perceptronium

Coined by the physicist Max Tegmark, from perceptron + -ium.

Max Tegmark, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Physics (he also spoke at the New York event), has proposed that there is a state of matter — like solid, liquid and gas — that he calls perceptronium: atoms arranged so they can process information and give rise to subjectivity.

2016 July 4, George Johnson, “Consciousness: The Mind Messing With the Mind”, in New York Times

A hypothetical state of matter capable of giving rise to self-awareness and subjectivity.


aggregate function

en-noun

aggregate function (plural aggregate functions)

(databases) A function that takes input from various rows at once and returns a single value.


soft deletion

soft deletion (countable and uncountable, plural soft deletions)

(databases) An operation in which a flag is used to mark data as unusable, without erasing the data itself from the database.


hard deletion

hard deletion (countable and uncountable, plural hard deletions)

(databases) An operation in which data is erased from the database (as opposed to a soft deletion).


cross-site request forgery

cross-site request forgery (countable and uncountable, plural cross-site request forgeries)

(computer security) An exploit of a website where unauthorized commands are transmitted from a user that the website trusts.


dangling pointer

dangling pointer (plural dangling pointers)

(programming) A pointer (variable that holds the address of a memory location) that does not reference a valid object.

ponteiro pendente

pointer that does not reference a valid object


retopologize

en-verb

retopologize (third-person singular simple present retopologizes, present participle retopologizing, simple past and past participle retopologized)

retopologizes (present singular third-person)
retopologizing (participle present)
retopologized (participle past)
retopologized (past)

(transitive, computer graphics) To redefine the mesh of a 3D model at a lower resolution


eager load

eager load (third-person singular simple present eager loads, present participle eager loading, simple past and past participle eager loaded)

eager loads (present singular third-person)
eager loading (participle present)
eager loaded (participle past)
eager loaded (past)

(programming, databases) To fetch data as early as possible, before it used.


hitscan

With this code the server now has enough information to perform hitscans: it has the position of the player, the player orientation, and the player look direction (camera rotation).

2013, Alan R. Stagner, Unity Multiplayer Games

Duel maps usually do not contain super weapons (eg, the Redeemer which fires a small nuclear warhead), but have one or two hitscan weapons (which when fired instantly hit whatever they are pointing at) and one or two projectile weapons (eg, a rocket launcher).

2014, L. Galli, P. L. Lanzi, D. Loiacono, Applying data mining to extract design patterns from Unreal Tournament levels

(computing, video games) A calculation to find the point at which a given line intersects an object in the game world, commonly used to determine whether a bullet or projectile hits a target.


lazy load

lazy load (third-person singular simple present lazy loads, present participle lazy loading, simple past and past participle lazy loaded)

lazy loads (present singular third-person)
lazy loading (participle present)
lazy loaded (participle past)
lazy loaded (past)

Collection-valued relationships lazy load by default, so the EAGER fetch type must be explicitly applied to those mappings if eager loading is desired.

2006, Mike Keith, Merrick Schincariol, Pro EJB 3: Java Persistence API, Apress, page 151

(programming, databases) To fetch data only when it is absolutely required.


snake case

Coined in 2004 by Ruby programmer Gavin Kistner, from its resemblance to the long body of a snake, and by analogy with other naming schemes based on lower- and upper-case letters.

Some evidence shows that coders are better able to read code (their code and code written by others) when using snake_case, not camelCase naming.

2018, Camille McCue, Sarah Guthals, Helping Kids with Coding For Dummies®, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., page 130

While both camelCase and snake_case are perfectly valid syntax in Java, the development community functions better when everyone adopts the same style convention.

2020, Jeanne Boyarsky, Scott Selikoff, OCP Oracle Certified Professional Java SE 11 Programmer I: Study Guide, Exam 1Z0-815, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., page 49

We were incorporating third-party Python libraries for some of our projects, leading to a mix within our codebase of our own CamelCase format with the externally preferred snake_case style.

2020, Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, Hyrum Wright, Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time, O’Reilly Media, Inc.

(programming) The practice of writing identifiers using underscores to separate words.


unassociate

unassociate (third-person singular simple present unassociates, present participle unassociating, simple past and past participle unassociated)

unassociates (present singular third-person)
unassociating (participle present)
unassociated (participle past)
unassociated (past)

(chiefly computing) To remove an association (of e.g. a computer with a network, or a file type with an application program); to disassociate.


(video games) Abbreviation of Nintendo 64.


MLP

multilayer perceptron
multilayer perceptron#English

(machine learning) Initialism of multilayer perceptron.


(video games) Initialism of PlayStation 4.


Karp-reducible

(computing theory) Capable of undergoing Karp reduction.


Karp reduction

en-noun

Karp reduction (countable and uncountable, plural Karp reductions)

(computing theory) A polynomial-time algorithm for transforming inputs to one problem into inputs to another problem, such that the transformed problem has the same output as the original.


Multician

From Multics + -ian; coined at Honeywell around the 1970s, according to the Jargon File.

(computing, slang) A competent user of Multics.


space-cadet keyboard

space-cadet keyboard (plural space-cadet keyboards)

(computing) A style of computer keyboard, traditionally used on MIT Lisp machines, equipped with seven modifier keys and three shift keys, arranged to facilitate chording.


Rule 110

The binary number sequence 01101110, summarising the rule, is equivalent to the decimal number 110. This is the rule's Wolfram code.

(cellular automata) A simple cellular automaton, unusual in being Turing-complete, where each cell's value changes depending on its current value and those of two neighbouring cells.


shotgun debugging

(computing, slang) A poorly-directed form of debugging, making various experimental changes to the source code in the hope that one of them will eventually fix the problem.


sharebait

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

af

Forget click-bait. We’re living in the world of share-bait now.

2014, Caitlin Dewey, The Washington Post

Among the many phenomena we’d tentatively attribute, in large part, to the trend: the rise of sharebait (nee clickbait) and the general BuzzFeedification of traditional media; the Internet hoax-industrial complex, which only seems to be growing stronger; and the utter lack of intelligent online discourse around any remotely complicated, controversial topic.

2016, Caitlin Dewey, The Washington Post

(Internet, informal, derogatory) Website content that exists only to be shared, aimed at generating advertising revenue, especially at the expense of quality or accuracy, relying on sensationalist headlines to attract click-throughs.


TIP

w:Plane (Unicode)#Tertiary Ideographic Plane

(computing) Initialism of Tertiary Ideographic Plane, the fourth 65,536-codepoint plane in Unicode (from U+30000 through U+3FFFF).


Euler line

Named for Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler.

Theorem 2.1 A connected graph with even local degrees has an Euler line.

1961, Yale University, Graphs and Their Uses, page 25

In defining an Euler graph, some authors drop the requirement that the Euler line be closed.

2009, J. P. Chauhan, Krishna's Applied Discrete Mathematics, page 279

Euler lines mainly deal with the nature of connectivity in graphs. The concept of an Euler line is used to solve several puzzles and games.[…]A closed walk running through every edge of the graph G exactly once is called an Euler line.

2013, Bhavanari Satyanarayana, Kuncham Syam Prasad, Near Rings, Fuzzy Ideals, and Graph Theory, page 372

(graph theory) An Eulerian path, a looped path through a graph that passes along every edge exactly once.


NSWBC

(computing) Initialism of National Security Whistleblowers Coalition


WoW

(video games) Initialism of World of Warcraft.

(computing, software) Initialism of Windows on Windows.


Pokémon Goer

Pokémon Goers were invited to enter the museum at a discounted rate and search for Pokémon characters.

2016 July 19, Kora Chrzan, “Pokémon Go takes off in the Ozarks”, in Branson Tri-Lakes News

A Pokémon Goer is on the app for an average of 26 minutes,

2016 August 29, Ricardo Casas, “Catching Customers: Pokémon Go and the Future of Local Advertising”, in Business

Getting into the theme of love, perhaps the most exciting thing for Pokémon Goers is a huge increase in the duration of lures: the Pokémon-attracting devices will now last a whole six hours, 12 times longer than their standard 30-minute duration.

2017 February 8, Alex Hern, “Pokémon Go launches Valentine's event hoping to lure loving players”, in The Guardian

Pokémon Goers explore White Sands National Monument

2017 April 7, Tara Melton, “White Sands celebrates historic visitation numbers”, in Alamogordo Daily News

Brace yourselves, Pokémon Goers - Legendary Pokémon Raikou, Entei, and Suicune are coming your way!

2017 September 4, Vikki Blake, “Here's How To Catch Pokemon Go's Three New Legendary Pokemon”, in MTV UK


SQLi

(computer security) Initialism of SQL injection.


refcount

(programming) A counter variable that keeps track of the number of references to a specific block of memory.


privilege escalation

en-noun

privilege escalation (countable and uncountable, plural privilege escalations)

(computer security) The use of an exploit to gain elevated access to resources that are normally protected from an application or user.


VLDB

(databases) Initialism of very large database.


fat arrow

From fat + arrow, because of its thickness compared to ->.

The fat arrow is a new shorter way to write functions using '=>' instead of 'function() {}', and will look familiar to anyone who has used CoffeeScript.

2013, Mark E. Daggett, Expert JavaScript, page 39

A constant can't be used on the left-hand side of a fat arrow (=>) because that turns it into a string.

2013, Peter Scott, Perl Medic: Transforming Legacy Code, page 78

(computing) The => symbol, which has specific meanings in various programming languages.


autocategorization

(computing, chiefly US) Automatic categorization.


autocategorize

en-verb

autocategorize (third-person singular simple present autocategorizes, present participle autocategorizing, simple past and past participle autocategorized)

autocategorizes (present singular third-person)
autocategorizing (participle present)
autocategorized (participle past)
autocategorized (past)

(computing, rare, chiefly US) To automatically categorize.


autoclassify

autoclassify (third-person singular simple present autoclassifies, present participle autoclassifying, simple past and past participle autoclassified)

autoclassifies (present singular third-person)
autoclassifying (participle present)
autoclassified (participle past)
autoclassified (past)


autoclassifier

(computing) Something that autoclassifies.


Ubuntard

(slang, derogatory) A user of the Ubuntu Linux operating system.


XBL

(computing) Initialism of XML binding language: an XML-based markup language used to define the behaviour and appearance of XUL widgets and XML elements.


EVGA

(computer graphics) Extended Video Graphics Array, a computer display standard of the 1990s, supporting non-interlaced graphics at a resolution of 1024×768 pixels.


Porter-Duff compositing

Named after Thomas Porter and Tom Duff, who developed the technique at Lucasfilm.

