CCITT High Level Language

THE CCITT HIGH LEVEL PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE

1978, Third International Conference on Software Engineering for Telecommunication Switching Systems, 27-29 June, 1978, Institution of Electrical Engineers, page 36

Introduction to the CCITT High Level Language (title)

1980, Robert M. Fenichel, Introduction to the CCITT High Level Language, Defense Technical Information Center

This language is known as CCITT high level language (CHILL).

2006, P. Gnanasivam, Telecommunication Switching and Networks, New Age International, page 130

programming language
programming language

(computing) a procedural programming language of the CCITT designed for use in telecommunication switches and still in use for legacy systems in some telecommunication companies and for signal box programming.


data access object

en-noun

data access object (plural data access objects)

software engineering
software engineering

(software engineering) An object in programming that provides an abstract interface to some type of persistence mechanism, providing some specific data operations without exposing details of the persistence layer.


unique identifier

unique identifier (plural unique identifiers)

(computing) Any identifier that is guaranteed to be unique among all others used for objects and for a specific purpose.


ptr

1993, lbunch, “C++ dynamic array of ptrs”, in comp.sys.mac.oop.macapp3 (Usenet):

1998, Malcolm Watts, “Passing memory ptrs between lib and C++ code ?”, in comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.memory (Usenet):


cryptoprocessor

(cryptography) A dedicated computer on a chip or microprocessor that carries out cryptographic operations.


Microspeak

Actually, preview, in Microspeak, is what blunter software companies call "beta" — meaning incomplete, buggy, and unsupported.

2002, James Gleick, What just happened: a chronicle from the information frontier

Welcome to the world of Microspeak — the unofficial language of Microsoft.

2003, Steven Lattimore McShane, Mary Ann Young Von Glinow, Organizational behavior

The browser buttons, shown in Figure 7-1, are simply links that you can place on the same toolbar that holds your most frequently used bookmarks (known as "favorites" in Microspeak).

2004, Sarah Milstein, Rael Dornfest, Google: the missing manual, page 174

(informal) The computer and business jargon associated with Microsoft.


eigenclass

Singleton methods in Ruby live in a special, hidden class called the singleton class (it used to be referred to as the eigenclass, but singleton class is the current term).https://codequizzes.wordpress.com/2014/04/11/singleton-classes-in-ruby-aka-eigenclasses/

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

(object-oriented programming) A hidden class associated with each specific instance of another class.


double precision

(programming) A number storage format that uses two adjacent locations in memory, allowing for greater precision in the values stored.


upvalue

(computing, programming) A free variable that has been bound (closed over) with a closure.


mommy blogger

...while my sister and I are both old enough for her not to be a baby-cooing mommy blogger, she still misspells 140-character updates on Twitter.

2011, Teresa Wu, Serena Wu, My Mom Is a Fob: Earnest Advice in Broken English from Your Asian-American Mom

(informal) A mother who blogs about her children, motherhood, parenting or related topics.


unarchive

en-verb

unarchive (third-person singular simple present unarchives, present participle unarchiving, simple past and past participle unarchived)

unarchives (present singular third-person)
unarchiving (participle present)
unarchived (participle past)
unarchived (past)

Do you know what software I need to unarchive these compressed files?

(computing, transitive) To extract from a digital archive.

(computing, transitive) To remove from an archived state.


forkable

en-adj

forkable (comparative more forkable, superlative most forkable)

more forkable (comparative)
most forkable (superlative)

The debugger will support any forkable Perl program, and you can see examples in this book in Chapter 9.

2005, Richard Foley, Andy Lester, Pro Perl Debugging, page 3

(computing) Capable of being split into separate processes.

(computing) Capable of being split into separate projects.


echoplex

en-verb

echoplex (third-person singular simple present echoplexes, present participle echoplexing, simple past and past participle echoplexed)

echoplexes (present singular third-person)
echoplexing (participle present)
echoplexed (participle past)
echoplexed (past)

The device that is to echo the characters should be optioned for echoplexing. As indicated, echoplexing is often confused with the duplexes. If a character is typed, such as A, and on the terminal appears AA, the far end is echoplexing while the terminal is optioned for local displaying of the characters while they are typed.

(computing, intransitive) To echo received text characters back to the computer that sent them.


I-beam

Since it resembles a capital letter I with serifs.

In general, the cursor image is the primary concern, with different types used to indicate selected functions such as I-beams or vertical bars for text editing, a pencil for drawing, or a hand with the index finger extended […]

1992, Ben Ezzell, Borland C++ 3.0 programming

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(computing, graphical user interface) A cursor shaped like the letter I, usually indicating text that can be edited or selected.


greetz

From greets + -z.
Phonetic spelling of greets.

OK, greetz to all the real amateur radio ops and enthusiasts out there.

