jessica Juby, Writing for the Web: Teach Yourself, McGraw-Hill, unnumbered page

Unfortunately, while you like your product, others may feel differently. It doesn't take long for a hashtag to become a bashtag.

2014, Michael Cross, Social Media Security: Leveraging Social Networking While Mitigating Risk, Syngress, page 99

(Internet) A hashtag used to criticize something, especially one that was intended for promotional use but repurposed by users to criticize that which it was intended to promote, or make the opposite point.


bonding protocol

en-noun

bonding protocol (plural bonding protocols)

(computing) link aggregation, especially in Linux


killboard

The killboard system also offered an indicator of the expertise and trust hierarchy. A member who was active in the combat team would keep statistics of combat he or she was involved with on the killboard […]

2014, Harald Warmelink, Online Gaming and Playful Organization, page 108

(video games) A table that ranks players by number of kills.


checkerboarding

checkerboard rendering
checkerboard rendering#English

(computer graphics) Synonym of checkerboard rendering


subaddress

(computing) A secondary or subsidiary part of an address.


quirks mode

backward compatibility
backward compatibility

(Internet) A technique used by some web browsers to maintain backward compatibility with older web pages that do not comply with modern standards. When such a page is detected, it is rendered in the older, non-standard way.


-mance

I very much look forward to this on my Dorianmance playthrough.

My Andersmance was taken at a more leisurely pace, so I really got into the depth and grief over his character and his romance.

My own Galemance run will go full swing once my Astarionmance one wraps up, so more to come soon ☺

2023 September 19, Irma 'Aimo (@aimostudio), Twitter

(fandom slang, video games) A suffix attached to a noun or character's name to create a word for an in-game romance subplot or mechanic.


superplay

(video games) A playthrough of a computer or video game in which the whole game or a select part of it, such as a single level, is played as skilfully as possible, optionally with certain prerequisites.


RTSP

(computing) Real Time Streaming Protocol: a network protocol designed for use in entertainment and communications systems to control streaming media servers.


minimap

From mini- + map; (simple map of landmarks): introduced by Siegel and White (1975).

(video games) A small on-screen map to aid players in orienting themselves within the game.


true color

(computer graphics) graphics with 24 bits of storage per pixel, allowing for up to 16,777,216 different colors


deep color

deep color (countable and uncountable, plural deep colors)

(uncountable, computer graphics) Graphics with 30 or more bits of storage per pixel, allowing for billions of distinct colors.


DRL

The primary learning algorithm in AlphaDev is an extension of AlphaZero, a well-known DRL algorithm, in which a neural network is trained to guide a search to solve AssemblyGame.

2023 June 30, Daniel J. Mankowitz, Andrea Michi, Anton Zhernov, Marco Gelmi, Marco Selvi, “Faster sorting algorithms discovered using deep reinforcement learning”, in Nature, volume 618, number 7964, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 257–263

reinforcement learning
reinforcement learning#English

(machine learning) Initialism of deep reinforcement learning.


pointing device

pointing device (plural pointing devices)

(computing) Any device, such as a mouse or trackball, used to control an on-screen pointer or cursor.


autoconfirm

en-verb

autoconfirm (third-person singular simple present autoconfirms, present participle autoconfirming, simple past and past participle autoconfirmed)

autoconfirms (present singular third-person)
autoconfirming (participle present)
autoconfirmed (participle past)
autoconfirmed (past)


indeffed

Shortened from indefinite (block) + -ed.

Someone else may want to consider whether the AFDs should be closed as initiated disruptively by a sock of an indeffed user.

(Wikimedia jargon) Used to describe a user, account, or IP address that is indefinitely blocked or banned from editing or other actions.


Donkey Kong

Named after the Nintendo video game character Donkey Kong.

Let's get one thing straight, donkey kongs--I SERVE *NO ONE* BUT MYSELF, AT *ALL* TIMES, […]

1995 August 8, Zoogz Rift [username], “I'm not on this planet to serve YOU, ASSHOLES”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet)

HEY DONKEY KONGS!
IF YOU RACIST SAY THAT THE "TAMILS CURSE IS HAUNTING SL CRICKET" […]

1996 January 26, P. DE SILVA, “Re: IS TAMILS CURSE HAUNTING SL CRICKET TEAM?!”, in soc.culture.sri-lanka (Usenet)

Well, if the retarded islamic DONKEY KONGS without any question, believe that HEAVEN awaits these dog shit heads after committing atrocity against humanity - both islamic and non-islamic, karmic reality is a better alternative.

1998 November 3, PAKI BASH [username], “Re: Too hot for Hindu Hoodlums?”, in soc.culture.indian (Usenet)

(slang, derogatory) An uncivilized or ill-mannered person; a boor.


memoizable

(computer science) Suitable for memoization.


hash tree

(computing theory) A tree (data structure) in which every non-leaf node is labelled with the hash of the labels of its children.


tower defense

(video games) A style of real-time strategy video game in which the player attempts to stop enemies from crossing a map by building traps to slow them down and towers or turrets which shoot at them as they pass within range.


Merkle tree

Named after American computer scientist Ralph Merkle (1952–), who patented it in 1979.

named-after

2001, Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Mobile Agent Route Protection through Hash-Based Mechanisms, C. Pandu Rangan, Cunsheng Ding (editors), Progress in Cryptology - INDOCRYPT 2001: 2nd International Conference, Proceedings, Volume 2, Springer, LNCS 2247, page 17,
The second solution uses Merkle trees and minimizes the cost of route protection by the agent owner, so that a single digital signature suffices to protect the whole route; for hosts along the route, the verification cost is similar to the cost of previous schemes in the literature, namely one digital signature verification per route step.

2004, Michael Szydlo, Merkle Tree Traversal in Log Space and Time, Christian Cachin, Jan Camenisch (editors), Advances in Cryptology - EUROCRYPT 2004: International Conference, Proceedings, Springer, LNCS 3027, page 541,
Merkle trees have found many uses in theoretical cryptographic constructions, having been specifically designed so that a leaf value can be verified with respect to a publicly known root value and the authentication data of the leaf.

In order to support dynamic data operations, the Merkle Tree is made dynamic by making use of relative index.

2015, Puonam M. Pardeshi, Bharat Tidke, “Improvement of Data Integrity and Data Dynamics for Data Storage Security in Cloud Computing”, in J. K. Mandal, Suresh Chandra Satapathy, Manas Kumar Sanyal, Partha Pratim Sarkar, Anirban Mukhopadhyay, editors, Information Systems Design and Intelligent Applications, Proceedings of 2nd International Conference, Volume 1, Springer, page 279

(computer science, cryptography) A binary hash tree.


on like Donkey Kong

From the Nintendo video game gorilla-like character Donkey Kong, which is used in the phrase because of the character’s stereotypical strength and for the near-rhyme between on and Kong; likely influenced by the earlier construction in like Flynn.

It's on like Donkey Kong / You wanted that fast buck / Now I gotta light that ass up

1992 November 17, “Now I Gotta Wet ’Cha”, in The Predator, performed by Ice Cube

If those four white police don't get hung, it's on again. It's on like Donkey Kong!