(computer graphics) A technique for image compositing using an alpha channel.


image histogram

en-noun

image histogram (plural image histograms)

(photography, computer graphics) A histogram that acts as a graphical representation of the tonal distribution in a digital image.


ALG

Application-level gateway
w:Application-level gateway

(computing, networking) Initialism of Application-level gateway.


flameage

In the programming sections of Usenet, case conventions are second only to indentation as a source of pointless erudition and time-wasting flameage.

2004, Elliotte Rusty Harold, Effective XML: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your XML, page 30

(Internet, slang) Alternative form of flamage


usegroup

Alternative letter-case form of Usegroup


cookied

(computing) (of an HTTP request, a transferred file, a user) That has cookies.


Usegroup

A newsgroup, specifically on the Usenet system.


autobox

en-verb

autobox (third-person singular simple present autoboxes, present participle autoboxing, simple past and past participle autoboxed)

autoboxes (present singular third-person)
autoboxing (participle present)
autoboxed (participle past)
autoboxed (past)

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

(transitive, object-oriented programming) To box (a value) automatically (map a primitive data item to a complex object).


subdatasheet

(computing, databases) A datasheet embedded within another datasheet, showing child records relating to a parent table.


dynaset

(computing, databases) A data set taken from a larger database and linked back to it, so that local changes to the data are propagated back to the parent database.


expanded memory

(computing) On x86-compatible PCs, a way to increase available memory beyond the 640 kilobytes usable by DOS, through use of bank switching.


long mode

(computing) An operational mode of x86-64 computers which enables 64-bit addressing, running older 32-bit code in compatibility mode and foregoing support for real-mode applications entirely.


bank switching

(computing) A method to increase the usable memory beyond what the processor normally supports by switching between different areas of memory at runtime.


(computing) A superset of the x86 instruction set architecture, providing additional support for 64-bit addressing while remaining mostly backward compatible with older applications.


The Xs stand for explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate

(gaming) genre of strategy game in which the player attempts to grow an empire.


long polling

(computing) A technology where the client requests information from the server without expecting an immediate response.


untaint

untaint (third-person singular simple present untaints, present participle untainting, simple past and past participle untainted)

untaints (present singular third-person)
untainting (participle present)
untainted (participle past)
untainted (past)

(transitive, computing, programming) To mark (a previously tainted variable) as safe.


untrace

untrace (third-person singular simple present untraces, present participle untracing, simple past and past participle untraced)

untraces (present singular third-person)
untracing (participle present)
untraced (participle past)
untraced (past)

It is important to untrace a function before modifying its definition, since some tools may not be smart enough to realize that the version of reScale on the session frame is only for debugging!

1998, John M. Chambers, Programming with Data: A Guide to the S Language, page 268

(computing, programming, transitive) To remove a trace from.


nonleaf

(computing theory) A node in a data structure that is not a leaf node.


binary search

en-noun

binary search (countable and uncountable, plural binary searches)

(computing theory) A search for a value within a sorted array by repeatedly comparing the target value with the middle element; if they are unequal, the half in which the target cannot lie is eliminated and the comparison is repeated on the remaining half.


VCPI

Virtual Control Program Interface
w:Virtual Control Program Interface

(computing) Initialism of Virtual Control Program Interface.


Eurocard

printed circuit board
printed circuit board

(computing) A printed circuit board card in a standard European format, designed to plug into a standardized subrack.


RTC

(computing) Initialism of rational team concert.

(computing) Initialism of real-time computing.

(computing) Initialism of real-time control.


office suite

(software) A bundle of applications intended to be used together for productivity purposes, such as a word processor, a spreadsheet, a presentation program, a database etc.


unaddress

en-verb

unaddress (third-person singular simple present unaddresses, present participle unaddressing, simple past and past participle unaddressed)

unaddresses (present singular third-person)
unaddressing (participle present)
unaddressed (participle past)
unaddressed (past)

The computer unaddresses the DVM as a listener, and remains a talker.

1992, Peter H. Sydenham, R. Thorn, Handbook of measurement science: Volume 3, Elements of change

The function ibrd automatically addresses a device as a talker before the device sends data and unaddresses the device afterward.

1995, IEEE Proceedings of the Southeastcon

(computing, transitive) To delete or forget the address of some entity.


Eevolution

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Eevolution.


ajaxification

(programming) The use of Ajax in JavaScript source code.


IaaS

(computing) Acronym of Infrastructure as a Service.


PaaS

The application components all run in containers. They are isolated like VMs but lightweight and efficient like PaaS services.

2020, Elton Stoneman, chapter 1, in Learn Docker in a Month of Lunches

(computing) Acronym of Platform as a Service.


regex golf

computer programming
computer programming

A recreational computer programming competition in which participants attempt to devise the shortest possible regular expression that will match a given set of text strings.


MV*

software architecture
software architecture

(software architecture) Any of various software design approaches involving a model and a view, such as MVC, MVP, or MVVM.


block comment

(programming) A comment in source code that occupies several consecutive lines.


IFTTT

(Internet) Initialism of If This Then That (a Web-based service allowing users to configure one program or service to do something in response to events in another program or service)


POCO

en-noun

POCO (countable and uncountable, plural POCOs)

plain old CLR object
w:plain old CLR object

(countable, object-oriented software) Acronym of plain old CLR object.


undef

(programming) Abbreviation of undefined.


MoE

GLaM [51] is an autoregressive mixture-of-experts (MoE) model with up to 1200B parameters.

2023, Gerhard Paaß, Sven Giesselbach, Foundation Models for Natural Language Processing: Pre-trained Language Models Integrating Media, Springer Nature, page 130

(machine learning) Initialism of mixture of experts.


O/RM

(object-oriented programming, databases) Alternative form of ORM


domain-specific

en-adj

domain-specific (comparative more domain-specific, superlative most domain-specific)

more domain-specific (comparative)
most domain-specific (superlative)

(computing) dedicated to a particular problem domain, a particular problem representation/solution technique


polyvariadic

5 Typed polyvariadic printf.

2011 November, Kenichi Asai, Oleg Kiselyov, Chung-chieh Shan, “Functional un|unparsing”, in Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation, volume 24, number 4

(computing) Supporting a variable but nonzero number of arguments.


MINASWAN

programming language
programming language

(computing) Initialism of Matz is nice and so we are nice: a motto of the Ruby programming language community, in reference to the demeanor of Yukihiro Matsumoto (nicknamed Matz, born 1965), the Japanese computer scientist who designed the language.


webside manner

Blend of web (“the World Wide Web”) + bedside manner (“ability of a healthcare professional to interact with their patients”).

blend

But more important than the technology, he says, is what clinicians in the field have taken to calling "webside" manner. It's a modern twist on bedside manner—a physician's ability to relate with a patient and convey their desire to help. […] "Look, there's variation whether you see a clinician in person or whether you see them online, so I'm not saying in any way that telemedicine is less helpful than in-person visits, or that webside manner is worse than bedside manner," says UCSF pulmonologist Adams Dudley. "But webside manner definitely requires more cooperation, and a different kind of cooperation, than bedside manner."

2017 October 26, Robbie Gonzalez, “Telemedicine is Forcing Doctors to Learn ‘Webside’ Manner”, in Wired, San Francisco, Calif.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-11-07

In today's digital revolution and growing telehealth practice, good webside manners are equally important during virtual clinical visits. The same principles apply except physically touching the patient is not possible. Most doctors who have good bedside manners will also have equally good webside manners.

2019, “The Science of Medicine and the Art of Bedside Manners: Two Sides of the Same Coin”, in K. K. Pareek, editor, Medicine Update 2019, volume 29, New Delhi, London: Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers, page 1309, column 2

Developing a "webside manner" increasingly is recognized as central to medical education. As it requires a different skill set than in person communication, specific programs are being developed to teach students how to conduct clinical examinations via videoconferencing, monitor data from wearable devices, and understand how to effectively engage patients.

2020, James O. Woolliscroft, “Communication”, in Implementing Biomedical Innovations into Health, Education, and Practice: Preparing Tomorrow’s Physicians, London, San Diego, Calif.: Academic Press, part II (Constants in Medicine), page 64

Webside manners are synonymous with bedside manners and refer to the verbal and nonverbal body language cues utilized during [a] telemedicine patient encounter.

2021, Lakshmi Digala, Garima Singh, Kunal Malhotra, “Webside Manners and Ethical Issues”, in Swathi Beladakere Ramaswamy, Sachin M. Bhagavan, Raghav Govindarajan, editors, Leaning Teleneurology Basics: A Case-based Approach, Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, →DOI, page 55

High-resolution web cameras and other home equipment were provided, and staff were given "webside" manner training.

2021, Don L. Goldenberg, “Telemedicine”, in COVID-19’s Impact on Health and Healthcare Workers, Oxford, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →DOI, page 93

(neologism) The manner in which a healthcare professional interacts with patients remotely in telehealth or telemedicine.


CUD

database management system
database management system

(databases, programming) The basic operations of a database management system; Acronym of create, update, delete.


Hamiltonianness

(graph theory) The property of being Hamiltonian.


FQDN

fully qualified domain name
w:fully qualified domain name

(Internet) Initialism of fully qualified domain name.


metacube

computer architecture
computer architecture

(computing) A kind of computer architecture derived from the hypercube and intended for use with large-scale parallel systems.


voxelscape

Plus, if one of your missiles hits the ground, it can leave a crater by actually modifying the surface voxelscape […]

1997, Sean Puckett, “TumbleBugs Review”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action (Usenet)

I'm trying to write a voxelscape that has free movement i.e. you can rotate the view to any angle […]

1997, Chris Hubball, “voxelscapes”, in comp.graphics.algorithms (Usenet)

(computer graphics) A three-dimensional landscape constructed from voxels.


grindy

en-adj

grindy (comparative more grindy or grindier, superlative most grindy or grindiest)

more grindy (comparative)
grindier (comparative)
most grindy (superlative)
grindiest (superlative)

HGM’s writers have spent time in the grindiest of grindy Korean and Japanese free-to-plays, but Free Realms is something new and different and better.

2009 June, Lynxara [pseudonym; Alicia Ashby], Vivek Varadarajan, “Free Realms”, in Hardcore Gamer Magazine, volume 5, number 1, [Redmond, Wash.]: DoubleJump Publishing, →ISSN, page 12

Greed will get players to do interesting things. They will grind their way through the grindiest MMOs to get that stronger sword, that unique hat, gain that next level.