2000, MattD.., “Greetz! And Mark, where are ya?”, in uk.radio.amateur (Usenet)

2003, [sis], “Greetz from Poland ;)”, in soc.culture.czecho-slovak (Usenet):

(often demoscene) Greetings; Alternative form of greets


crossplay

(video games) Cross-platform multiplayer functionality.


BMP

Basic Multilingual Plane
w:Basic Multilingual Plane

(computing) Initialism of Basic Multilingual Plane, one of the sets of character codepoints in Unicode, formally known as Plane 0; the conventional full set of all characters in basic Unicode, using the 65,536-codepoint range from U+0000 through U+FFFF.

Basic Multilingual Plane

Bean-Managed Persistence
w:Bean-Managed Persistence

(computing) Initialism of Bean-Managed Persistence, persistence form of Enterprise JavaBeans.


BMP

(computing, file format) Abbreviation of bitmap.

batch message processor
batch message processor#English

(computing) Initialism of batch message processor.


read-through

A read-through cache presents a simple abstraction to the calling code, which no longer has to handle the case where the information is available but not cached.

(computing) A cache that will fetch information from the original source when asked for information that is not yet cached.


listview

Without a doubt, many programs would benefit if their listboxes and listviews supported dragging-and-dropping. Such listviews with draggable items are commonly used to gather items in a desired set for the user.

1995, Alan Cooper, About face: the essentials of user interface design

(graphical user interface) A user interface control that can display a series of icons, possibly with accompanying text captions.


hexacore

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


pinnable

Important menus, such as the root menu or Workspace menu, are "pinnable," which means that you can pin them up and keep them on your desktop […]

1994, Linda Mui, Valerie Quercia, X User Tools, page 312

(computing, graphical user interface) Capable of being pinned (attached to part of the screen display).


browsewrap

en-noun

browsewrap (usually uncountable, plural browsewraps)

From browse + wrap, modelled on clickwrap, itself modelled on shrinkwrap.

Relative to clickwrap, browsewrap is easily ignored by consumers, leaving them more vulnerable to exploitation.

2004, Louis S. Freeman, Tax strategies for corporate acquisitions, dispositions, spin-offs, joint ventures, financings, reorganizations and restructurings

(law, Internet) A form of clickwrap license where the user must consent to the terms in order to use a website.


prefork

en-verb

prefork (third-person singular simple present preforks, present participle preforking, simple past and past participle preforked)

preforks (present singular third-person)
preforking (participle present)
preforked (participle past)
preforked (past)

(computing, transitive) To fork (a process) in advance, so that additional similar processes are immediately available if required later.


sargable

(databases, of a query) Able to use indexes to speed up execution.


tickable

A tick is an event that occurs for every N low-level tickable statements executed by the parser within the declare block.

2017, Branko Ajzele, Mastering PHP 7, page 143

(programming, PHP) Of a program instruction: counted for the purpose of generating periodic signals every few instructions.


multitap

(video games) A peripheral for video game consoles that increases the number of controller ports, allowing more players to participate.


turn-by-turn navigation

(electronics, computing, automotive) A feature of GPS devices, particularly smartphones, that continuously gives directions as the person or vehicle approaches navigation points.


glider gun

But in one position and phase of a 2-bee shuttle (the standard glider gun), the debris evolves into a glider and sails away before the bees return.

1989 October 31, Scott Huddleston, “life: glider guns”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

Alas this transformation by itself increases traversal length of the circuit because these new glider guns are much larger.

1998, M. Delorme, Jacques Mazoyer, Cellular automata: a parallel model, page 64

In particular, since those two patterns extend their repetitions endlessly to the left and right, there is no need for a "glider gun" to provide a continuous supply of new patterns, as you suggest.

2005 January 2, Kent Dolan, “Re: Smaller UTM than Rule110”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

(cellular automata) In the Game of Life, any pattern that "fires" out gliders.


placeblog

In the past year, the word Bloglyn has been cropping up a lot, a reflection of the fact that Brooklyn, particularly brownstone Brooklyn, has emerged as possibly the center of the placeblog world.

2007 July 8, Gregory Beyer, “Cracker-Barrel 2.0”, in New York Times

(Internet, neologism) A blog dealing with the news and daily life of a community, written by its inhabitants.


RBAC

role-based access control
w:role-based access control

(computer security) Initialism of role-based access control.


ISAPI

w:Internet Server Application Programming Interface

(Internet) Initialism of Internet Server Application Programming Interface.


WCF

(computing) Initialism of Windows Communication Foundation (a runtime and a set of APIs in the .NET Framework used to build connected, service-oriented applications)


reverse proxy

(networking) A proxy that retrieves information on behalf of a client from possibly multiple servers


maplet

Michael J. Caulfield, Gannon University (1046-O1-346) 10:40AM - (1105) A maplet for encoding, decoding, and correcting errors in Golay codes.

2009 January, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, volume 56, number 1

(computing, mathematics) An applet written in the computer algebra system Maple.