1993 February 16, John Wilder, “Gangs put L.A. on edge”, in USA Today

Got it going on like Donkey Kong, and whoo-wee, shut my mouth, slap your grandma, there oughta be a law.

2005 October 3, Dallas Davidson, Randy Houser, Jamey Johnson (lyrics and music), “Honky Tonk Badonkadonk”, in Songs About Me, performed by Trace Adkins

It's going to be "on like Donkey Kong" when Food Network Star and local restaurant owner Guy Fieri comes to the 2007 California State Fair!

2007 August 1, “Food Network Star Guy Fieri to visit the 2007 State Fair!: Kids can vie for the chance to cook with Guy!”, in Business Wire, archived from the original on 2016-09-01

I will politically haunt you for the biggest fumble in the history of San Francisco politics. It's on like Donkey Kong.

2011 January 4, Chris Daly, San Francisco Board of Supervisors meeting

(chiefly US) An intensifier used in the same contexts as it's on, go on, and other expressions using the word on, but to express greater emphasis.


twidiot

(Internet slang, neologism, derogatory) Someone who posts stupid remarks on the Twitter microblogging service.


type punning

programming language
programming language

(programming) The circumvention of the system of data types in a programming language in order to achieve an effect that would be difficult or impossible to achieve within the bounds of the formal language.


program trading

But the controversy over program trading, the sophisticated investment strategy responsible for the upheavals that have sometimes marked “witching” Fridays, is far from over.

1986 September 21, James Sterngold, “Wall Street rethinks its latest trading fad”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-05-31

When program trading came into vogue in the mid-1980s, it was at the forefront of Wall Street's computer revolution—and its practitioners included the Street's largest and most luminous brokerages.

1992 May 17, “Program Traders: They're Back, Without The Bad Vibes”, in Businessweek, retrieved 2014-05-31

A more bewildering development is the array of complex, computer-assisted trading techniques that, in taking the stock exchanges by storm, have become a major cause of the market's extraordinary peaks and valleys. The most controversial is known as program trading, in which computers, for example, launch massive buy and sell orders.

2001 June 24, George Russell, “Manic Market”, in Time, retrieved 2014-05-31

I’ll say it again: program trading, now known as “high-frequency” trading, serves no purpose but to line the pockets of the program-trading firms at the expense of the millions of other investors participating in the market.

2010 May 8, Sy Harding, “Program Trading Needs To Be Banned”, in Forbes, retrieved 2014-05-31

(business, finance, computing) High-volume and high-speed buying and selling of investment securities, such as stocks and bonds, which is initiated and executed by brokerage firms' computer programs that continually monitor market conditions.


decrunch

en-verb

decrunch (third-person singular simple present decrunches, present participle decrunching, simple past and past participle decrunched)

decrunches (present singular third-person)
decrunching (participle present)
decrunched (participle past)
decrunched (past)

Several phone calls and a borrowed Mac later, I found that the single disk sent me wouldn't in any case decrunch (uncompress its data) without a sister disk — which had gone astray across the Atlantic. Such hitches are always irritating […]

1993, The New York Times Book Review, volume 98, page 2

The executable is still decrunched in memory, so it will _use_ some extra memory but _save_ disk space.

1996, Marcus Alanen, “Re: Exe Crunchers”, in comp.sys.amiga.programmer (Usenet)

Dear Dr. Destiny, my dictionary on CD-ROM won't decrunch, what do you recommend?

1998, Sandra Martz, Shirley Coe, Generation to generation, page 123

(transitive, intransitive, computing) To decompress (data) previously compressed by crunching.


trolldom

(Internet) The realm or sphere of trolls (online troublemakers).


polypile

polypile (third-person singular simple present polypiles, present participle polypiling, simple past and past participle polypiled)

polypiles (present singular third-person)
polypiling (participle present)
polypiled (participle past)
polypiled (past)

(video games, roguelikes) To stack (items) so as to polymorph them into different items in a single turn.


fragfest

What better time is there than the holidays to revel in the profound joys of video gaming? Time off from work or school can be put to prime use: blasting a loved one in a "SOCOM II" multiplayer frag-fest, dropping a mad rhyme with "Karaoke Revolution," slashing your way across Middle Earth in "Lord of the Rings".

2003 December 11, Scott Taves, “Games to suit any player await easy-chair heroes in various formats”, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer, retrieved 2014-06-07

Unreal is a total fragfest that is all about over-the-top, arcade-style action.

2006 September 10, Seth Schiesel, “Video Games: War, Whimsy, Wrestling and the New Zelda”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-06-07

Spec Ops: The Line is a cover-based shooter in the mould of Gears Of War, although comparing its gameplay to Epic's testosterone-juiced fragfest is doing the latter something of a disservice.

2012 June 26, Nick Cowen, "Spec Ops: The Line" (game review), The Guardian (UK) (retrieved 7 June 2014)

(video games) Video gameplay, especially for multiple players, involving extreme action, deadly combat, explosions, etc.


comparand

From Latin comparandum; By surface analysis, compare + -and.

(linguistics, computing) A thing to which something is compared.


mumblage

As to the mumblage on "race", since there exists no well defined meaning of the word, depending on how one defines it, one can imagine a group which will prove one's point, whichever one wishes to prove.

2001 April 18, KPJ (kpj@sics.se), "Re: Made in China," mail archive at extropians.weidai.com (retrieved 10 June 2014)

Mostly idiotic mumblage about how Paul McCartney was dead and had been replaced by a robot.

2005 May 8, Citizen Arcane, ""Number Nine, Number Nine, Number Nine"," CitizenArcane.com (retrieved 10 June 2014)

We are in the cross-hairs of a customer who has accepted our original flawcharts and mumblage (which I pursued with bewilderment), so for my own conscience I would like to complete the project with something that is 'right.'

2006 Jan. 16, Richard Cleis (rcleis at mac.com), "[plt-scheme] Diagrams," lists.racket-lang.org (retrieved 10 June 2014)

If all you've been given is some mumblage about "portability", ask the dipstick who's telling you to do this to provide you with solid numbers.

2007 Sept. 20, John Bode, "C/C++ guidelines," velocityreviews.com (retrieved 10 June 2014)

Most of the other legalese mumblage is about patent protection and so on.

2008 January 3, Richard Teer, “RE: avr-lib-c-extentions library”, in Discussion of development of avr-libc / comments.gmane.org, retrieved 2014-06-10

I get some vague mumblage about charging more for folks who major in things that aren’t something such as anthropology, arts or theater.

2012 December 15, “Cheap Sheepskin”, in Blog: Simple Country Physicist, retrieved 2014-06-10

(slang, often computing) Mumbled or imprecise remarks, especially remarks which are trivial or unreliable.


picture-in-picture

(graphical user interface, Internet) A feature where video content floats over the web page as a separate element.


glitchfest

(computing) A situation involving numerous glitches or bugs.


SEFF

software engineering
software engineering

service effect specification
service effect specification#English

(software engineering) Initialism of service effect specification.


sharing economy

en-noun

sharing economy (plural sharing economies)

The sharing economy reveals a return to behaviors such as bartering and to legal forms like co-operatives.