2010, Scott Rogers, “More Wealth Than You Can Imagine!”, in Level Up! The Guide to Great Video Game Design, Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley, Level 13 (Now You’re Playing with Power), page 365

[T]he student may have sufficient time to spend hours on even the ‘grindiest’ of games or, elsewhere, the mundanities of working life intervene.

2011, Dave Randall, “All in the Game: Families, Peer Groups and Game Playing in the Home”, in Richard Harper, editor, The Connected Home: The Future of Domestic Life, London: Springer, Part II (Experiencing the Connected Home), page 129

Beware, as these achievements can feel “grindy” unless there is a worthwhile reward attached.

2012, Scott Rogers, Swipe This!: The Guide to Great Touchscreen Game Design

Some players seem to think that grindy content has been put in on purpose to pad out play […]

2015, Richard A. Bartle, MMOs from the Inside Out

(video games, informal) Involving a lot of repetition in order to progress.


HKCU

(computing, Microsoft Windows) HKEY_CURRENT_USER, part of the registry containing settings specific to the logged-on user.


WOTD

(chiefly online dictionaries) Initialism of word of the day.


health bar

(video games) A visual display, in bar form, of the energy or health of a character in the game.


multilingualize

en-verb

multilingualize (third-person singular simple present multilingualizes, present participle multilingualizing, simple past and past participle multilingualized)

multilingualizes (present singular third-person)
multilingualizing (participle present)
multilingualized (participle past)
multilingualized (past)

For example, in the case of employing the Language Grid to multilingualize Wikipedia articles, the performance of language services should be given higher priority due to the huge amount of articles and users.

2011, Toru Ishida, The Language Grid: Service-Oriented Collective Intelligence for Language Resource Interoperability

software engineering
software engineering

(chiefly software engineering) To adapt or localize something to, into, or for multiple languages.


INT

en-noun

INT (countable and uncountable, plural INTs)

(programming) Abbreviation of interrupt.


WAR

(computing, Java programming language) Initialism of Web application archive (a Java archive file).


WAR

(computing) Initialism of write after read, a kind of data hazard.


CSRF

CSRF (countable and uncountable, plural CSRFs)

Cross-Site Request Forgery
cross-site request forgery#English

(computer security) Initialism of Cross-Site Request Forgery.


pseudo-English

There is a strong feeling that pseudo-English is more "user friendly" than symbolic notation.

1983, Laurie A. Russell, David M. Weintraub, APL 83, Conference proceedings, Washington, D.C., April 10-13, 1983

The possibility of verbal encoding of mathematical formulas into pseudo-English has deliberately been built into COBOL; for example, "compute velocity times time giving distance" is nothing but syntactic sugar for "distance := velocity · time".

2014, Jenny Cheshire, Dieter Stein, Taming the Vernacular: From Dialect to Written Standard Language

(computing) A structured artificial language that uses English words in order to be more user friendly for English speakers.


zap 'em up

This is not your average 'zap 'em up' game. The alien craft all have different characteristics, and judging a spaceship's speed as you home in for the kill is something you'll get the hang of only after much experience.

1986, Luke C, Battle Of The Planets (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 3

Conversation and camaraderie at the foosball table won out over solo, zap-em-up video games in 1994, according to industry experts.

1994, Night Club & Bar, volume 10, page 388

You can totally be yourself without worrying if your guy is impressed or embarrassed! You don't have to sit through rough war flicks, or shoot 'em up or zap 'em up movies.

2003, Andrea Stephens, Stuff a Girl’s Gotta Know: Little Hints for Big Things in A Teen's Life

(informal, video games) A shoot 'em up involving energy weapons.


over nine thousand

From episode 28 of the anime TV series Dragon Ball Z ("Goku's Arrival", 1997), referring to Goku's increase in power level.

(humorous, Internet slang, idiomatic) off the charts; through the roof (beyond expectations)

List of Dragon Ball Z episodes (season 1)


cow-clicker

Coined by Ian Bogost in response to FarmVille winning an award for "Best New Social/Online Game" at the 2010 Game Developers Choice Awards. The win caused Bogost, a critic of the freemium model used by Zynga, to be struck with the thought: "Games like FarmVille are cow clickers. You click on a cow, and that's all you do." He subsequently developed Cow Clicker, an intentionally simplistic parody game, which itself became a surprise viral hit.

The plan was to offer a much deeper experience than what Farmville and rest of the cow-clickers ever could.

2015, Juho Kuorikoski, Finnish Video Games: A History and Catalog, page 235

(video games, derogatory) A video game that requires the player to perform repetitive tasks at certain intervals.

Cow Clicker
FarmVille
Game Developers Choice Awards
Ian Bogost
Zynga


moveset

Keep in mind that this version is 65% complete, so changes to the movesets and timing are bound to happen until its release in the arcades next April.

2008, GameAxis Unwired, number 62, page 18

Considering the fact that, by definition, you essentially have three movesets per character, the Mascot is easily the best Dressphere in the game due to not only the number of abilities usable, but also the versatility […]

2015, GamerGuides.com, Final Fantasy X-2 HD - Strategy Guide

(video games) The set of moves that a character can perform.


FSAA

(computer graphics) Initialism of full-scene anti-aliasing.


decycle

en-verb

decycle (third-person singular simple present decycles, present participle decycling, simple past and past participle decycled)

decycles (present singular third-person)
decycling (participle present)
decycled (participle past)
decycled (past)

In the decycling phase it removes or redirects some edges until the resulting graph is acyclic.

2009, Ioannis G. Tollis, Maurizio Patrignani, Graph Drawing: 16th International Symposium

(graph theory, transitive) To remove the cycles from.


webware

Because the workflow for database construction, the program pipelines and the post-treatment scripts used by BIBI were extensively changed since the publication of the original paper, we present here a completely new version of this webware called leBIBI QBPP .

2015 August 12, Jean-Pierre Flandrois, Guy Perrière, Manolo Gouy, “leBIBIQBPP: a set of databases and a webtool for automatic phylogenetic analysis of prokaryotic sequences”, in BMC Bioinformatics, volume 16, →DOI

(Internet, computing) software that is accessed online, typically via a browser


T-state

The execution of a microprocessor instruction involves an M1 cycle comprising four T-states and an M2 cycle requiring five T-states.

2012, Mike Tooley, David Wyatt, Aircraft Digital Electronic and Computer Systems, page 86

(computing) A single clock pulse of a microprocessor.


load-and-go

(programming, often attributive) The assembly and loading into memory of a program as a single operation, without generating and saving an intermediate object program.


grab handle

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface) A visual cue indicating where a displayed object can be activated for resizing, etc. using the pointing device.


Herschel graph

From Herschel (“a surname”) + graph, after British astronomer Alexander Stewart Herschel (1836—1907), who identified the associated polyhedron (an enneahedron) as one for which there is no solution to the icosian game.

Select a suitable independent set / and use part (b) to show that the graph in Fig. 11.81 (known as the Herschel graph) has no Hamilton cycle.

1994, Ralph P. Grimaldi, Discrete and Combinatorial Mathematics: An Applied Introduction, page 587

A bipartite graph like the Herschel graph of Figure 9.2 is also non-hamiltonian, but the algorithm is not likely to delete enough vertices to notice that it has a large separating set.

2004, William Kocay, Donald L. Kreher, Graphs, Algorithms, and Optimization, page 202

2006, Michael S. Keane, Dee Denteneer, Frank Hollander, Evgeny Verbitskiy, Dynamics and Stochastics, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Lecture Notes—Monograph Series, Volume 48, page 174,
It is difficult to control what loops may arise: for example the Herschel graph [3] shows that a convex polyhedron need not be Hamiltonian as a graph.

(mathematics, graph theory) A bipartite undirected graph with 11 vertices and 18 edges that is the smallest non-Hamiltonian polyhedral graph.


vertical line

(computing, typography) The vertical bar; |.


hex editor

The only good thing about Solitaire is being able to ruin it with a hex editor so nobody else can play it.

2000 September 18, Maddox (George Ouzounian), I hate Solitaire., retrieved 2016-09-19

(computing) A text editor that allows for manipulation of the fundamental binary data that constitutes a computer file, displayed in hexadecimal format.


OWIN

(.NET, computing) Initialism of Open Web Web Interface for .NET (a runtime and a set of APIs in the .NET Framework used to build connected, service-oriented applications)


CORS

cross-origin resource sharing
w:cross-origin resource sharing

(Internet) Initialism of cross-origin resource sharing, a mechanism that allows restricted resources (e.g. fonts) on a web page to be requested from a different domain.


idle game

A video game whose gameplay consists of the player performing simple actions (such as clicking on the screen) repeatedly in order to progress, usually with additional elements to increase the rate of progress.


premove

Kasparov's loss to Caruana was a tragedy in a winning position. He wanted to trade queens by Qe4-c2, but a mouse slip landed the queen on d3. He tried to drag it to c2, which the computer registered as a premove that fatally lost a bishop. "Computers hate me!" said Kasparov, who famously lost to IBM Deep Blue in 1997.

2020 September 15, Leonard Barden, “Technical hazard trips up Kasparov as Carlsen and Nakamura battle to a tie”, in Financial Times, archived from the original on 2022-12-04

Bortnyk's lead was never really in doubt and he converted game after game with brisk speed as premoves flew across the board by both players. Nothing seemed to click for Robson as even critical premoves seemed all too often to be mistimed: […]

2022 March 11, Anthony Levin, “Bullet Chess Championship Losers Round 2: Bortnyk, Erigaisi, Jacobson, Martinez Advance”, in Chess.com, archived from the original on 2022-03-16

Premove — In online chess games, setting a piece to move automatically after an opponent moves.]

[2022 June 13, Isaac Aronow, “Chess Terms and Vocabulary”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 2023-01-17

(Internet chess) On certain chess websites: a move set during the opponent's turn which is played automatically (if possible) after the opponent has made their move, done in order to save time in predictable positions.


premove

premove (third-person singular simple present premoves, present participle premoving, simple past and past participle premoved)

premoves (present singular third-person)
premoving (participle present)
premoved (participle past)
premoved (past)

Game 18 was another up-and-down affair. First, Esipenko dropped a full rook, which went unpunished as Sarana had probably premoved his reply.

2019 June 12, Peter Doggers, “Junior Speed Chess: Sarana Beats Esipenko”, in Chess.com, archived from the original on 2022-11-08

The second game was drawn. In the third, a bit of drama happened: in a position that was somewhere between equality and a slight advantage to White, Nakamura, by misclicking or premoving or for whatever other reason, hung a piece to a one-move tactic.