WSIT

w:Web Services Interoperability Technology

(computing, Internet) Initialism of Web Services Interoperability Technology.


JAXB

Java Architecture for XML Binding
w:Java Architecture for XML Binding

(programming, dated) Initialism of Java Architecture for XML Binding.

Jakarta XML Binding
w:Jakarta XML Binding

(programming) Initialism of Jakarta XML Binding.


CDDL

(law, software) Initialism of Common Development and Distribution License.


JWSDP

Java Web Services Development Pack
w:Java Web Services Development Pack

(software) Initialism of Java Web Services Development Pack.


SAAJ

SOAP with Attachments API for Java
w:SAAJ

(software) Initialism of SOAP with Attachments API for Java.


JAX-RPC

Java API for XML-based RPC
w:Java API for XML-based RPC

(software) Abbreviation of Java API for XML-based RPC.


StAX

Streaming API for XML
w:Streaming API for XML

(computing) Initialism of Streaming API for XML.


SPL

(software) Initialism of Sun Public License.

(software, PHP) Initialism of Standard PHP Library.


OSGi

(computing) Initialism of Open Services Gateway initiative.


NTLM

(computing) Initialism of NT LAN Manager.


WSRP

Web Services for Remote Portlets
w:Web Services for Remote Portlets

(computing) Initialism of Web Services for Remote Portlets.


OASIS

(computing) Acronym of Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards.


WSIA

w:Web Services for Interactive Applications

(computing, Internet) Initialism of Web Services for Interactive Applications.


HPC

high-performance computing
w:High-performance computing

(computing) Initialism of high-performance computing.


botmaster

Tracking the botmaster to her true physical location is a complex problem that is described in detail in the next section.

2010, John R. Vacca, Network and System Security, page 207

[The worm] had spread silently for six days before it began regularly trying to connect with its botmaster, who could have been hiding behind any of the 250 domain names the worm generated afresh each day.

2012 February 19, Mark Bowden, “War of the cyber worm: the most destructive attack on the internet”, in The Guardian

(Internet, computer security) A malicious hacker who controls a botnet.


OOD

en-noun

OOD (countable and uncountable, plural OODs)

(uncountable, computing, design) Initialism of object-oriented design.


OOA

OOA (countable and uncountable, plural OOAs)

(computing, design) Initialism of object-oriented analysis.

(computing, design) Initialism of object-oriented application.


MOSS

MIME Object Security Services
w:MIME Object Security Services

(computing) Acronym of MIME Object Security Services.


MOSS

Map Overlay and Statistical System
w:Map Overlay and Statistical System

(software) Acronym of Map Overlay and Statistical System.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
w:Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

(software) Acronym of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server.


OOAD

(computing) Initialism of object-oriented analysis and design.


traceback

traceback (countable and uncountable, plural tracebacks)

(chiefly computing) Determination of origin; the process of tracing something back to its source.

... which appears in the top line of the traceback, looking for the point at which the system is likely to have become corrupted . The ability to read and use tracebacks is a skill no MOO administrator should be without .

2001, Cynthia A. Haynes, Jan Rune Holmevik, High Wired: On the Design, Use, and Theory of Educational MOOs, University of Michigan Press, page 155

In programs where functions can be called from multiple places , the call stack can help you determine which call led to the error . Python displays the traceback whenever a raised exception goes unhandled . But you can also obtain it[…]

2019 November 12, Al Sweigart, Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, 2nd Edition: Practical Programming for Total Beginners, No Starch Press, page 252

This is a single-stage traceback. It begins by announcing itself as a traceback and then gives a location in line 1 of "<stdin>" (i.e., your typing, or standard input). It also specifies any method that the exception is raised in: in[…]

2010 March 10, Tim Hall, J-P Stacey, Python 3 for Absolute Beginners, Apress, page 235

(computing) A stack trace (in some programming languages)


preblog

In a preblog world it is unlikely that Jack's story would have spread much further than his family and circle of friends. However, Jack's blog provided other people a window into his life...

2007, Mark Tremayne, Blogging, citizenship, and the future of media

“A killed story used to be pretty much dead unless it got leaked to another newspaper,” Mr. Roderick said of the preblog era of print-based newspapers.

2007 July 30, Andrew Adam Newman, “New Life on the Web for a Killed Newspaper Column”, in New York Times


SST

(computing) Initialism of Shiva Smart Tunneling.


voice recognition

The app also employs voice recognition, letting users simply announce what they're searching for.

2011 January 27, Katie Rooney, “50 Best iPhone Apps 2011”, in Time


OMT

OMT (countable and uncountable, plural OMTs)

(computing, design) Initialism of Object Model Template.

(computing, design) Initialism of Object-Modeling Technique.


speech recognition

(computing) The function of a front-end software system which processes input in the form of spoken language into a sequence of phonemes or characters, or into electronic commands for a computing system.