2011, Lucy Bernholz, Philanthropy and Social Investing Blueprint 2012, pages 33–34

Tight economic times and a growing openness to strangers thanks to the Internet have given rise to the "sharing economy." People are logging on to sites and apps to rent out their cars, houses and even their clothes directly to one another.

2013 September 16, Eliana Dockterman, “The Rise of 'Sharecations'”, in Time, retrieved 2014-06-17

In the sharing economy, safety issues, taxes and regulation have tended to be an afterthought.

2014 April 21, David Streitfeld, “Companies Built on Sharing Balk When It Comes to Regulators”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-06-17

(economics, public policy) A system of economic exchange in which participants interact in a direct and cooperative manner, often with the aid of social media, to produce, market, and consume goods, services, and resources.


PTAL

(software engineering) Acronym of please take a look; please review and comment at the proposed change to software source code.


underfeatured

en-adj

underfeatured (comparative more underfeatured, superlative most underfeatured)

more underfeatured (comparative)
most underfeatured (superlative)

Why are so many client/server projects late, over budget, and underfeatured? It must be the technology.

1996 May 20, InfoWorld, volume 18, number 21, page 73

[…] companies tend to lose their leadership positions to companies that enter the market with a disruptive technology or market change. These new companies introduce products that are initially underfeatured […]

2005, Karl D. Schubert, CIO Survival Guide, page 222


uberblogger

But then an uberblogger, Mickey Kaus of slate.com, commented on my comment, and his comments were responded to and picked up by others.

2008, David D. Perlmutter, Blog Wars, Oxford University Press, page 18

Roberts is referring to the time constraints on his ability to write a media column for Westword's print edition as well as being the "uberblogger" for Westword's news blog, called The Latest Word.

2008 November 22, “Mr. Roberts at new helm”, in Rocky Mountain News

But conservative uberblogger Instapundit — aka Glenn Reynolds — had another reaction.

2009 October 27, Victor Morton, “Inside Blogotics”, in The Washington Times


shift register

Shift registers, as Leibniz had demonstrated 260 years earlier, could perform binary arithmetic simply by shifting an entire row of binary digits one position to the right or left.

2012, George Dyson, Turing's Cathedral, Penguin, published 2013, page 137

(computing) A register designed to subject data to a shift.


smart bomb

On your side, you've got three lives, with each life having three smart bombs. These wipe out all the enemy on the screen when used, as smart bombs should.

1988, Flying Shark (game review) in Your Sinclair issue 27, page 67

(video games) A weapon that damages or kills all enemies within a large area.


copy-paste

en-noun

copy-paste (countable and uncountable, plural copy-pastes)

Etymology tree
Middle English copy
English copy
Middle English paste
English paste
English copy-paste

etymon

Paragraphs, images or diagrams are frequently assembled manually by copy-paste actions.

2007, Katrien Herbert, Erik Duval, "Evaluating the ALOCOM Approach for Scalable Content Repurposing", Creating New Learning Experiences on a Global Scale (), Springer →ISBN, page 364

Optimizing your META Keywords field is remarkably easy, especially if you have just optimized your page titles. All you need to do is a simple copy-paste.

2009, Stephen Woessner, The Small Business Owner's Handbook to Search Engine Optimization: Increase Your Google Rankings, Double Your Site Traffic... in Just 15-Steps - Guaranteed, Atlantic Publishing Company, page 114

It also has disadvantages; for one thing, the lack of focus on program structure leads to lots of copy-paste programming and poorly structured programs. Language workbenches support developing new kinds of programming platforms like this.

2010, Martin Fowler, Domain-Specific Languages, Pearson Education

(computing) The action of duplicating (text, an object, etc.) by copying it and later pasting somewhere else.

copienganxar

action of duplicating by copying and later pasting

The interesting fact, however, is that the Regulation takes as a model, or better to say it is mostly a copy-paste of the text, of the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods rather than being adjusted to the needs of Kosovo.

2013, Ronald A Brand, D Wes Rist, The Export of Legal Education, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., page 101

(chiefly computing, informal) Material incorporated into another work with minimal or no changes.

copienganxa

material incorporated into another work with minimal or no changes


copy-paste

en-verb

copy-paste (third-person singular simple present copy-pastes, present participle copy-pasting, simple past and past participle copy-pasted)

copy-pastes (present singular third-person)
copy-pasting (participle present)
copy-pasted (participle past)
copy-pasted (past)

It can be useful to copy-paste frames to transfer a sequence from the main timeline to the timeline of a clip symbol.

2004, Corinne Hervo, Straight to the Point: Flash 5, Firewall Media

(computing, transitive) To copy (text, an object, etc.) and later paste it somewhere else.


photoblogger

From photo + blogger or photoblog + -er.


voice command

It can take pictures or video from a front-facing camera, controlled by a voice command or a swipe on the right-hand armature, and is designed to display at-a-glance information on its screen which is visible only to the user.

2014 June 24, “Google Glass go on sale in the UK for £1,000”, in The Guardian

(computing) A spoken instruction to a computer.


subforum

(Internet) A single message board that is part of an online discussion forum.


goshwow

en-adj

goshwow (comparative more goshwow, superlative most goshwow)

more goshwow (comparative)
most goshwow (superlative)

From gosh + wow. Derived from a caption ("Gosh! Wow! Boyohboy! The mosta and the besta!") used in the July 10, 1939 issue of Time magazine, reprinted from a letter in the August 1939 issue of science fiction pulp magazine Thrilling Wonder Stories, in an article about the first World Science Fiction Convention, aka Nycon I, held in New York in July 1939.

You have been told how easy it is to write useful programs on your new $200 Goshwow personal computer. Being a good person who always brushes after every meal, you dutifully worked your way through the Basic instruction book—maybe two of them.

1983 December, Stephen Kimmel, “The First Program”, in Creative Computing, volume 9, number 12, page 156

Yet Mondo is so enamored of the gee-whizbang neatness, the goshwow sense of wonder inspired by such technical "innovations" as virtual reality—the understandable dream of finding a universe in a grain of silicon—that I often wonder if they're not showing just a little unseemly haste to leave this stinkin' cesspit of a world behind their television snow and mirror shades.

1991 Winter, D. S. Black, “Mondo Reality High”, in Processed World, number 28, page 55

My 33mhz 486 is no longer a goshwow machine, Dell having done their usual trick of waiting until I bought it before dropping the price hugely.

1992 July 5, Terry Pratchett, “Hi, people”, in alt.fan.pratchett (Usenet), message-ID <memo.507923@cix.compulink.co.uk>

Overall, you seem enraputered with all the really neat goshwow technology that is still near the edge of sci-fi wishful thinking.

1999 September 30, Bev Clark/Steve Gallacci, “Re: Orbital kills”, in rec.aviation.military (Usenet), message-ID <7t0e3m$35t@dfw-ixnews21.ix.netcom.com>

(dated, fandom slang and computing) Of or pertaining to a sense of wonder; awe inspiring; amazement causing.