2021 October 3, Yuriy Krykun, “Champions Chess Tour Finals Day 1: Carlsen Impressive In Opener”, in Chess.com, archived from the original on 2022-11-27


(speedrunning) A category in speedrunning whose goal is fully completing a game and unlocking all of its features.


keystore

(computing) A storage area for cryptographic keys.


DICaaS

(computing) Acronym of data-intensive computing as a service.


mock out

mock out (third-person singular simple present mocks out, present participle mocking out, simple past and past participle mocked out)

mocks out (present singular third-person)
mocking out (participle present)
mocked out (participle past)
mocked out (past)

Now that we know we have mocked out the objects and verified that the method we expected was called, we are ready to write a unit test.

2011, Scott Millett, Jerrel Blankenship, Matthew Bussa, Pro Agile .NET Development with SCRUM (page B-18)

(programming, transitive) To replace (source code or other software elements) with a stub that exhibits the desired behaviour, typically for use in automated testing.


IDaaS

(computing) Acronym of Identity as a Service.


spin button

(graphical user interface) Synonym of spinner (arrowed control for changing a numeric value)


BPaaS

(computing) Acronym of Business Process as a Service.


gnisrap

From parsing spelled backwards. Introduced by Thomas R. G. Green in a 1987 paper.

Similarly we believe our model could handle the different 'psychological complexity' levels of certain drawing programs to which Kiss and Pinder draw attention. In fact, our approach has much in common with theirs at the gnisrap end, but they do not consider the parsing side.

1987, Human-computer Interaction — INTERACT '87: Proceedings..., page 69

Green et al (1987) have proposed a number of extensions to Rist's model. In their parsing/gnisrap model of coding, they describe the process by which a skeletal plan is instantiated in a programming notation.

1996, Wayne D. Gray, Deborah Ann Boehm-Davis, Empirical Studies of Programmers: Sixth Workshop, page 60

(programming) The cognitive process of creating a mental model of a computer program by reading the code.


LTS

(computing) Initialism of long-term support.

leaning toothpick syndrome
leaning toothpick syndrome#English

(programming) Initialism of leaning toothpick syndrome.


pseudo-type

(programming) A data type that can be only used in certain places, for example as the argument to a function.


Viner

(Internet, historical) A user of Vine, an Internet-based service for sharing very short videos.


SGTM

(Internet) Initialism of sounds good to me.


SSPI

(API, Microsoft, security) Initialism of Security Support Provider Interface (a Microsoft Windows API used for security-related operations such as authentication.)


critical hit

This character deals 4 damage per hit. There's always a 3% chance of striking a critical hit that deals 20 damage.

(video games, roleplaying games) A successful attack that deals more damage than a normal blow.

coup critique

an attack that deals more damage than a normal blow


taskpad

You can also control the size of the list, whether the list is displayed horizontally or vertically in the results pane, and more. Here are the steps to follow to create a custom taskpad view: […]

2012, Brian Knittel, Paul McFedries, Windows 8 In Depth

(computing, Microsoft Windows) A graphical user interface that gathers several tasks into a single display, giving each one an icon.


IHV

(computing) Initialism of independent hardware vendor.


open-sourceness

(computing, of software, hardware or a product) The quality of being open-source.


QL

(computer languages, databases) Initialism of query language.


voxelize

voxelize (third-person singular simple present voxelizes, present participle voxelizing, simple past and past participle voxelized)

voxelizes (present singular third-person)
voxelizing (participle present)
voxelized (participle past)
voxelized (past)

(transitive, computer graphics) To convert (an image or model) into voxels.


NTLDR

(computing) The boot loader for Windows NT.


untrim

untrim (third-person singular simple present untrims, present participle untrimming, simple past and past participle untrimmed)

untrims (present singular third-person)
untrimming (participle present)
untrimmed (participle past)
untrimmed (past)

(computer graphics, CAD) To restore the original shape of (a surface that has been trimmed).


EAV

Entity–attribute–value model
w:Entity–attribute–value model

(computing) Initialism of Entity–attribute–value model.


fuzzer

You should be able to write a simple fuzzer that hits your arguments to make sure your program is properly checking inputs. Actually, I would take this time to write a fuzzer to just learn how they are built.

2006 August 5, “indentify if argument is char or float”, in comp.lang.c (Usenet), message-ID <1154846659.167840.131380@m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com>

Found this bug on my own, no need for a fuzzer

2010 April 6, MC Frontalot (lyrics and music), “Zero Day” (track 1), in Zero Day ft. Dual Core, YTCracker, and Jane Silence

In exchange for this additional complexity it is more efficient in finding bugs than fuzzers that blindly generate inputs with rand.

2015 December 4, Dmitry Vyukov, “RFC: upstreaming fuzzing coverage support”, in linux-kernel mailing list, message-ID <CACT4Y+Y7qjRCnwUZc60ZOvXyQTrV+o7mToEUgh5hzKVFc48PnA@mail.gmail.com>

(computing) A software program that performs fuzz testing.


profilee

The first is that once you request in-process debugging, the profilee will run slower.

2003, John Robbins, Debugging Applications for Microsoft .NET and Microsoft Windows

(computing, rare) A program undergoing profiling.


PDFize

PDFize (third-person singular simple present PDFizes, present participle PDFizing, simple past and past participle PDFized)

PDFizes (present singular third-person)
PDFizing (participle present)
PDFized (participle past)
PDFized (past)

Printing a file to PDF is really simple. Just open the file you want to PDF-ize, and select Print in the File menu of the application for that document.

2005, Rickford Grant, Linux Made Easy: The Official Guide to Xandros 3 for Everyday Users, San Francisco: No Starch Press, page 154

(transitive, rare, computing) To convert (a file) to PDF format.


dialog window

In the Print dialog window that then appears, click the drop-down menu button where your printer is listed and select Print to File (PDF), as shown in Figure 9-17.


test double

A test double is something that stands in for a real system when tests are being run. It comes from the idea of a double who stands in for the real actor when shooting a movie.

2010, Ken Pugh, Lean-Agile Acceptance Test-Driven-Development, Pearson Education

(programming) An object or procedure that looks and behaves like its release-intended counterpart, but is actually a simplified version to reduce complexity and facilitate testing.


VHD

(computing) Initialism of video high density (a videodisc format)

(computing) Initialism of virtual hard Disk (a disk image file format used by Microsoft Virtual PC)

virtual hard Disk

(computing) Initialism of volumetric haptic display (a display that about informs touch instead of vision)


role-based

en-adj

role-based (comparative more role-based, superlative most role-based)

more role-based (comparative)
most role-based (superlative)

(computing, databases) based on a special given role to access a content; used usually in cloud computing, databases, or other complex systems.


Burrows-Wheeler transform

en-noun

Burrows-Wheeler transform (plural Burrows-Wheeler transforms)

Invented by Michael Burrows and David Wheeler in 1994.

(computing theory) An algorithm used in data compression that rearranges a character string into runs of similar characters.


CHAP

(computing) Initialism of Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol.


Pascal case

Referring to the Pascal programming language.

(computing) CamelCase with the first letter capitalized, e.g. SomeKindOfName.


postee

That soundtrack turned out to be for "Empire Records," and the postee was "Empire Records" assistant music supervisor Bob Knickman, who says he posted notes in music- skewed areas on various commercial services and the Internet.

1995, Billboard, volume 107, number 43, page 72

After reading a message posted on a message board, the researcher offered a suggestion to the postee in a private e-mail.

2000, Ancestry magazine, volume 18, number 4, page 57

[…] presented in a nice font, over a seascape background and accompanied by an addition from the postee such as 'omg so true' […]

(Internet) One who posts an electronic message; a poster.


Rainbow Books

Meronyms: Red Book, Yellow Book

(computing) The various standards for CD formats, each named after a particular color.


pixel pusher

(slang) A graphic artist who creates computer graphics.


thumbnailer

From thumbnail (“to create a smaller representation of (a larger image)”, verb) + -er.

suf

(computing) A program that generates thumbnail images.


DKIM

DomainKeys Identified Mail
w:DomainKeys Identified Mail

(Internet) Initialism of DomainKeys Identified Mail: an email authentication method designed to detect spoofing.


font stack

(web design) The list of fonts a CSS stylesheet instructs a web browser to use.


sidechannel

VLSI circuits are open to sidechannel attacks which disclose information about its internal state to an adversary.

2005, Subhamoy Maitra, C.E. Veni Madhavan, Ramarathnam Venkatesan, Progress in Cryptology - INDOCRYPT 2005

Timing attacks are an example of sidechannel analysis: examining ways a device can inadvertently transmit information, in addition to its official I/O channels.

2007, Sean Smith, John Marchesini, The Craft of System Security

Due to their non-invasive, non-harming manner, and the rarely available and the yet more rarely implemented proper countermeasures, sidechannel attacks are a particularly dangerous attack method against many vehicular IT security mechanisms.

2009, Marko Wolf, Security Engineering for Vehicular IT Systems

(computing, security) An indirect source of information about what a system is doing, such as execution time, version number, etc.


ECTS

(computing, ticaret) Initialism of European Computer Trade Show.


DAL

(software) Initialism of data access layer, a software architecture layer

(software) Initialism of database abstraction layer, a software architecture layer


milblog

Milblogs required a balancing act between freedom of speech and the need for information security.

2008, Michael D. Doubler, The National Guard and the War on Terror: Operation Iraqi Freedom, page 80

Milblogs have also been incorporated into mainstream coverage.

2009, Melissa Wall, “The Taming of the Warblogs: Citizen Journalism and the War in Iraq”, in Stuart Allan, Einar Thorsen, editors, Citizen Journalism: A Global Perspective, page 36

She opened and replied to all of her emails. That seemed to take less time than usual so she checked her favorite milblog.

2014, Cat Johnson, A Prince Among Men, page 130

(Internet) A blog written by a person serving in the military.


DMI

(computing) Initialism of Desktop Management Interface.


low%

(video games, speedrunning) A category in speedrunning that pertains to the goal of completing the game as quickly as possible while unlocking or completing other game objectives as little as possible.


any%

From any + percent, denoting that any percentage of the game could be completed in order to get to the central goal.

(video games, speedrunning) A category in speedrunning which pertains to the goal of a game's mere completion, i.e. getting to the main concluding goal as quickly as possible, regardless of how much is unlocked or what techniques are used.