تعرف على الكلام

software function that processes spoken input


Cygwin

Formed from Cygnus Solutions and Windows.

(computing) A POSIX-compatible environment that runs natively on Microsoft Windows.


MinGW

(programming) Acronym of Minimalist GNU for Windows.


MSYS

(software, acronym) Initialism of Minimal System, a component of MinGW.


Interix

(software) an optional, full-featured POSIX and UNIX environment subsystem for Microsoft's Windows NT-based operating systems


catenet

From (con)catenating networks. Coined by French computer scientist Louis Pouzin in October 1973.

coinage

Furthermore, it is assumed that each catenet gateway can report a certain minimum amount of status information to an internetwork monitoring center for the purpose of identifying and isolating catenet failures, collecting minimal performance statistics and so on.

1979, V.G. Cerf, “Part 4. Network Application”, “DARPA Activities in Packet Network Interconnection”, in Kenneth G. Beauchamp, editor, Interlinking of Computer Networks: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute held at Bonas, France, August 28 - September 8, 1978, D. Reidel Publishing Company, page 292

A gateway interconnects heterogeneous networks or catenets both physically and logically.

1984, Advances in Instrumentation: Proceedings of the ISA International Conference and Exhibit, page 997

The TCP connections have been maintained open over the catenet with reliable data transfer not just for seconds or minutes but for many hours or even days.

1987, John Haefner, Edward Brady, “Session 1 - The Status of of the Lower Layers”, “Operating in an NATO Environment”, in Rainer W. G. Herbers, editor, The Upper Layers of Open Systems Interconnection: Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Interoperability of ADP Systems, The Hague, The Netherlands, 25-29 March 1985, D. Reidel Publishing Company, page 57

It is of great importance to have realistic models for an end to end delay analysis in such heterogeneous catenet environments.

1988, Data Communication Systems and Their Performance: Proceedings of the Third IFIP TC6/WG 7.3 International Conference on Data Communication Systems and Their Performance, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 22-25 June, 1987, page 442

Instead, each ring within a source routed catenet is assigned a unique 12 bit ring number, allowing for a maximum of 4,096 rings in a single catenet. (Don’t worry; no source routed catenet has ever approached this limit, or likely ever will.)

2000, Rich Seifert, The Switch Book: The Complete Guide to LAN Switching Technology, John Wiley & Sons Inc., page 256

The Internet can be used for interconnecting campus network to campus network, connecting campus networks to sources of public information, and connecting between stations inside and outside the catenet. / The extension of the catenet to global distances provides the opportunity for enterprise stations to address the stations (clients or servers) in the catenet or stations anywhere within the millions of users in the Internet community.

2004, E. Bryan Carne, “Chapter 6. Protecting Enterprise Catenets”, in A Professional’s Guide to Data Communication in a TCP/IP World, Artech House, “1. Operating Environment”, “2. Interconnections”, page 108

(networking) A system of packet-switched communication networks interconnected via gateways.


unstuff

en-verb

unstuff (third-person singular simple present unstuffs, present participle unstuffing, simple past and past participle unstuffed)

unstuffs (present singular third-person)
unstuffing (participle present)
unstuffed (participle past)
unstuffed (past)

If I send you an attachment as a Zip file, can you unstuff it and print it up here?”

2007 August 24, Roger Mummert, “At a Family Gathering, an Internet Cafe Breaks Out”, in New York Times

(transitive, computing) To decompress (a compressed archive in the StuffIt format).


aftergame

(video games) Bonus features, dialogue, etc. accessed when a previously-beaten video game is revisited.


deduplicate

deduplicate (third-person singular simple present deduplicates, present participle deduplicating, simple past and past participle deduplicated)

deduplicates (present singular third-person)
deduplicating (participle present)
deduplicated (participle past)
deduplicated (past)

(transitive, computing) To eliminate redundant duplicate data from.

poistaa kaksoiskappaleet

to eliminate redundant duplicate data from


RRD

en-noun

RRD (countable and uncountable, plural RRDs)

(computing) Initialism of reduced resolution dataset.

Round-Robin Database
w:Round-Robin Database

(computing, databases) Initialism of Round-Robin Database.


TWAIN

From twain, in reference to a line in Rudyard Kipling's poem The Ballad of East and West: "never the twain shall meet". This was chosen to reflect the difficulty, at the time, of connecting scanners and personal computers.

(computing) A standard software protocol and applications programming interface (API) that regulates communication between software applications and imaging devices such as scanners and digital cameras.


showplan

The showplan provides insight about how SQL Server is going to process a SQL statement. If you know what to look for in a showplan, the information it provides can be useful for tuning queries.

2002, Mark Spenik, Orryn Sledge, Microsoft SQL Server 2000 DBA Survival Guide, page 526

(databases) A text or graphical summary of how the system plans to optimize the execution of a query.


antitracking

(computing, software, Internet) Of a system or application, preventing a website from gathering or collecting personal data or information.