AIIM

(computing) Initialism of Association for Information and Image Management.


EDMS

(computing, dated) Initialism of electronic document management system.


transcompilation

(computing) The translation of source code in one programming language into source code for another programming language.


Multics

Acronym of Multiplexed Information and Computing Service.

(computing) An influential early time-sharing operating system.


mimic function

(computing) A function that modifies a file to make it assume the statistical properties of another file.


scatter/gather

(computing) Being or relating to a form of I/O by which a single procedure call sequentially writes data from multiple buffers to a single data stream, or reads data from a stream into multiple buffers.


softcode

en-verb

softcode (third-person singular simple present softcodes, present participle softcoding, simple past and past participle softcoded)

softcodes (present singular third-person)
softcoding (participle present)
softcoded (participle past)
softcoded (past)

From soft + code, modelled on earlier hard code.

Keep things soft (as in softcoding) wherever possible. Visit a lawyer and make 'parameterisation' your middle name; it'll sound good at parties, and changes to the system will be far less painful.

1992, John W. O. Brinkworth, Software quality management: a pro-active approach

1997, Barbara L. Maia Goldstein, Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers, Plug and play software for agile manufacturing, SPIE-International Society for Optical Engineering
Best of breed component approaches are better supported because of the softcoding of much of the factory model and integration logic.

I have used this technique to build very flexible code generators, softcoded calculation engines for users, and much more.

1999, Steven Feuerstein, Oracle PL/SQL Programming: Guide to Oracle8i Features, O'Reilly Media, Inc., page 76

[…] you will need to consider the business requirements first, and only then encode them in your application. Let's discuss two approaches to this: the traditional “hardcoded” technique and the “softcoded” rules-based approach.

2004, Dave Minter, Jeff Linwood, Building Portals with the Java Portlet API, Apress, page 289

Given the rationale for softcoding, it is clear that you should softcode attributes that may not be known until run time. For simplicity and improved performance, you can hardcode attributes that are certain.

2010, Michael Blaha, Patterns of Data Modeling, CRC Press, page 175

(programming) To construct a program in a way which ensures that certain values and methods of operation are adjustable at run time.


Fisher-Yates shuffle

en-noun

Fisher-Yates shuffle (plural Fisher-Yates shuffles)

Named after Ronald Fisher and Frank Yates.

(computing) A particular algorithm for generating an unbiased random permutation of a set. It selects elements randomly from the initial set until none remain.


savescum

en-verb

savescum (third-person singular simple present savescums, present participle savescumming, simple past and past participle savescummed)

savescums (present singular third-person)
savescumming (participle present)
savescummed (participle past)
savescummed (past)

(intransitive, video games, often derogatory) To reload the last saved game whenever the player character dies or an unfavorable outcome has been encountered.


savescummer

(video games, roguelikes) A player who savescums.


startscum

startscum (third-person singular simple present startscums, present participle startscumming, simple past and past participle startscummed)

startscums (present singular third-person)
startscumming (participle present)
startscummed (participle past)
startscummed (past)

(intransitive, video games, roguelikes, derogatory) To start and quit the game repeatedly in order to obtain a favourable starting situation (this being generated at random for each game).


wedge of circles

en-noun

wedge of circles (plural wedges of circles)

(graph theory) A graph with only one vertex.


bouquet of circles

bouquet of circles (plural bouquets of circles)

(mathematics, graph theory) A graph with only one vertex.


IoT

Internet of Things
Internet of Things#English

(computing) Initialism of Internet of Things (a self-configuring wireless network between objects)


unportable

en-adj

unportable (comparative more unportable, superlative most unportable)

more unportable (comparative)
most unportable (superlative)

(computing) Not portable; not (easily) transferred or converted between different systems.


deadly diamond of death

en-noun

deadly diamond of death (plural deadly diamonds of death)

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

(object-oriented programming, humorous) The diamond problem.


diamond problem

diamond problem (plural diamond problems)

So called because a diagram of the classes has a diamond (quadrilateral) shape.

(object-oriented programming) The ambiguity that arises when two classes B and C inherit from A, and a further class D inherits from both B and C, so that if there is a method in A that B and/or C has overridden, and D does not override it, it is unclear which version of the method D should inherit.


Redditor

/ˈɹɛdɪtə(ɹ)/

From Reddit + -or, or as a blend of Reddit + editor.

Because of Reddit's voting system, the visibility of content is dependent on how the content resonates with Redditors.

2013, Darin Jewell, Conrad Jones, Publish and Promote Your Ebook in a Day, page 140

/u/RemindMeBot can be invoked by a Redditor to remind them of a thread or comment after a certain period of time.

2016, Robert W. Gehl, Maria Bakardjieva, Socialbots and Their Friends

The Reddit amateurs may be gloating about their victory over elite hedge funds now, but in the casino of Wall Street the house always wins, and many Redditors may be flirting with financial catastrophe.

2021 February 3, Farhad Manjoo, “Can We Please Stop Talking About Stocks, Please?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

A contributor to Reddit, a news and discussion website.


RDBMS

database management system
database management system#English

(databases) Initialism of relational database management system.


e-alert

An alert sent by e-mail or similar electronic means.


hitbox

(computer graphics) An invisible shape bounding all or part of a model (in a video game, etc.) used in collision detection to determine whether another object collides with the model.


achievement whore

achievement whore (plural achievement whores)

(video games, slang) A person who plays video games for the primary purpose of unlocking achievements.


Mbit

(computing, formal) Abbreviation of megabit.

(computing, informal) Abbreviation of mebibit.


otome game

The otome games are marketed heavily toward female gamers, something generally uncommon with video game marketing. As of this writing, several game developers have invested in localizing otome games originally released only in Japan into English.

2017, Amy M. Green, Matthew Wilhelm Kapell, Storytelling in Video Games: The Art of the Digital Narrative

A story-based video game in which the player attempts to establish a romantic relationship between the female player character and one of several male characters.


diagrammer

(computing) A software program for constructing diagrams.


spacecut

Also, since part of a polygon (facet) of one object might be obscured by that of another intersecting object, I would assume that the standard Z-sort alogrithms would not be enough. Does this mean that I would have to use Z-buffering, or tessellate (sp?) the resultant (possibly nonconvex) polygon into triangles and draw them in Z-order? If not, what is a fast way of doing spacecuts?

1993, Keith Lau, “More help needed! Spacecuts, etc ...”, in comp.graphics (Usenet)

Effect 6: Gouraud spacecut - Probably the worst effect in the demo - has been done miles better before!

1995, dro...@vnet.ibm.com, “Demo review - Killing time by oxyron”, in alt.sys.amiga.demos (Usenet)

(computer graphics, demoscene) An animated visual effect in which one polyhedron intersects another, forming an empty space where their volumes overlap.


UGC

(Internet, social media) Initialism of user-generated content.


twitch game

‘They’re Twitch Games,’ he grinned, ‘arcade games. An adventure game is one where you use your mind; if you can type, you can play an adventure. If you require anything other than that, you’ve got a twitch game — an arcade game — where your skill of movement is more important than your thinking. […]

1985, Scott Adams, quoted in Graeme Kidd, Great Scott!, in Crash issue 15

The Internet is a bad bet for online versions of twitch games because the Internet can be about as split-second and consistent as your average presidential candidate.