BSON

(computing) A simple data interchange format used in the MongoDB database.


server push

(web development) A style of Internet-based communication where the request for a transaction is initiated by the server.


doubly-linked

a doubly-linked list

(programming, of a data structure) Whose elements each link to the previous and the next element.


prepared statement

en-noun

prepared statement (plural prepared statements)

(databases) A database query that has parameters which are replaced by values when it is executed, instead of the values being part of the statement itself.


massive parallelism

massive parallelism (usually uncountable, plural massive parallelisms)

(computing) The property of being massively parallel.


Knuth-Bendix completion algorithm

Named after Donald Knuth and Peter Bendix.

(computing theory) A semidecision algorithm for transforming a set of equations (over terms) into a confluent term rewriting system.

Donald Knuth
Knuth-Bendix completion algorithm


IGN

(video games) Initialism of in-game name.


sink function

(computer security) A function that may contain tainted values.


spamtrap

(computer security) A honeypot used to collect spam.


persistent cross-site scripting

persistent cross-site scripting (uncountable)

cross-site scripting
cross-site scripting

(computer security) A cross-site scripting attack where the malicious script is a permanent part of a web page.


reflected cross-site scripting

reflected cross-site scripting (uncountable)

(computer security) A cross-site scripting attack where the malicious script is relayed to the victim in an e-mail or as a URL parameter.


gradual typing

(programming) A type system where some variables are statically-typed and some are dynamically-typed.


Konami Code

The code was created by Kazuhisa Hashimoto. It was first used in the 1986 NES port of the arcade game Gradius, published by Konami.

(video games) The cheat code "↑↑↓↓←→←→BA", usable in multiple video games.


Snapchatter

(Internet) A user of the mobile photo-messaging application Snapchat.


Initialism of Windows 98 (operating system).


Initialism of Windows 95 (operating system).


Pascal string

After the Pascal programming language, which uses this type of string by default.

(programming) A string whose length is stored as a separate value.


type-check

en-verb

type-check (third-person singular simple present type-checks, present participle type-checking, simple past and past participle type-checked)

type-checks (present singular third-person)
type-checking (participle present)
type-checked (participle past)
type-checked (past)


session fixation

(computer security) An exploit where the attacker sets or finds out the victim's session identifier.


login CSRF

(computer security) An exploit where the attacker makes the victim log into a system using the attacker’s credentials.


C-style string

After the C programming language, which uses this type of string by default.

Coordinate term: Pascal string

(programming) A string which uses a null value to mark its own end.


shared pointer

(programming) A smart pointer that allows other pointers to point to the same address.


plain old data

(programming) Data structures that are represented as passive collections of field values.


key stretching

(cryptography) Techniques used to make a key more secure against brute force attacks by increasing the resources needed to test each possible key.


binary-safe

(programming, distributed computing) Guaranteed not to corrupt or alter binary data.


NELIAC

(programming) Initialism of Navy Electronics Laboratory International ALGOL Compiler: a dialect and compiler implementation of the ALGOL 58 programming language.


mutating table

(databases) A table whose modification has fired a trigger.


systolic array

(computing) In parallel computer architectures, a homogeneous network of tightly coupled data processing units (DPUs), each of which independently computes a partial result as a function of the data received from its upstream neighbors, stores the result within itself, and passes it downstream.


clustering key

(databases) A database field whose values serve as the keys of a clustered index.


autovacuum

autovacuum (third-person singular simple present autovacuums, present participle autovacuuming, simple past and past participle autovacuumed)

autovacuums (present singular third-person)
autovacuuming (participle present)
autovacuumed (participle past)
autovacuumed (past)

(databases) To vacuum (physically remove deleted tuples from) a table or database automatically.


write-ahead log

en-noun

write-ahead log (plural write-ahead logs)

(databases) A log where all database modifications are stored before they are applied.


generalized search tree

generalized search tree (plural generalized search trees)

(databases) A type of search tree that features data and query extensibility.


write-ahead logging

(databases) The technique of writing all database modifications to a log before they are applied.


weird matching

(regular expressions, rare) A type of matching where the newline character matches newlines but the wildcard character also does.


continuous integration

continuous integration (countable and uncountable, plural continuous integrations)

(software engineering) The practice of merging all branches to a shared mainline several times a day.


capturing group

capturing group (plural capturing groups)

(regular expressions) A grouping in a regular expression that stores the value it matches.


dasherize

en-verb

dasherize (third-person singular simple present dasherizes, present participle dasherizing, simple past and past participle dasherized)

dasherizes (present singular third-person)
dasherizing (participle present)
dasherized (participle past)
dasherized (past)

(programming, informal) To convert (a string) to use hyphens as word separators.


Fagan inspection

en-noun

Fagan inspection (plural Fagan inspections)

Named after Michael Fagan, who is credited with being the inventor of formal software inspections.

(software engineering) A structured process of trying to find defects in source code, specifications, and other design documents.


proggy

99.5% of this proggy is password-phree, but we can't have lamers going around on overhead accounts...

(computing) Alternative spelling of proggie.


Radio Shack's "schlocky" image begins not with the name or the advertising or the "Trash-80" computers but at the store. I recently went to get some replacement pens for my TRS-80 PC-2 printer. The clerk asked, "What's a PC-2?" and "Why does it need pens?" With help like that, who needs competition?

1984, InfoWorld, volume 6, number 37, page 6

It seems that the developers and users were much more attached to their beloved Trash-80s than anyone at Tandy.

2007, Theresa M. Welsh, David Welsh, Priming the Pump: How TRS-80 Enthusiasts Helped Spark the PC Revolution

He'd picked a computer. It was a perfect choice for a boy who takes things apart—because the little Trash-80 computer was a portal to the Blue Nowhere, which is infinitely deep and infinitely complex, made up of layer upon layer of parts small as molecules and big as the exploding universe.

2016, Jeffery Deaver, The Blue Nowhere, page 200

(computing, slang, derogatory) A TRS-80 microcomputer.


weblication

weblication (countable and uncountable, plural weblications)

Weblication is used in this article to describe any dissemination of information which occurs primarily via the Internet or World Wide Web. While weblications may be downloaded to local computers or magnetic media and/or printed onto paper by individual readers, this is secondary to their initial distribution.

1997 March, David Atherton, David Steffen, Sinai Yarus, “Scientific publishing : Paper or perish”, in Science Tribune

2000 J.Q. Johnson, "Weblication & Future Publication," email posted to WEB4LIB list, 6 May 2000.
My own feeling is that the clear trend is towards less restriction on prior informal sharing of research results, and the inclusion of unreferreed weblication as something allowed by more and more journals.

2013, "Weblication," Combination: Innovate your language
weblication : A publication that is first published on the internet (web).

The act of publishing on the World Wide Web; a publication on the web.


weblication

The rapid growth of weblications—application-oriented software delivered as a service over the Web—has revealed a lack of effective guidelines for their design and implementation

2007, Norshuhada Shiratuddin, Zanariah Idrus, Web Form Design Checklist Based on the Three-Layer Model

weblication : Jargon for "web application." Do not use. It could be confused with "web publication."

2012, Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Manual of Style, Pearson Education

(neologism) A computer application served on the World Wide Web.


HSTS

HTTP Strict Transport Security
w:HTTP Strict Transport Security

(Internet) Initialism of HTTP Strict Transport Security.


voice over IP

Subject: Voice over IP and/or OSI? Message: Am looking for information on software/hardware to allow voice transmission over IP and/or OSI stacks. Please post or mail direct. Thanks in advance.

1992 April 10, Steve Johnson, “Voice over IP and/or OSI?”, in comp.sys.sun.misc (Usenet), retrieved 2016-11-01, message-ID <534@trwacs.fp.trw.com>

Is there an application that will let use broadcast audio and let individual machines 'tune in' on the connection?? Will we get decent bandwidth (i.e. sample rates at 32 or 48 kHz) or the crappy bandwidth like 8.192 kHz used for voice over IP (i.e. NeVOT) ??

1993 September 26, Jim Doyle, “Listening to CDs over the LAN ??”, in comp.sys.sgi.apps (Usenet), retrieved 2016-11-01, message-ID <284o3jINNmc2@ymir.cs.umass.edu>

A router, by definition, cannot carry isochronous traffic such as voice. Some hard-core Internet fanatics, who detest telephone companies for a living (something about being chased away from the pay phone they were phreaking as a kid), will try to run voice over IP. It is like teaching a pig to sing: It won't sound good, and it annoys the pig.

1993 October 9, Fred R. Goldstein, “Re: How Will Routers Compete Against Digital Switches?”, in comp.dcom.telecom (Usenet), retrieved 2016-11-01, message-ID <telecom13.690.10@eecs.nwu.edu>

(Internet, technology) voice over Internet Protocol (also "VoIP"), a telecommunications system that uses the Internet or other Internet Protocol network to transmit telephone calls


ESI

(Internet) Initialism of Edge Side Includes (a markup language for assembling web pages with dynamic content, based on special tags inserted into the HTML code).


POODLE

Initialism from Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption.

(computing) A man-in-the-middle exploit that takes advantage of Internet and security software clients' fallback to an older version of SSL.


CSSOM

Cascading Style Sheets
w:Cascading Style Sheets

(Internet) Initialism of Cascading Style Sheets object model.


errno

(programming, informal) A value or variable that identifies the kind of error (or lack thereof) that has occurred during the execution of a program or subroutine.


C10K problem

(networking) The problem of optimizing a network to handle a large number of connections (roughly ten thousand) concurrently.


read receipt

/ˈɹiːd ɹɪˌsiːt/

/ˈɹɛd ɹɪˌsiːt/

(computing) An automatic response, often containing a timestamp, which notifies the sender of an e-mail or instant message that the message was opened.

Lesebestätigung

automatic response that notifies the sender that their message was opened


window function

window function (plural window functions)

Coordinate term: aggregate function

(databases) A function that performs a calculation using values from several rows, but does not group them into a single row.


weblish

en-verb

weblish (third-person singular simple present weblishes, present participle weblishing, simple past and past participle weblished)

weblishes (present singular third-person)
weblishing (participle present)
weblished (participle past)
weblished (past)

Some libraries, especially those affiliated with academic institutions, may add weblishing to their archival function by putting e-journals on-line.

After about two months, we will weblish the first official edition of PEN extended with more problems.

2008, "Big Picture," Project PEN: Problems in Elementary Number Theory (blog), June 27, 2008

2011, "Weblicize," Urban Dictionary
"weblication" could also be used in like fashion, and "a weblication" could also refer to specific text, images, or other materials which are "weblicated"/"weblicized"/"weblished".

(Internet, transitive) To publish on the Web (as distinguished from in print).


nonconcurrency

From non- + concurrency or nonconcurrent + -cy.