ECS

(computing, Commodore Amiga) Initialism of enhanced chipset.


unfocus

en-verb

unfocus (third-person singular simple present unfocuses or unfocusses, present participle unfocusing or unfocussing, simple past and past participle unfocused or unfocussed)

unfocuses (present singular third-person)
unfocusses (present singular third-person)
unfocusing (participle present)
unfocussing (participle present)
unfocused (participle past)
unfocused (past)
unfocussed (participle past)
unfocussed (past)

to unfocus a window

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface, transitive) To move the input focus away from.


preshift

[…] and the preshifts required to move the rectangle up one, right two or up one, left two.

1983, Ken Williams, Bob Kernaghan, Lisa Kernaghan, Apple II Computer Graphics, page 156

(computer graphics) A shift performed in advance.


kezboard

From keyboard, with z taking the place of y (as it does on such keyboards).

(computing, slang) A computer keyboard whose keys are arranged in the qwertz layout.


tweetheart

My colleague in the US, Heather Hopkins recently covered the blaze of publicity around Oprah Winfrey starting to tweet and its immediate impact on Twitter’s US share of visits. In Australia the influences seem to be broader than America’s new 'tweetheart’.

2009 April 28, Alan Long, “Oprah may be America's Tweetheart, but she doesn't make the earth move Downunder!”, in Digital Ministry

When Vanity Fair published a story earlier this year on a group of all-American, all-white "tweethearts," the real Twitterati took the magazine to task for ignoring a growing force on Twitter: African-Americans.

2010 May 6, Ki Mae Heussner, “Is Twitter Disproportionately Popular Among Black Users?”, in ABC News

Thursday night's "Daily Show" began with another thorough take-down of John McCain's stance on Don't Ask Don't Tell, but afterward Jon Stewart moved on to McCain's 2008 Presidential running mate Sarah Palin, who he dubbed "America's Tweetheart."
Palin has taken to Twitter to vent her frustrations with Obama's handling of the latest WikiLeaks document drop, but Stewart believes her outrage is primarily unfounded.

2010 December 3, Katla McGlynn, “Stewart Mocks Media's Obsession With Sarah Palin's Tweets”, in The Huffington Post

One of the latest twilebrities is Simmons alumna Julia Roy, '05. She was named "America's Tweetheart" by Vanity Fair, which called her a "26-year-old New York social strategist turned twilebrity."

2011 March 3, Victoria Solomon, “Simmons alum named 'America's Tweetheart'”, in The Simmons Voice

(Internet slang) A Twitter user who is popular with others.

"I liked the idea of people who don't really know each other except through short messages getting together and meeting for the first time, putting a face to a name, and also telling people how much I enjoy reading their updates," said Tim Lara, Twitter user @timothydanger. "Meeting new tweeps was nice too. I gained a couple of tweethearts since then and enjoy the banter. (My twitter is never serious)."

2009 September 5, C.J. Castillo, “Tweetups: Meeting the people behind the tweets”, in Victoria Advocate

"Just got the imaging for my new fragrance Radiance and thought I'd share it with all my tweethearts," she wrote.

2010 August 8, “No new Britney music in pipeline”, in Daily Mirror

Kim, 29, treated herself to the frozen snack following a photo shoot earlier that morning, which she wrote about on her Twitter account:
'Morning tweet hearts! Heading to a fab photo shoot for ShoeDazzle.com!'

2010 August 10, “Louboutins, check! Make-up, check! Kim Kardashian is ready to buy a yoghurt”, in Daily Mail

There is the local angle - if you are one of the desperate spruikers who interpreted Kim Clijsters' twittering "Happy Australia Day to all my Aussie tweethearts" as an indication her heart beats green and gold, even if her dress was only a half-hearted green.

2011 January 27, Richard Hinds, “No football or meat pies, it's down to foreign stars”, in The Age

(Internet slang) A Twitter user who is one's personal friend or within one's broader social networking circle.

"I actually met my girlfriend on Twitter," says Verdino, who has been tweeting for the last two years. "We call ourselves tweethearts."

2009 February 4, Luann Lasalle, “Tweeting with tweople: Twitter spawns new vocabulary - but beware of twitterhea”, in Winnipeg Free Press

When I got to my car and dialed up my friend to tell her about the tweetheart I just met she informed me she just got a tweet from Lindsay Lohan.

2009 March 9, “Learning Just How Tweet It Is”, in The Lowell Sun

Taylor Lukacin wants to help you find your “tweetheart”. This afternoon (May 7), the 20-year-old, White Rock-born blogger will give a talk at the 2010 Northern Voice conference that she’s calling "Social Media Flirting 101".