2003, Jessica Mulligan, Bridgette Patrovsky, Developing Online Games: An Insider's Guide, page 157

The fun of twitch games comes from the mastery of a difficult dexterity challenge.

2009, Brenda Brathwaite, Ian Schreiber, Challenges for Game Designers, page 113

(informal, video games) A video game requiring fast reactions.


Instagram

/ˈɪnstəɡɹæm/

Trade name. Blend of instant + telegram. By surface analysis, insta- + -gram.

According to a survey commissioned by the credit card company Barclay, 9 percent of shoppers in Britain admitted to buying clothes online for Instagram. After posting pictures of themselves wearing the item online, they return it.

2019 September 25, Kendra Pierre-Louis, “How to Buy Clothes That Are Built to Last”, in New York Times

Carla's got a boyfriend / I spotted him on Instagram / Followed him about a bit

2020, “Carla's got a boyfriend”, in The Night Chancers, performed by Baxter Dury

(Internet) An online photo- and video-sharing social networking service, originally designed to mimic old-fashioned instant cameras.

insta-

instant; long predates Insta; likewise productive of compounds, and ultimately cognate, but essentially homonymic


Wii

Marketing coinage: homophone for we, with the two i characters supposed to represent two people, suggesting players gathering together.

(video games) A video game system released worldwide by Nintendo in 2006, noted for its unique motion-based control system.


geometric pen

The classic example of using geometric and cosmetic pens is in architectural drawing: You'd use a geometric pen for drawing the walls of the building. If you then zoom in on the drawing using a transform, the walls will appear wider, as they should.

1994 January 25, Charles Petzold, “Extended Pen Creation Under Windows NT”, in PC Magazine, volume 13, number 2, page 291

To be more specific, a geometric pen has a scalable width, different styles, end caps, and joins.

2001, Feng Yuan, Windows Graphics Programming: Win32 GDI and DirectDraw, page 468

(computer graphics) A configurable drawing tool for creating lines that has a width specified in logical units, as opposed to device units (pixels), and therefore scales when the resulting image is zoomed in or out.


MOBA

(video games) Acronym of multiplayer online battle arena.


webometrics

(Internet) The measurement and subsequent analysis of links on the World Wide Web.


Twitterstorm

Witness the “Twitterstorm” Domino's faced when a video surfaced of one franchisee's employees adding, shall we say, extra ingredients to its pizzas.

2010, Rick Mathieson, The On-Demand Brand: 10 Rules for Digital Marketing Success in an Anytime, Everywhere World, AMACOM, page 79

It wasn't entirely bad; it allowed me to get online to help with the Twitterstorm we were organizing to draw attention to fossil fuel subsidies as world leaders arrived in Rio for an environmental summit.

2013, Bill McKibbon, Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist, Times Books, page 154

There was an almost-instant Twitterstorm. The entire British Eurovision audience […] went completely berserk.

2013 May 17, “Eurovision is marching to the beat of a different drum”, in Belfast Telegraph

(Internet) A flurry of increased activity on the social network Twitter, especially over a controversy or popular event.


LoC

(programming) Initialism of lines of code.


softbot

The Internet Softbot (software robot) is a fully implemented AI agent developed at the University of Washington. […] For example, the softbot but use netfind to determine David McAllester's email address.

1998, Michael N. Huhns, Readings in Agents, page 77

(computing) A computer program that acts on behalf of a user or another program.


chiclet

(Internet) A button allowing the user to subscribe to an RSS feed.


show notes

Several schools of thought exist on how to approach show notes. Some podcasters say you should be very brief, using notes only to hold URLs and other pieces of important offline data that your listeners may not have had time to write down as the show was playing.

2020, Tee Morris, Chuck Tomasi, Podcasting For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, page 197

Text notes that accompany a podcast and describe its content.


opless

There's also #drum - a opless hangout for bofhs with a large LART who aren't afraid to use it.

1999, Tachyon, “Re: [I] IRC - I'm confused/in need of help”, in alt.fan.pratchett (Usenet)

Another thing I suggest is opless channels.

2001, cLIeNUX user, “Re: [9fans] irc client (maybe server) project looking for contributors”, in comp.os.plan9 (Usenet)

(Internet, IRC) Without ops (channel operators).


POSIX time

From POSIX, a set of standards designed to provide portability between Unix variants.


gater

Optimizing the selection of clock gaters based on activity is known as power-driven clock gating.

2012, Rakesh Chadha, J. Bhasker, An ASIC Low Power Primer: Analysis, Techniques and Specification, page 118

With more clock buffers instead of gaters in the clock distribution, the power is significantly reduced based on Table 4-4.

Patrick Lee, Introduction to Low-Power Design in VLSIs (page 125)

A mechanism that saves power in a circuit by removing the clock signal while the circuit is not in use.


Unix time

A system for describing instants in time, defined as the number of seconds that have elapsed since 00:00:00 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), Thursday, 1 January 1970, not counting leap seconds, used in Unix and many other operating systems.


unpremultiply

en-verb

unpremultiply (third-person singular simple present unpremultiplies, present participle unpremultiplying, simple past and past participle unpremultiplied)

unpremultiplies (present singular third-person)
unpremultiplying (participle present)
unpremultiplied (participle past)
unpremultiplied (past)

(computer graphics) To divide a premultiplied matrix by a preceding factor noncommutatively


moneyhatting

This practice of "moneyhatting" that Micro$not has brought to the console video game business is just more corruption that harms the whole video game industry with nothing positive coming out of it except buying a little more time for the xflop 3-shitty before it dies.

2007, RMZ, “Re: EGM confirms Micro$hit paid bribe to 2K Games to keep Bioshock off PS3”, in alt.games.video.xbox (Usenet)

I think it's great that the consoles are getting this stuff, but it just serves to make them even less relevant to people with alternatives. That said, while the AAA moneyhatting seems to have waned a fair bit this generation, it's being replaced with a trend of tying up cool looking, ostensibly PC titles with exclusivity contracts […]

2014, hurricanepilot, “Re: PWB, has it come to this?”, in uk.games.video.misc (Usenet)

(slang, derogatory, video games) The use of unfair financial incentives; bribery.


diamond-square algorithm

the diamond-square algorithm (canonical)

(computer graphics) An algorithm for generating heightmaps. It starts with a two-dimensional grid and then randomly generates terrain height from four seed values arranged in a grid of points so that the entire plane is covered in squares.


ODM

(software) Initialism of OpenDocument Master (a computer file type)

(software) Initialism of OverDrive Media (a computer file type)


Polybius square

en-noun

Polybius square (plural Polybius squares)

From Polybius + square (“grid”). It was invented by the Ancient Greek historian and scholar Polybius.

(cryptography) A grid used for fractionating plaintext characters so that they can be represented by a smaller set of symbols.