(computer science, by extension) A property of systems where several processes execute sequentially, not at the same time.


NRVO

(programming) Initialism of named return value optimization.


four color theorem

(graph theory) A theorem stating that given any separation of a plane into contiguous regions, producing a figure called a map, no more than four colors are required to color the regions so that no two adjacent regions have the same color (adjacent being defined as two regions sharing a boundary, not counting corners, in which three or more regions share a boundary).


auto-shuffle

(computing) A feature that automatically randomly reorders something, such as tracks in a playlist or the cards held in a game.


GSL

GNU Scientific Library
w:GNU Scientific Library

(computer software) Initialism of GNU Scientific Library.


super class

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

(computing, object-oriented programming) Alternative form of superclass


curly-brace language

en-noun

curly-brace language (plural curly-brace languages)

curly-bracket language
curly-bracket language#English

(programming) Synonym of curly-bracket language


static language

static language (plural static languages)

programming language
programming language

(computer languages) A programming language that analyses code without executing the code itself.


dynamic language

dynamic language (plural dynamic languages)

(computer languages) A programming language that analyses code also when executing the code itself.


class-based language

class-based language (plural class-based languages)

(object-oriented programming, computer languages) A programming language in which behaviour reuse (or inheritance) is performed via cloning classes instead of using objects as prototypes.


hackday

(computing, informal) The day when a hackathon is held.


object-oriented language

object-oriented language (plural object-oriented languages)

(programming) Any programming language that encapsulates the state and operations inside objects that support inheritance.

limbaj de programare orientată pe obiecte


PICS

(Internet) Platform for Internet Content Selection: a former technology for protecting children from online adult content, etc.


strong reference

strong reference (plural strong references)

(computing) A reference that does protect the referenced object from collection by a garbage collector.


weak reference

(computing) A reference that does not protect the referenced object from collection by a garbage collector.


phantom reference

phantom reference (plural phantom references)

(computing) A weak reference, where the memory of the object could be reclaimed.


soft reference

(computing) A weak reference that is garbage-collected less aggressively.


circular reference

circular reference (plural circular references)

(computing) A series of references, where the last object references the first.


forward reference

forward reference (plural forward references)

(computing) The actual use of an entity before any declaration.

forward declaration
forward declaration#English

(computing) Synonym of forward declaration


OPML

(computing) Initialism of Outline Processor Markup Language.


warblog

September 11 also spawned a generation of "warblogs,” mostly hawkish sites that focused on the U.S. response to the terrorist attacks.

2002, Rebecca Blood, The Weblog Handbook, page 156

Roggio, a former US soldier, turned his long-running warblog into a grander enterprise called the Long War Journal.

2009, Donald Matheson, Stuart Allan, Digital War Reporting, page 123

Some of the most interesting are the warblogs created by soldiers and others.

(Internet) A blog documenting an ongoing military conflict or presenting analysis or opinions related to it.


warblogger

Possibly the most famous warblogger was the Baghad architect, Salam Pax, who logged on regularly to provide eyewitness reports on the bombing of his city.

2005, Graeme Turner, Ending the Affair: The Decline of Television Current Affairs in Australia, page 138

And when Lileks turned into a warblogger, he made his bones. His audience swelled as Lileks turned tremendous writing skills to the issues of the war and a post-9/11 world.

2005, Hugh Hewitt, Blog: Understanding the Information Reformation That's Changing Your World, page 106

Another notable difference is that warbloggers eventually made themselves heard on their own terms by the mainstream media, which had initially scorned them.

2009, Melissa Wall, “The Taming of the Warblogs: Citizen Journalism and the War in Iraq”, in Stuart Allan, Einar Thorsen, editors, Citizen Journalism: A Global Perspective, page 33


cue sheet

(computing) A text file that details the layout of tracks on a compact disc.


SBC

single-board computer
w:single-board computer

(computing, technology) Initialism of single-board computer.


warblogging

The writing and publication of a warblog.


WTFPL

w:Do What the Fuck You Want To Public License

(computing) Initialism of Do What the Fuck You Want To Public License.


primitive wrapper class

primitive wrapper class (plural primitive wrapper classes)

(object-oriented programming) Synonym of wrapper


milblogger

One milblogger who writes anonymously, (as many do), commented in private correspondence with the author: […]

2006, Carl E. Dauber, “Life in Wartime: Real-Time News, Real-Time Critique, Fighting in the New Media Environment”, in Military Life: The Psychology of Serving in Peace and Combat, page 203

A number of milbloggers converted their work to published books after returning home.

2008, Michael D. Doubler, The National Guard and the War on Terror: Operation Iraqi Freedom, page 81

The rise of milbloggers writing from within the war zone itself suggests that in terms of international news reported from outside the West, citizen journalism—just like mainstream news reporting—is likely to be more easily done by Westerners.

2009, Melissa Wall, “The Taming of the Warblogs: Citizen Journalism and the War in Iraq”, in Stuart Allan, Einar Thorsen, editors, Citizen Journalism: A Global Perspective, page 35

(Internet) A military service member who writes a blog.

Some proxy officials from occupied Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts also operate as milbloggers because they voice their opinions, share analysis from other milbloggers, and disseminate footage from the frontlines independent of the Kremlin and often at odds with the official MoD and Kremlin lines.

2022 November 20, Kateryna Stepanenko, Frederick W. Kagan, Grace Mappes, “Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 20”, in understandingwar.org, Institute for the Study of War, archived from the original on 2022-11-21

(Internet) A blogger, usually one with a close relationship to armed forces, who blogs, often from the front lines, about an ongoing war.


docblock

(programming) A specially formatted comment in source code, used to document a specific segment of the code.


Suckerberg

And tell Mark Suckerberg that I will sue him if he tries to use my student’s pictures again.

2013, Herbert, “Ditch Chris”, in Random Conversations, Partridge India, page 87

“Suckerberg,” a British woman wrote. “let me guess,” a woman from Washington State wrote, “you guys never really thought of how explosive free speech really was did ya??”

2019, Andrew Marantz, “Common Sense”, in Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation, Viking, part six (A Night for Freedom), page 346

They stopped reading poetry books during Shakespeare’s time and Suckerberg is only 32.

2019, Tendai Rinos Mwanaka, “The Poet’s Revenge To No One Who Buys Poetry Books”, in Tendai Rinos Mwanaka, Jabulani Mzinyathi, editors, Zimbolicious Anthology: An Anthology of Zimbabwean Literature and Arts, volume 4, Chitungwiza: Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd, page 39

(slang, derogatory) Mark Zuckerberg (born 1984), founder of social media company Facebook


bodyblock

en-verb

bodyblock (third-person singular simple present bodyblocks, present participle bodyblocking, simple past and past participle bodyblocked)

bodyblocks (present singular third-person)
bodyblocking (participle present)
bodyblocked (participle past)
bodyblocked (past)


semi-naive

en-adj

semi-naive (comparative more semi-naive, superlative most semi-naive)

more semi-naive (comparative)
most semi-naive (superlative)

We would like to know if correlating some of the disjoint (and conditionally independent) feature subsets of a semi-naive Bayes can improve its predictive accuracy.

2013, Concha Bielza, Antonio Salmeron, Amparo Alonso-Betanzos, Advances in Artificial Intelligence

(computing) Predominantly naive but including modifications that improve efficiency.


frame problem

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

(computing theory) The problem of finding an adequate collection of axioms making up a viable description of the world for a robot or artificial intelligence.


curiously recurring template pattern

en-noun

curiously recurring template pattern (plural curiously recurring template patterns)

curiously recurring template patterns (plural)

Title of a 1995 article which describes this idiom.

(programming) An idiom in which a class X derives from a class template instantiation using X itself as template argument.


Endless September

Thanks, Eugene, I was beginning to hallucinate that the Endless September was finally winding down, I appreciate you setting me straight. And for extending such a nice welcome to a Pro new to the Net, we really appreciate it.

1994 March 23, Mo Shu Glenn, “Thanks from Hero”, in rec.arts.comics.misc (Usenet)

Eternal September
Eternal September#English

(Internet slang) Synonym of Eternal September


radix tree

(computing theory) A space-optimized trie data structure in which each node that is the only child is merged with its parent.


Patricia tree

Coined by Donald R. Morrison in 1968, as an acronym of practical algorithm to retrieve information coded in alphanumeric, designed to spell out the name Patricia.

(computing theory) A radix tree with radix of 2, meaning that each bit of the key is compared individually and each node is a two-way branch.


FOSSie

(computing, informal) An advocate of free open source software.


reshard

en-verb

reshard (third-person singular simple present reshards, present participle resharding, simple past and past participle resharded)

reshards (present singular third-person)
resharding (participle present)
resharded (participle past)
resharded (past)

The separation of values into those partitions is performed on fixed boundaries: you have to set fixed rules ahead of time to route values to their appropriate store. With it comes the inherent difficulty of having to reshard the data when one of the horizontal partitions exceeds its capacity.

2011, Lars George, HBase: The Definitive Guide: Random Access to Your Planet-Size Data

(transitive, databases) To redivide (a database) into shards.


AWS

Amazon Web Services
w:Amazon Web Services

(Internet) Initialism of Amazon Web Services.


AWS

“The concern that these weapons might misidentify targets is the least of our worries,” he said. “More significant is the threat of an A.W.S. arms race and proliferation crisis.”

2021 June 3, Maria Cramer, quoting James Dawes, “A.I. Drone May Have Acted on Its Own in Attacking Fighters, U.N. Says”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

(military, robotics, artificial intelligence) Initialism of Autonomous Weapons System.


ITSM

(computing) Acronym of IT service management.


bitarray

(programming) An array (or list) of bits (representing Boolean variables)


bit-compressed

(mathematics, computing) Represented by the minimum number of bits that can represent the maximum value (of an integer variable)


bitvector

(mathematics, computing) A vector (or similar array) of bits that represent Boolean variables.


RADIUS

(computing) Initialism of Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service.


sleeper account

en-noun

sleeper account (plural sleeper accounts)

(computing, Internet) An account that has been created but not edited in a long time and has now become dormant.


LIBlet

(computing, Java programming language) A library that works with the MIDP.


biblioblogger

From biblio- + blogger or biblioblog + -er.