2010 May 7, Stephen Hui, “Geek Speak: Taylor Lukacin, UBC student blogger”, in The Georgia Staight

"They did me a Twitter when I started this book," he said. "I had a load of girls who did the Twitter and I dubbed them my Tweethearts, and my true Tweetheart, my wife, does my Twitter now, because I can't do it."

2010 October 27, Mark Egan, “For Michael Caine's second act, another memoir”, in Reuters

2011 Kate Jones, "Aussie tweethearts say 'I do'", Herald Sun, 16 April 2011 (used in headline only)

(Internet slang) A Twitter user with whom one is infatuated or involved romantically, especially if they were first met through the service.


Windows key

First appeared on a Microsoft keyboard in 1994.

(computing) A key on a computer keyboard bearing the Microsoft Windows logo, used to open the Start menu and as a modifier key for various other functions.


Start menu

(computing) A menu in some operating systems that is launched by pressing an on-screen button and provides a central launching point for applications and tasks.


romset

I am looking for a rom dump of a Swedish or Finnish C64. They seem to have an alternate romset than the ones used elsewhere (probably because of the characters used in those countries).

2000, Ben Castricum, “Searching for a Swedish/Finnish C64 romset”, in comp.sys.cbm (Usenet)

You are right re the romsets, MAME uses different sets for a lot of games, you can't intermix Neorage and MAME sets.

2001, Paul Irvine, “NeoGeo”, in uk.games.video.misc (Usenet)

(video games) A group of related ROM images required to emulate a particular game.


billboarding

Early first-person shooter games used billboarding for enemies rather than full character models.

(computer graphics) A technique in three-dimensional graphics in which a sprite is rendered perpendicular to the camera without respect to camera movement.


unexecute

unexecute (third-person singular simple present unexecutes, present participle unexecuting, simple past and past participle unexecuted)

unexecutes (present singular third-person)
unexecuting (participle present)
unexecuted (participle past)
unexecuted (past)

(transitive, computing) To undo (a command or operation previously executed).


toon shading

(computer graphics) Synonym of cel shading


cel shading

(computer graphics) A style of non-photorealistic rendering suggesting the flat, hand-drawn appearance of a comic or cartoon.


facemail

It's been said that some high-tech experts think so little of actual conversation that they call it “facemail,” in their minds an inefficient and inferior form of communication.

2001, Andrew Finlayson, Questions that work

So we had a facemail meeting and took him out to the woodshed, so to speak.

2002, Zack Urlocker, Valley of the Geeks

That cyberlanguage has become firmly established in language communities can be observed in the practice of turning common, everyday expressions into technical metaphor: [...] talking personally is to use facemail, [...]

2006, Donna Gibbs, Kerri-Lee Krause, Cyberlines 2.0: languages and cultures of the Internet

(computing, technology) Face-to-face communication, as opposed to other non-personal forms of communication.


facemail

en-noun

facemail (countable and uncountable, plural facemails)

Zaria was surprised as she opened her e-mail a few days later to find new facemail from none other than Michael Kennedy. [...] I was surprised that you accepted my friend request, but then receiving facemail from you ... Am I dreaming? ...

(Internet) An email message sent via Facebook.


time attack

Calque of Japanese タイムアタック (taimu atakku), itself from English.

clq

Starting off in Japan, Time Attack, Super Lap and Tuner Battles were organised by the media as a proving ground to see the difference between street tuned cars, produced by the tuning industries most respected tuners.

2006, “Time Attack FAQ's”, in Time Attack - Official Website, archived from the original on 2007-09-12

There are only eight levels but the varied game modes (including time attacks, survivals, team deathmatches, hunts, and sieges) in both single and multi-player keeps things interesting.

(motor racing, video games) Synonym of time trial


LQTM

quantum Turing machine
w:quantum Turing machine

(computer science, quantum mechanics) Initialism of linear quantum Turing machine.


subthread

The program spawns a new subthread for each request made by the user.

(computing) A thread of execution that is subordinate to another thread.

(Internet) A thread of messages on a forum etc. that is hierarchically beneath another thread or message.


clique number

(graph theory) The number of vertices in a maximum clique of a given graph.

Clique (graph theory)
Glossary of graph theory


trackerball

(computing) Alternative form of trackball


heal up

en-verb

heal up (third-person singular simple present heals up, present participle healing up, simple past and past participle healed up)

heals up (present singular third-person)
healing up (participle present)
healed up (participle past)
healed up (past)

Find a safe place where you can heal up before returning to the scene of combat.

(intransitive, video games) To heal one's character.


combining character

en-noun

combining character (plural combining characters)

You can display c with macron (c̄) by merging the combining character macron with the letter c.

Around 500 precomposed Latin letters, for instance, in the Unicode standard are superfluous, in that they can be represented using combining character sequences.

2009, Ian H. Witten, David Bainbridge, David M. Nichols, How to Build a Digital Library, 2nd edition, Morgan Kaufmann, page 383

(computing) A character that modifies the appearance of other characters (which are called base characters).


rmgroup

From rm (“Abbreviation of remove”) + group. Internal name of the message, short for remove group.