LWUIT

Lightweight User Interface Toolkit
w:Lightweight User Interface Toolkit

(computing) Initialism of Lightweight User Interface Toolkit. (toolkit for cross-platform app development)


dogcow

As all Mac wizards know, "moof" is the preferred statement for dogcows.

Although all dogcows look the same, this is probably the very one that appeared in that stack, in which case his name is Clarus.

1994, Sharon Zardetto Aker, The Mac almanac, page 469

Mac creators dropped the dogcow in later OS versions, but online petitions and press coverage designed to "bring back the dogcow" have made Apple executives aware of the tremendous cult following of this hybrid icon.

2002, Erin Jansen, Vincent James, NetLingo: The Internet Dictionary, page 138

(computing, slang) A creature resembling a dog and a cow, used as a placeholder image in early Macintosh operating systems.


generify

en-verb

generify (third-person singular simple present generifies, present participle generifying, simple past and past participle generified)

generifies (present singular third-person)
generifying (participle present)
generified (participle past)
generified (past)


unshar

unshar (third-person singular simple present unshars, present participle unsharring, simple past and past participle unsharred)

unshars (present singular third-person)
unsharring (participle present)
unsharred (participle past)
unsharred (past)

(computing, Unix) To extract data from a file in the shar (shell archive) format.


hotlapping

(video games) Driving laps around a circuit alone, without the presence of any competing vehicles.


watchdog timer

An electronic or software timer used to detect and recover from computer malfunctions by generating a timeout signal if it is not periodically reset by the system.


gatewaying

(computing, networking) The action or use of a gateway or access point; the connection or transmission using one or more gateways.


self-documenting

(computing, programming, of source code) Written and structured in such a way that it can be understood without consulting separate documentation.


n/t

(Internet, initialism) no text; used as the body of a forum message where the title contains all that the poster wishes to say


critical exponent

en-noun

critical exponent (plural critical exponents)

The critical exponent of "Mississippi" is 7/3, as it contains the string "ississi", which is of length 7 and period 3.

(mathematics, computing theory) The greatest number of times that a contiguous subsequence can be repeated.


retweeter

According to Stewart's analysis, current case law makes it unlikely a retweeter would be held liable for a defamatory retweet […]

2013, Daxton Stewart, Social Media and the Law, page 42


Otway-Rees protocol

Named after D. Otway and O. Rees, who developed it.

(computing) A network authentication protocol allowing individuals communicating over an insecure network to prove their identity to each other while also preventing eavesdropping and replay attacks and allowing for the detection of modification.


$DEITY

From the syntax of environment variables in Unix shells, and the practice of putting paths to user's software of choice in generically named variables like EDITOR or PAGER.

No real init that actually works the way it's supposed to. No snoop. No truss/strace. The whole stupid application install method with it's /opt /etc/opt/, /var/opt, /tmp/var/etc/opt $DEITY dammit!

2000, Justin Warren, “Re: newbie learns an arcane command”, in alt.sysadmin.recovery (Usenet)

For $DEITY's sake, stop `digesting' each other and advocate something useful!

2000, 2:1, “Re: Malloy digest”, in comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy (Usenet)

Thank $DEITIES for Open Source!

2015 March 30, Daniel James, “Re: [anti-topic] rant, idiots should probably avoid”, in comp.mobile.android (Usenet)

(computing slang, humorous) A generic deity; the listener's or reader's god of choice.


seckill

en-verb

seckill (third-person singular simple present seckills, present participle seckilling, simple past and past participle seckilled)

seckills (present singular third-person)
seckilling (participle present)
seckilled (participle past)
seckilled (past)

(online gaming, slang) to kill an enemy within seconds


autoaway

You should notice that the whole session is reproduced, and nobody ever noticed you were away (unless you enabled the autoaway module).

2004, Paul Mutton, IRC Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools, page 382

Also, ERC, like Emacs, is extremely modular and flexible. It is, of course, a free software program, but there are also many existing modules from nick highlighting to autoaway that you can use.

2014, Josh Datko, BeagleBone for Secret Agents

(computing) An instant messaging feature that automatically marks a user as being away if the user does not interact with the computer or device in a set period of time.


sidegrade

(computing) A form of upgrade involving a switch to a different but equivalent product, e.g. another manufacturer or another operating system.


sidegrade

sidegrade (third-person singular simple present sidegrades, present participle sidegrading, simple past and past participle sidegraded)

sidegrades (present singular third-person)
sidegrading (participle present)
sidegraded (participle past)
sidegraded (past)

(computing, transitive, intransitive) To switch to a different but equivalent product.


bogotify

bogotify (third-person singular simple present bogotifies, present participle bogotifying, simple past and past participle bogotified)

bogotifies (present singular third-person)
bogotifying (participle present)
bogotified (participle past)
bogotified (past)

You little muSoft goons should learn about FAQs before you bogotify yourselves in front of large audiences.

1996, Jonny Llama, “Re: New hacker”, in alt.hacker (Usenet)

In theory, this might bogotify the end-of-tape detection (and dump's prompting for a new tape), but in practice the end-of-tape signalling of the st(4) driver is broken anyway.

1998 March 15, J Wunsch, “Re: CTT8000-S problems solved”, in mpc.lists.freebsd.scsi (Usenet)

It was a quick fix for the author's Ali motherboard or BIOS but it is obviously wrong in general since it bogotifies the comment preceding it (the point of the "generic" support is to assume that everything is already set up correctly; any hardware programming risks disturbing the setup).

1999 July 24, Nick Hibma, “kern/8875: Patch to allow DMA IDE with generic chipset + UDMA drives (fwd)”, in muc.lists.freebsd.bugs (Usenet)

SA9 Deluxe's screens and printed output were so ugly and the lack of backward compatibility with SA8 and before bogotified it so thoroughly that I sent it back for a refund, and got SA9 non-deluxe instead.

2002 January 23, John Wilson, “Re: Street Atlas 9.0 colors”, in misc.transport.rail.americas (Usenet)

(computing, slang, transitive) To make bogus, incorrect, or broken.


chroot

chroot (third-person singular simple present chroots, present participle chrooting, simple past and past participle chrooted)

chroots (present singular third-person)
chrooting (participle present)
chrooted (participle past)
chrooted (past)

From the name of the Unix command, short for “change root”.

Running a server in a chrooted environment greatly enhances overall system security on a Unix system.

2004, Jeremy D. Zawodny, Derek J. Balling, High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, Replication, Load Balancing & More, O'Reilly, page 235

(computing, Unix) To change the apparent root directory for a running process, affecting whether or not it can access certain files etc.


medkit

(usually science fiction, video games) A small bag or case containing medical supplies


LoL

(video games) Initialism of League of Legends.


SMAC

en-noun

SMAC (countable and uncountable, plural SMACs)

(computing, uncountable) social, mobile, analytics, cloud: a group of technologies


subinstruction

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


cukup

From Malay cukup (“enough”), coined by e-sports athletes in Malaysia and Singapore when competing with each other in e-sports matches.