(Internet) A contributor to a blog or online journal concerned with the Bible.


biblioblogging

(Internet) The process of writing and publishing a biblioblog.


biblioblog

(Internet) A blog or online journal concerned with the Bible.


multilock

(computing) A lock that restricts access to more than one object.


flip-flop operator

flip-flop operator (plural flip-flop operators)

(programming) An operator specifying a range of conditions, such that the related code executes only if the first condition is true, and only until the second condition becomes true.


ungzip

en-verb

ungzip (third-person singular simple present ungzips, present participle ungzipping, simple past and past participle ungzipped)

ungzips (present singular third-person)
ungzipping (participle present)
ungzipped (participle past)
ungzipped (past)

I untarred (and ungzipped) that file using the following command: […]

2002, John Bryan Callender, Perl for Web site management, page 405

This should completely reset everything to exactly the way it was after you untared/ungzipped PHP […]

2002, Luis Argerich, Professional PHP4 XML, page 764

(computing, transitive) To decompress (data previously gzipped).


inedge

(graph theory) An incoming edge in a digraph, i.e. one that enters a particular node.


half-edge

(graph theory) An edge that is attached to only one node, rather than connecting two of them, or is connected in only one direction


outedge

(graph theory) An outgoing edge in a digraph, i.e. one that leaves a particular node.


OCL

(computing, design) Initialism of Object Constraint Language (declarative language developed at IBM that is now part of the UML standard)


OOSA

(software) Initialism of object-oriented structured analysis.


XMI

(software) Initialism of XML Metadata Interchange (an OMG standard for exchanging metadata information using XML.)


dialecting

REBOL's unique dialecting capability enables information to flow automatically over managed, encrypted, and authenticated connections.

2007, Jessica Keyes, X Internet: The Executable and Extendable Internet, page 133

domain-specific language
domain-specific language

(programming) The creation of domain-specific languages within an existing programming language.


unfilter

(computing, data) The lack or absence of a filter


system tray

From the file SysTray.exe, first appearing in Microsoft Windows 95 in 1995.

The system tray sits on the opposite end of the taskbar from the Start menu. If the taskbar is on the bottom of the screen, the system tray is on the right side of the taskbar.

2005, Dan Gookin, PCs For Dummies Quick Reference, page 57

The new System Tray API makes it possible for an application to gain access to the desktop's system tray, which presents the system time and icons of applications that interact with the system tray.

2007, Jeff Friesen, Beginning Java SE 6 Platform: From Novice to Professional, page 103

This DLL will enable us to put an icon in the system tray, control that icon while it's in the system tray, and remove it from the system tray when we're done with it.

2008, Jonathan Morrison, C++ for VB Programmers, page 183

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(computing, graphical user interface) The portion of the taskbar that displays the system time and icons for running processes, which can often launch menus for those processes.


evercookie

A breed of cookie known as evercookie writes data to multiple locations to make it next to impossible ever to remove it completely (http://samy.pl/evercookie/).

2014, Emmett Dulaney, Chuck Easttom, CompTIA Security+ Study Guide: SY0-401

(Internet) A special kind of HTTP cookie that is especially resistant to deletion by the user.


Standard ML

(programming) A functional, modular programming language.


SML/NJ

programming language
programming language#English

(computing) Initialism of Standard ML of New Jersey (a compiler and programming environment for the Standard ML programming language)


filterware

(computing) Software that filters out objectionable material.


delurker

One is how the delurker carried out the delurking action, i.e. how they presented themselves to the group for the first time. The other is how the group received them.

2012, Christopher Lueg, Danyel Fisher, From Usenet to CoWebs: Interacting with Social Information Spaces


Gerstmanngate

It's fair to say that people's reaction to Gerstmanngate has been less than rational. The media, or rather 'the bits of the media who give a toss', covered it with the usual aplomb and overuse of inflammatory headlines, and most blogs took the opportunity to wax lyrical on the ethics of journalism and, of all things, the integrity of the games industry.

2008 January 25, Lisa, “The idiot is whinier than the sword”, in Felix, number 1,393, London: Imperial College Union, →ISSN, page 9

(informal) A controversy following the 2007 dismissal of Jeff Gerstmann from his position as Editorial Director of GameSpot, alleged by some to be a consequence of his giving only a mediocre rating to a video game that was being heavily advertised on GameSpot at the time.


Eppstein's algorithm

After US mathematician David Eppstein (born 1963).

(graph theory) An algorithm that finds a number of shortest paths (allowing cycles) connecting a given pair of vertices in a digraph.


titlecase

en-noun

titlecase (countable and uncountable, plural titlecases)

2012, Tom Christiansen, brian d foy, Larry Wall, Programming Perl: Unmatched power for text processing and scripting
In ASCII, there are uppercase letters and lowercase letters, but in Unicode, there is also a third sort of case, called titlecase.

(computing, countable, uncountable) The variant of the letter that is used when this letter appears in the beginning of the sentence.


titlecase

en-verb

titlecase (third-person singular simple present titlecases, present participle titlecasing, simple past and past participle titlecased)

titlecases (present singular third-person)
titlecasing (participle present)
titlecased (participle past)
titlecased (past)

For example, if we wanted to titlecase the BlogPost title, you would simply call the title() filter like this: <h2>{{ post.title|title }}</h2>

2012, Wesley Chun, Core Python Applications Programming

(computing, transitive) To convert to titlecase form.


spellmaker

(video games) One who creates magic spells.


spellmaking

(video games) The creation of magic spells.


DfV

(video games, roguelikes, intransitive) Initialism of dig for victory.


policy pattern

strategy pattern
strategy pattern#English

(software, design) Synonym of strategy pattern


Reingold-Tilford algorithm

en-noun

Reingold-Tilford algorithm (plural Reingold-Tilford algorithms)

Introduced in a 1981 paper by Edward Reingold and John Tilford.

(computing theory) An algorithm that generates aesthetically pleasing drawings of binary trees (and by extension, n-ary trees).


MOTW

(Internet) Initialism of Mark of the Web: a code inserted into a saved copy of web page to indicate its origin, for security purposes.


composite key

(databases) A key constituted by several fields, including one which is not a superkey.


compound key

(databases) A key which is constituted by several fields.


SFTP

(computing, Internet) Initialism of Secure File Transfer Protocol (a true SSH File Transfer Protocol client from the OpenSSH project)

Secure File Transfer Protocol

(computing, Internet) Initialism of Simple File Transfer Protocol (an unsecured and rarely used file transfer protocol from the early days of the Internet)

Simple File Transfer Protocol

(computing, Internet) Initialism of SSH File Transfer Protocol (a network protocol used for secure file transfer over secure shell)


deep link

Therefore, it depends on the concrete circumstances whether deep links are legal or not. Noncommercial sites are probably more often allowed to deep link to other sites than commercial sites.

2004, Munindar P. Singh, editor, The Practical Handbook of Internet Computing, CRC Press, page 10

(Internet) A type of hyperlink directly pointing to content on a website, rather than its home page.

lien profond

a type of hyperlink linking to a website page which is not the home page


night mode

(graphical user interface) A colour scheme with light text on a dark background.


metadirectory

(computing) A directory service that lists other directory services.


cosmism

A moral philosophy regarding the future of artificial intelligence, based on the writings of Hugo de Garis (born 1947).


premature optimization

premature optimization (countable and uncountable, plural premature optimizations)

It was first coined by Donald Knuth in his 1974 monograph The Art of Computer Programming which won a Turing Award.

The real problem is that programmers have spent far too much time worrying about efficiency in the wrong places and at the wrong times; premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming.

1973, Donald Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming

2016, Amitt Mahajan, Why you’re mispricing your VR seed round, VentureBeat
Similar to engineering, premature optimization can cause you to focus on items that don’t materially affect your outcome and can divert your attention away from those that do.

(programming) The act of wasting resources on optimising source code that does not represent a significant bottleneck.

The Art of Computer Programming
Turing Award


mukbang

mukbang (countable and uncountable, plural mukbangs)

Borrowed from Korean 먹방 (meokbang, literally “eating broadcast”).

bor

After all there's a huge market in South Korea for mukbangs. That's where someone is streaming as they eat. […] In any case there seem to be no particular types that are successful at streaming a mukbang since there are pretty young girls and heavy guys that seem to get a lot of viewers.

2016 January 6, shawn, “Re: AT&T U-Verse Shysters”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet)

I also get the sense, though, that some of those who, for whatever reason, often end up eating alone are tuning in for a dose of mukbang at mealtimes to get some virtual company (see the “Social Dining” chapter).

2017, Charles Spence, Gastrophysics: The New Science of Eating, Penguin, page 57

In each group of comments, the intersectionality of Kinoshita's identity markers is compounded as she is singled out as a mukbang eater, a female mukbang eater, a slim female mukbang eater, and finally a slim Asian female mukbang eater, […]

2018, Crystal Abidin, Internet Celebrity: Understanding Fame Online, Emerald Group Publishing, page 26

I eat the pussy like a mukbang, let my nuts hang

2022, “Estaciones”, performed by Action Bronson ft. Hologram

(social media) An online video broadcast in which a person eats while interacting with their audience.


TET

en-noun

TET (countable and uncountable, plural TETs)

TETs of the first and last categories are also called ex-ante TETs, as they provide transparency of any intended data processing to the data subjects before they are releasing any personal data.

2012, John R. Vacca, Computer and Information Security Handbook, page 767

There are two classes of TETs that can be leveraged to identify, assess, and mitigate risks related to the lack of awareness on OSNs: user-side tools and provider-side tools.

2014, Johannes Buchmann, Internet Privacy: Options for adequate realisation, page 75

If we define transparency as insight in how user's data is being collected, stored, processed and disclosed, TETs can then be viewed as tools providing this insight in an accurate and comprehensible way.

2015, Sanjay Goel, Yuan Hong, Vagelis Papakonstantinou, Smart Grid Security, page 111

(computing) Initialism of transparency-enhancing tool.


relog

en-verb

relog (third-person singular simple present relogs, present participle relogging, simple past and past participle relogged)

relogs (present singular third-person)
relogging (participle present)
relogged (participle past)
relogged (past)

The game glitched out and I had to relog before I could continue playing.

(computing, video games, slang, intransitive) To log out and log in again.


delay slot

(programming) A slot for an additional instruction that is executed out of sequence, before the instruction (typically a jump or branch) that immediately precedes it in code.


blacktag

At the same time, Evans isn't exactly blown away by the genius of most “blacktags,” which he calls “Ghetto Comedy Voice.” He is slightly bored by them, pointing instead to “white cultural fingerprints” in Internet prose.

2016, Virginia Heffernan, Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art, page 106

Tweets often include the use of racialized hashtags referred to as “Blacktags” that help broadcast these performances across the Twitter universe.