The capability somewhat exists in the rmgroup control message now; just define MANUALLY in your defs.h file. This should be extended to the other control messages.

1982 June 4, Joe Presley, “control messages to administrators (whuxlb.279)”, in net.news.b (Usenet)

Every Usenet groups, and all its associated problems, will have been wiped off the face of the Earth forever by the might of the rmgroup.

1993, "Leader Kibo", IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: THE FUTURE OF THE NET. (on newsgroups news.admin, news.groups, alt.config, comp.org.eff.talk, alt.religion.kibology, alt.politics.kibo, alt.sex)

A Usenet control message indicating that a newsgroup should be removed.


supersite

It is a wonder some overcaffeinated hacker hasn't cobbled together the code to scrape all of the above into one gadget shopping supersite.

2007 December 13, Paul Boutin, “A Universe of Gadget Advice”, in New York Times


subtab

The appearance of the various subtabs is quite similar to the previous tabs within the Regression node. The difference is that the various configuration settings that are displayed in the following subtabs cannot be changed.

2007, Randall Matignon, Data mining using SAS Enterprise miner, page 307

(graphical user interface) A tab that is part of another tab or section.


normie

This place is a sure cure for a gimp's feeling out of place and a sure cure for a normie feeling awkward around a wheelchair.

1980, Barry Corbet, Options: spinal cord injury and the future

You'll start eating like a normie. In fact, a small amount of food will one day look like a lot.

2006, Anne Katherine, How to make almost any diet work, page 200

Be jovial but not a comedian. We have a sense of humor that the normies don't have.

2011, Bucky Sinister, Still Standing: Addicts Talk About Living Sober, page 97

It is a career disaster now to signal your left-behind cluelessness as a basic bitch, normie or a member of the corrupt media mainstream in any way.

2017, Angela Nagle, Kill All Normies, Zero Books, Introduction

(slang, usually derogatory, sometimes Internet) A normal person; one with commonly held, normative beliefs, neurology, tastes or interests.

(slang, usually derogatory, sometimes Internet) A person who is not a member of an ingroup, such as a fandom or other (online) community; An Outsider


unfavorited

Space Saver's function is to mark all unused, unfavorited, or unkeyworded video in an Event as rejects, all in one fell swoop.

2009, David Pogue, Aaron Miller, iMovie '09 & iDVD: The Missing Manual: The Missing Manual, page 109


cyberstalk

en-verb

cyberstalk (third-person singular simple present cyberstalks, present participle cyberstalking, simple past and past participle cyberstalked)

cyberstalks (present singular third-person)
cyberstalking (participle present)
cyberstalked (participle past)
cyberstalked (past)

But when it comes to tales from my fellow midlifers, I most often find myself reading about regret and claustrophobia, fantasies surreptitiously indulged, old flames cyberstalked (including the agony of whether to hit “send” on that “Hey, you won’t believe who this is!” e-mail message), children occupying center stage as our ailing parents wait in the wings for our care ... while out of the spotlight, dangling unnoticed in the rigging, is the incredible shrinking spouse.

2008 February 10, Daniel Jones, “A Valley of Misery Between Peaks of Joy”, in New York Times

(transitive) To stalk (a person) by means of computer networks.


dynamic memory allocation

en-noun

dynamic memory allocation (countable and uncountable, plural dynamic memory allocations)

(computing) The process of allocating memory at runtime.


gzip

en-verb

gzip (third-person singular simple present gzips, present participle gzipping, simple past and past participle gzipped)

gzips (present singular third-person)
gzipping (participle present)
gzipped (participle past)
gzipped (past)

From the name of the software program, originally short for GNU zip.

One way to deal with this issue is to add the compress command, which gzips the old logs as they are rotated.

2000, Dee-Ann LeBlanc, General Linux I: exam prep

Image and PDF files should not be gzipped because they are already compressed. Trying to gzip them not only wastes CPU resources, it can also potentially increase file sizes.

2007, Steve Souders, High performance web sites: essential knowledge for frontend engineers, page 30

Therefore, using the YUI Compressor in combination with gzipping always gives the best results.

2010, Nicholas C. Zakas, High Performance JavaScript, page 171

(transitive, computing) To compress using the gzip program.


Pokémon

en-noun

Pokémon (plural Pokémon or (nonstandard) Pokémons)

Pokémon (plural)
Pokémons (nonstandard plural)

From Japanese ポケモン (Pokemon), a contraction of ポケットモンスター (Poketto Monsutā), itself from English pocket monster.

contraction

Pokémons are the latest and adamantly conformist craze among middle-childhood boys. The theme of the video games that started the craze is, as usual, the triumph of good over evil. The hero is a child, twelve-year-old Ash. His goal is to capture all 150-plus nonhuman creatures called Pokémons, train them to be good, and use them to capture the remaining wicked Pokémons that so far have escaped. In the games, Ash is not your ally: he is you. Each of the Pokémons has its own sort of power which, after conversion, accrues to Ash’s (your) favor.