(video games, Malaysia, Singapore) Abbreviation of choose your kit and level up or choose your kit and upgrade


superpipelining

(computing) A technique for improving the performance of a processor by splitting instructions into many separate "pipelines" that can be executed more or less in parallel.


suboperation

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


synflood

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

(Internet) A denial-of-service attack in which the attacker sends a succession of SYN (synchronization) requests to the target system in an attempt to consume its resources and make the system unresponsive to legitimate traffic.


synflood

en-verb

synflood (third-person singular simple present synfloods, present participle synflooding, simple past and past participle synflooded)

synfloods (present singular third-person)
synflooding (participle present)
synflooded (participle past)
synflooded (past)

(Internet) To carry out an attack of this kind.


live-tweet

live-tweet (third-person singular simple present live-tweets, present participle live-tweeting, simple past and past participle live-tweeted)

live-tweets (present singular third-person)
live-tweeting (participle present)
live-tweeted (participle past)
live-tweeted (past)

Or maybe, like Stern, you can live-tweet comments about a television show as it is broadcast.

2011, David Meerman Scott, The New Rules of Marketing & PR: How to Use Social Media, Online Video, Mobile Applications, Blogs, News Releases, and Viral Marketing to Reach Buyers Directly, John Wiley & Sons

Realizing the need he had discovered—no record of the General Assembly's proceedings had to that point existed on Twitter—he returned the next night to live-tweet the whole event.

2011, Writers for the 99%, Occupying Wall Street: The Inside Story of an Action that Changed America, OR Books, page 84

We weren't planning to live-tweet the birth, but we felt in that moment that we needed the power of prayer.

2013, Kelsey Williams, “Rooney's Birth Story”, in Parenting, Uncensored: Straight Talk from Real Moms on Giving Birth

He dreams of Mars as he bestrides Earth, square-jawed and indomitable. Lately, Elon Musk also likes to live-tweet his poops.

December 13 2021, Molly Ball, Jeffrey Kluger, Alejandro de la Garza, “Elon Musk: Person of the Year 2021”, in Time Magazine

(Internet) To provide real-time updates or commentary on an event in progress through Twitter posts.


pass-and-play

[…] and multiplayer games can be conducted online (with push notifications announcing updates) or in the same physical place using pass-and-play turns.

2011, Glenn Fleishman, Five-Star Apps: The Best iPhone and iPad Apps for Work and Play, Peachpit Press

With all that said, you should be ready to create the “Pass and Play” version of Tic-Tac-Toe.

2012, Patrick Alessi, Beginning iOS Game Development, John Wiley & Sons

Days of Wonder emphasizes pass-and-play over mobile/social multiplayer because they want their games to feel like board games no matter what platform they are for.

2012, Scott Rogers, Swipe This!: The Guide to Great Touchscreen Game Design, John Wiley & Sons (2012), unnumbered page 232

(video games) Capable of being played by more than one player by physically passing the device or controller to each player on his or her turn.


Nagle's algorithm

(Internet) An algorithm for improving the efficiency of a network by combining a number of small packets, or messages, and later sending them in a single operation.


spinlock

(programming) A lock which causes a thread trying to acquire it simply to wait in a loop ("spin") while repeatedly checking if the lock is available.


spinlock

spinlock (third-person singular simple present spinlocks, present participle spinlocking, simple past and past participle spinlocked)

spinlocks (present singular third-person)
spinlocking (participle present)
spinlocked (participle past)
spinlocked (past)


depacker

(computing) A software program that decompresses code or data.


depack

depack (third-person singular simple present depacks, present participle depacking, simple past and past participle depacked)

depacks (present singular third-person)
depacking (participle present)
depacked (participle past)
depacked (past)

(transitive, computing) To decompress (data).


decruncher

(computing) A program or algorithm that performs decrunching.


Wikidata

A free-content, multilingual, online knowledge base and wiki run by the Wikimedia Foundation.


pseudointerface

In IPv4, the node has a single node address, but in IPv6, a node will typically have more than one IPv6 address — one for the physical interface and addresses for the virtual or pseudointerfaces as well.

2011, William Panek, MCTS: Windows Server 2008 R2 Complete Study Guide

(computing) A software component that acts like a network interface but is not a true interface.


pretty-printer

(computing) A computer program that performs pretty-printing.


Poké-

Pertaining to Pokémon or the Pokémon media franchise.


datenkraken

Borrowed from German Datenkraken, plural of Datenkrake, itself a compound of Daten (“data”) and Krake (“octopus”), invoking an imagery of such a company being an octopus having its virtual "tentacles" deeply penetrating its users' online habits.

It is a narrative that has cast the American datenkraken as the arch enemy.

2014, Juliette Garside, The Guardian., Europe gears up to fight back against giant US beasts of the internet

(derogatory) Internet-oriented companies that have a large number of users and possess detailed personal information on them, presumably without their consent.


Cohen-Sutherland algorithm

The algorithm was developed in 1967 during flight simulator work by Danny Cohen and Ivan Sutherland.

(computer graphics) An algorithm used for line clipping. It divides a two-dimensional space into nine regions (or a three-dimensional space into 27 regions), and then efficiently determines the lines and portions of lines that are visible in the central region, or viewport.


outcode

Cohen-Sutherland algorithm
Cohen-Sutherland algorithm

(computer graphics) A code used in the Cohen-Sutherland algorithm, indicating how a line should be clipped relative to the viewport.


e-gold

From e- + gold, originally the name of an Internet company that operated from 1996 to 2009.

My personal view on e-gold, e-bullion, or whatever you want to call it is simply: Don't.

2009, Sean Brodrick, The Ultimate Suburban Survivalist Guide

Operated from the United States, the e-gold system allowed anyone anywhere in the world to open accounts […]

2014, Philip Mullan, The Digital Currency Challenge

The holder or recipient of an e-gold currency could do whatever they want with the currency—it could be traded further […]

2014, Daniel Adeoyé Leslie, Legal Principles for Combatting Cyberlaundering

(finance) gold traded over the Internet.


Kleene operator

en-noun

Kleene operator (plural Kleene operators)


desklet

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


respring

en-verb

respring (third-person singular simple present resprings, present participle respringing, simple past resprang or resprung, past participle resprung)

resprings (present singular third-person)
respringing (participle present)
resprang (past)
resprung (past)
resprung (participle past)

(transitive, computing) To restart SpringBoard on (a mobile device running iOS) without rebooting the device.


HCF

Halt and Catch Fire
w:Halt and Catch Fire (computing)

(computing, humorous) Initialism of Halt and Catch Fire (an instruction that locks up a processor).


Langton's ant

A simulated ant, part of a cellular automaton with simple rules but complicated emergent behaviour. The ant traverses a square lattice of cells, changing their colours and its direction as it passes over them.


tabbable

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(computing, graphical user interface) Capable of being navigated or focused by means of the Tab key.


nom de clavier

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Rho9998-nom de clavier.wav

Coined in English from French nom (“name”) + de (“of”) + clavier (“keyboard”), by analogy with nom de plume.

Then we have people who use a nom de clavier, but whose real names are known to many of us.