2016, Kofi Lomotey, Pamela Braboy Jackson, Muna Adem, People of Color in the United States

(Internet) A hashtag used by, or in support of, the black community.


respool

respool (third-person singular simple present respools, present participle respooling, simple past and past participle respooled)

respools (present singular third-person)
respooling (participle present)
respooled (participle past)
respooled (past)

The failed print job was respooled by the operating system.

(transitive, computing) To place (data) back on a queue for later transmission.


pseudo-TLD

(Internet) A top-level domain that is not part of the official worldwide Domain Name System but is used in a similar way, for example on an intranet.


ZB

(computing, formal) Abbreviation of zettabyte.

(computing, informal) Abbreviation of zebibyte.


rogue-lite

(video games) A genre of video games that possess some, but not all, elements of roguelikes. They usually have permadeath and randomized levels.


toolstrip

(graphical user interface) A toolbar capable of displaying buttons and other elements such as dropdown menus.


timed exclusive

en-noun

timed exclusive (plural timed exclusives)

This will make two JRPGs that have been produced for the Xbox 360, with Eternal Sonata already out and largely believed to be a timed exclusive, though no release dates have been announced for a PS3 version.

2008 July, “Xbox 360 Continues JRPG Dominance”, in GameAxis Unwired, page 8

Rise of the Tomb Raider will also be a timed exclusive on Xbox One.

2014, Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition 2015, page 191

That Dragon, Cancer was funded for multiplatform release, having initially been announced through Kickstarter as a timed exclusive for the Android-based Ouya.

2016, Mike Diver, Indie Games: The Complete Introduction to Indie Gaming

(video games) A release of a game on one platform, with releases on other platforms to occur only at a later date.


SX

single precision
single precision#English

(computing) Initialism of single precision.


phisherman

Thus if he mistakenly enters his Citibank password into a phishing site, the phisherman gets a different password and cannot use it to impersonate him.

2010, Ross J. Anderson, Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems

(computing) The criminal performing phishing attacks.


front-side bus

front-side bus (plural front-side buses or front-side busses)

front-side buses (plural)
front-side busses (plural)

(computing) A bus that conducts data between a CPU and a memory controller.


A procedurally reflective dialect of Lisp that uses an infinite tower of interpreters


DevRel

software engineering
software engineering

(software engineering) developer relations


VNC

(computing, networking) Initialism of Virtual Network Computing.

(computing, networking, automotive) Abbreviation of Vehicular Networking Conference.


S-box

In block ciphers, S-boxes are typically used to obscure the relationship between the key and the ciphertext.

(cryptography) A basic component of symmetric-key algorithms, which performs substitution, transforming one set of bits into another.


pixelscape

(computer graphics) A landscape constructed from pixels.


MCI

(programming) Initialism of Media Control Interface.


character-based

(computing) capable of displaying only text characters or having a text-based user interface


namevoter

how bad is the rest of the releases from evoke2000 democompo, because the haujobb demo was the overall winner! or is this again a true example of namevoting? How could such a demo win a democompo?

2000, Frans Bouma, “Whoa, the namevoters were busy this weekend!”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet)

(demoscene) One who votes for an entry in a demoscene competition on the basis of its author or demogroup, rather than the actual merits of the work.


micro-optimization

(programming, computer architecture) Optimization at the level of individual instructions and operations.


SuperBASIC

structured programming
structured programming

(programming) An extended version of the BASIC programming language that allowed for structured programming.


structured programming

(computing) A style of programming that relies on blocks of code, subroutines and the absence of simple tests and jumps


octacore

(computing, of a microprocessor) Composed of eight cores.


decacore

(computing, of a microprocessor) Composed of 10 cores.


class-based programming

class-based programming (plural class-based programmings)

(programming) A programming style, where inheritance is achieved by using classes of objects.


prototype-based programming

prototype-based programming (plural prototype-based programmings)

(programming) A programming style, where inheritance is achieved by using existing objects via delegation that act as prototypes.


buttonize

en-verb

buttonize (third-person singular simple present buttonizes, present participle buttonizing, simple past and past participle buttonized)

buttonizes (present singular third-person)
buttonizing (participle present)
buttonized (participle past)
buttonized (past)

(transitive, computer graphics) To apply bevelled edges to (a visual element), giving it the appearance of a push-button.


gskew

(computing, attributive) A form of branch predictor that implements multiple prediction mechanisms with different indexing functions.


branch predictor

en-noun

branch predictor (plural branch predictors)

(computing) A digital circuit that tries to predict which way a branch structure will go, so as to improve the flow in the instruction pipeline.


NVP

Network Voice Protocol
w:Network Voice Protocol

(networking) Initialism of Network Voice Protocol.


surjunctive

We prove that pre-injective, post-surjective cellular automata over surjunctive groups are reversible.

2015, Silvio Capobianco, Jarkko Kari, Siamak Taati, “Post-surjectivity and balancedness of cellular automata over groups”, in arXiv

(mathematics) Describing a group whose every injective cellular automaton is surjective


BBCode

From BB + code, short for bulletin board code.

(Internet) A lightweight markup language, with tags in square brackets, used to format posts on message boards.


IFS

Input Field Separators
w:Input Field Separators

(computing, Unix) Initialism of Input Field Separators.


tryte

The Poliz-program did not consist of commands of different addresses; instead, it used short word logic of 6-trit trytes. As an element of a program, we defined a tryte (the smallest addressable unit) for addressing or for operating.

2011, John Impagliazzo, Perspectives on Soviet and Russian Computing

(computing) The ternary equivalent of a byte.


lookbehind

lookbehind (countable and uncountable, plural lookbehinds)

[There] are times when it's useful to be able to look to the left of the current position being considered to see what the past had to say about a particular pattern. That is the purpose of lookbehinds.

2004, Mehran Habibi, Java Regular Expressions: Taming the java.util.regex Engine

(regular expressions) The analysis of the preceding characters before the regular expression is matched.


random encounter

random encounter (plural random encounters)

(video games, roleplaying games) A battle that starts at an unpredictable time, against random enemies.


unsort

en-verb

unsort (third-person singular simple present unsorts, present participle unsorting, simple past and past participle unsorted)

unsorts (present singular third-person)
unsorting (participle present)
unsorted (participle past)
unsorted (past)

From un- + sort, apparently by confusion of unravel, untangle or similar and sort.

And what if we want to unsort an array? The shuffle ( ) function uses PHP's random number generator to re-arrange the elements of an array randomly.

1999, Jesus Castagnetto, Professional PHP Programming, page 162

(computing) To shuffle a data structure so that it is no longer sorted.


array decay

(programming) The conversion of an array variable into a pointer to its first element.


garbage collected

Java is a garbage collected language.

(programming) Featuring garbage collection.

You should use a garbage collected class here.

(programming) Suscepible to garbage collection.


copy elision

(software compilation) An optimisation technique where a value is transferred to the final target address, instead of being copied and then destroyed.


iPad

From i- + pad. Apple trademark, from their "i-" series of products; especially their iOS products, the iPod and iPhone.

(trademark) A lightweight low-power tablet computer of a particular range from Apple Inc.


Cook reduction

(computing theory) A Turing reduction that runs in polynomial time.


Turing reduction

en-noun

Turing reduction (plural Turing reductions)

(computing theory) A reduction that solves a problem if the solution to another problem is already known, i.e. an algorithm that could be used to solve A if it had available to it a subroutine for solving B.


holepunch

en-verb

holepunch (third-person singular simple present holepunches, present participle holepunching, simple past and past participle holepunched)

holepunches (present singular third-person)
holepunching (participle present)
holepunched (participle past)
holepunched (past)

(computing, networking) Alternative form of hole punch, to create a port forwarding on the router.


Chipzilla

From chip + -zilla, attributed to Terry Shannon.


multigranular

(computing) Offering multiple levels of granularity.


deadlockable

a deadlockable algorithm

(computing) Capable of entering a state of deadlock.


multigranularity

(computing) The property of being multigranular.


deprovision

deprovision (third-person singular simple present deprovisions, present participle deprovisioning, simple past and past participle deprovisioned)

deprovisions (present singular third-person)
deprovisioning (participle present)
deprovisioned (participle past)
deprovisioned (past)

Normally, you would deprovision a Chromebook before sending it in for repair or before disposing of it—for example, selling the Chromebook or donating it.

2018, Guy Hart-Davis, Deploying Chromebooks in the Classroom: Planning, Installing, and Managing Chromebooks in Schools and Colleges, Apress, page 347

(transitive, computing) To free up or delete the accounts, resources, etc. of (a system, or a user who will no longer be using a system).


Sensi

(UK, slang, video games) Sensible Software, a British software house active during the 1980s and 1990s.

(UK, slang, video games) Sensible Soccer, a football video game series published by Sensible Software.


Verilog

(computer languages, hardware) A language used to design and model electronic circuits


OS-specific

en-adj

OS-specific (comparative more OS-specific, superlative most OS-specific)

more OS-specific (comparative)
most OS-specific (superlative)

(software) written for a specific operating system


JVM-specific

JVM-specific (comparative more JVM-specific, superlative most JVM-specific)

more JVM-specific (comparative)
most JVM-specific (superlative)

(software) written specifically for the Java Virtual Machine


CLR-specific

CLR-specific (comparative more CLR-specific, superlative most CLR-specific)

more CLR-specific (comparative)
most CLR-specific (superlative)

Common Language Runtime
Common Language Runtime

(software) Specific to the Common Language Runtime.


MMN

We should all know by now that Mystery Meat Navigation is not for use on "real" sites. I wondered how I could make MMN even worse.

2005, Alan Tapp, Principles of Direct and Database Marketing, page 234

mystery meat navigation
mystery meat navigation#English

(Internet) Initialism of mystery meat navigation.


magic string

(programming) A text input that is never expected to be received in normal conditions and that activates otherwise hidden functionality.


tgd

tuple-generating dependency
tuple-generating dependency#English

(computing) Initialism of tuple-generating dependency.


egd

equality-generating dependency
equality-generating dependency#English

(computing) Initialism of equality-generating dependency.


quarter-sucker

So called because they encourage the player to keep inserting coins (such as quarters) to continue play.

He is a hired gun, a freelance designer/programmer of quarter-suckers.

1983, Timothy Skelly, Shoot the robot, then shoot mom

Yet the early 80s was a magical - and expensive - time for fans of this new breed of interactive entertainment, with hordes of quarter-suckers based on the "blast the space ship" theme.


pwd

(computing) Unix command to print the working directory


WU

(computing) Initialism of Windows Update.