2002 September 18, Padraig Breathnach, “Re: Introducing myself”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet)

So is Whet Moser simply a nom de clavier? There seems to be a real Marooner by that name (different bio from Mo's).

2003 April 21, Michael Dix, “Re: Sox fans just bloodthirsty?”, in chi.general (Usenet)

In fact, Dejagoogle finds 27 hits with me posting under that nom de clavier between November 2001 and December 2002.

2004 February 20, Bob Cunningham, “Re: The business of America is Halliburton”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet)

(Internet, humorous) A pseudonym used in online communications; a handle.


vidya

Humorous alteration of video. Originates from the 1990s American sitcom King of the Hill. American regional usage far precedes this.

There are a hundred angles to this issue and the criticism has been noted since video games first saw the light of day. However, I've never really examined the question: is "the vidya" bad for you?

2009, Kyle Calvert, "The Root of all evil?", Rampage (Fresno City College) Volume 117, Edition 6, 15 April 2009, page 13

Quinnae Moongazer, a pizza loving feminist sociologist and amateur slug herder, spends her time writing about feminism, transgender politics, and the vidya.

2012 August, “No More Excuses: 'It's The Middle Ages, Yo!'”, in Ctrl+Alt+Defeat, number 8, page 53

The site We Hunted The Mammoth scoured the full transcript released by 4chan, turning up gems from some anons like, "i couldnt care less about vidya, i just want to see zoe receive her comeuppance."

2014 September 10, Casey Johnston, “How 4chan manufactured the #GamerGate controversy”, in Wired


UIID

(computing) Initialism of unique instrument interface document.


platform-independent

en-adj

platform-independent (comparative more platform-independent, superlative most platform-independent)

more platform-independent (comparative)
most platform-independent (superlative)

(computing) Of computer software or computing methods and concepts: implemented such that they can operate on any of various computer platforms.


arcadey

arcadey (comparative more arcadey, superlative most arcadey)

more arcadey (comparative)
most arcadey (superlative)

Hewson maintains its high standards with this rootin', tootin', killin', maimin', shoot 'em up. Not to be missed by arcadey types.

1989, Sean Kelly, Eliminator (video game review) in Your Sinclair 41, May 1989

GameAxis Unwired
Fans of arcadey sports titles (like the ones I mentioned above) will be in heaven, as despite its cutesy trappings, Mario Strikers adheres pretty much to Midway's proven gonzo sports formula.

(video games, informal) Characteristic of an arcade game, generally focused on action rather than strategy or realism.


MOM

message-oriented middleware
message-oriented middleware#English

(hardware, software) Initialism of message-oriented middleware (hardware or software infrastructure supporting sending and receiving of messages between distributed systems.)


message-oriented middleware

(computing) Hardware or software infrastructure supporting sending and receiving of messages between distributed systems


message-oriented

message-oriented (comparative more message-oriented, superlative most message-oriented)

more message-oriented (comparative)
most message-oriented (superlative)

(computing) Depending mainly on messaging.


Vimean

A place for Vimeans to post horror or thriller movies they like or created!

(Internet, neologism) A user of the video-sharing web site Vimeo.


visitors' book

(Internet) A feature of a website performing a similar function to a written guest book.


trollbuddy

"Oh, look, everyone -- our friend Gabe must've persuaded one of his trollbuddies over on alt.flame to drop by, after all!"

1998 November 25, Pat Knight, “Re: A rant”, in alt.callahans (Usenet)

Why should I, you and your sicko trollbuddies Riddles and BingoTroll do such a good job jamming up alt.cats with lies on your own.

2002 May 17, Bob Brenchley, “Re: Animal Abuse”, in alt.cats (Usenet)

Sometimes they have 2 or 3 flamers suddenly on a board...all beginning at the same time, often supporting the other screenname...too stupid to know people will know they are one person or trollbuddies.

2002 June 30, !PowerUser! [username], “Re: I LOVE WINDOWS, I LOVE WINDOWS!!!!!”, in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general (Usenet)

(Internet) A person with whom one trolls or a fellow troll on a particular message board, newsgroup, etc.


Twittermob

We live in an age when the old media claim to be the voices of calmness and reason amid the storm, comparing themselves favourably with the lawless frontier towns and torch-wielding Twittermobs of social media.

2011 July 30, Steven Baxter, “The press will not learn from the Chris Jefferies case”, in New Statesman

What is it about the era we live in that means these kind of Twittermobs can emerge with such speed and ferocity?

2012 April 3, Brendan O'Neill, “The Twitterstorm against Samantha Brick is infinitely uglier and nastier than the article she wrote”, in The Telegraph

2012, David Banks, "How do you prosecute a Twittermob?", 26 April 2012 (used in title only)

(usually derogatory) A group of Twitter users targetting an issue or individual, especially one that forms suddenly and is viewed as hostile.


twoosh

Intentionally trying to write a twoosh is almost as challenging as writing haiku, although twooshes do frequently occur on their own!

2010, Hollis Thomases, Twitter Marketing: An Hour a Day, Wiley Publishing, page 21

On Friday, the administration also released some behind-the-scenes footage. It shows an aide, deputy director for online outreach Kori Schulman, complimenting the president for what she calls a “twoosh," or a perfect, 140-character tweet (a Twitter swoosh).
"Are you proud of me?" he asks.
“It was a record for twooshes," Schulman says.
"I'm the twoosh master," Obama says.

2012 May 25, Michael A. Memoli, “Obama declares himself a 'master tweeter'”, in Los Angeles Times

5 a.m. Dubuque time: "Dear friends, I am pleased to get in touch with you through Twitter. Thank you for your generous response. I bless all of you from my heart." It was a twoosh, a Twitter term for a tweet of exactly 140 characters.

2012 December 13, Jim Winter, “OMG! Pope Sends Tweet”, in Telegraph-Herald

(Internet, slang) A tweet which exactly meets the 280-character (previously 140) limit set by microblogging service Twitter.


hotplug

en-verb

hotplug (third-person singular simple present hotplugs, present participle hotplugging, simple past and past participle hotplugged)

hotplugs (present singular third-person)
hotplugging (participle present)
hotplugged (participle past)
hotplugged (past)

(transitive, computing) To plug in (a device) while the system is turned on and running.


lazyload

lazyload (third-person singular simple present lazyloads, present participle lazyloading, simple past and past participle lazyloaded)

lazyloads (present singular third-person)
lazyloading (participle present)
lazyloaded (participle past)
lazyloaded (past)

(computing, transitive) To load (data) only at the point where it is needed.


kiddiot

(computing, slang, derogatory) script kiddie


Gutmann method

Devised by Peter Gutmann and Colin Plumb.

(computing) An algorithm for securely erasing the contents of a hard drive by writing a number of different patterns over the existing data.


MIF

(Adobe, software) Initialism of Maker Interchange Format (proprietary markup language associated with Adobe Systems' FrameMaker product)


AJAJ

(computing) Initialism of asynchronous JavaScript and JSON (a data model for authoring and publishing that followed AJAX)


DITA

(Internet) Initialism of Darwin Information Typing Architecture (an XML data model for authoring and publishing)