2001, Sara Stein, “Games They Play”, in Noah’s Children: Restoring the Ecology of Childhood, New York, N.Y.: North Point Press, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 248

Game strategy (and tactics) are full of such learning about real life, like the rules, the strategy in games needs to be lifelike for the games to make sense, even if the characters, such as Pokémons, are purely imaginary.

2005, Marc Prensky, “Computer Games and Learning: Digital Game-Based Learning”, in Joost Raessens, Jeffrey Goldstein, editors, Handbook of Computer Game Studies, Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, part II (Design), page 106, column 2

He had been delighted when his mother said, Just leave everything as it is. Not even his bed was made. He could see that little kid’s mess, his clothes, his Pokémons, his old Winnie Dubdoub, his Spiderman poster; and the truck, alone in the empty house for days now, nearly two weeks.

2005, Eva Sallis, The Marsh Birds, Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, page 15

A pocket monster; a fictional creature from the universe of the Pokémon franchise.


functionoid

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

(object-oriented programming) An object that encapsulates a function pointer (or equivalent).


ultrapeer

(computing) In a peer-to-peer network, a peer capable of routing requests and responses from others rather than always adopting a direct client-server connection.


extreme programmer

en-noun

extreme programmer (plural extreme programmers)

In analyzing this tendency among engineers using agile methods, he points out that extreme programmers are told not to worry about possible new requirements until they are imposed on a system.

2006, Shari Lawrence Pfleeger, Joanne M. Atlee, Software engineering: theory and practice

(computing) A computer programmer who uses extreme programming techniques.


bloggy

en-adj

bloggy (comparative more bloggy, superlative most bloggy)

more bloggy (comparative)
most bloggy (superlative)

You can still be professional, but let your personality seep in. If you're managing the blog, give your blog writer time to develop a bloggy rhythm and writing voice. Either way, gauge the reaction from readers or other bloggers.

2006, Debbie Weil, The corporate blogging book

It is, dare I say it, too preoccupied with being respectably booky rather than wildly bloggy.

2008 March 23, David Kamp, “Permalinks”, in New York Times

(informal) Having the characteristics of a blog; resembling a blog.


antibugging

They were convinced that the error-checking and antibugging that I was suggesting would far exceed the capacity of their machine.

1975, Edward Yourdon, Techniques of program structure and design

(programming) The strategy of writing code so as to minimise the possibility of error.


autopartitioning

(computing) automatic partitioning (of a network, database, etc.)


megaportal

There are potentially dozens of jurisdictions that could claim oversight in such a deal because of the global business interests of the two huge companies and because it could potentially transform the Internet into two megaportals, Google and Microsoft.

2008 March 28, John Markoff, “China Law Could Impede Microsoft Deal for Yahoo”, in New York Times

(Internet) A very large, successful portal web site.


VHLL

(programming) Initialism of very high-level language.


nonimpact

en-noun

nonimpact (countable and uncountable, plural nonimpacts)

Q: Are nonimpacts noisier or quieter than impact printers?
A: The nonimpacts are almost silent compared to the noisy, hammer-striking printers.

1985, Melvin Berger, Computers: A Question and Answer Book, page 30

(computing, countable) A printer that is not an impact printer.


subhistory

(computer science) A history (sequence of events or actions) making up part of a larger history.


multimonitor

“Jeanne Delman” aside, Ms. Akerman’s greatest work is “D’Est” (“From the East”), a multimonitor installation piece that centers on blank-faced Eastern Europeans in train stations and other bleak surroundings.

2008 April 26, Roberta Smith, “Levitation and Smoking: Signature Images in Video Works”, in New York Times

Involving more than one display monitor.


linky

You'll see how to add links to either text or graphics and lots of other linky goodness.

2008, Dori Smith, Dreamweaver CS4 for Windows and Macintosh, page 68

(informal, Internet) Of or pertaining to hyperlinks.


DSMS

data stream management system
w:data stream management system

(computing) Initialism of data stream management system.


hashlike

en-adj

hashlike (comparative more hashlike, superlative most hashlike)

more hashlike (comparative)
most hashlike (superlative)

(computing) Resembling or characteristic of the output from a hash function.


SMG

Initialism of Standard Modern Greek (the contemporary language, taught in Greek schools since 1982).

Standard Modern Greek

(video games) Initialism of Super Mario Galaxy.


bit nibbler

(computing) A computer program that defeats some copy protection schemes by reading a disk one bit at a time, and directly interacting with the disk drive hardware.


pics or it didn't happen

Suggesting the denial of the veracity of a report of the event by demanding pictures thereof as proof.

Pug Nose: “Oh, he will.”
“Pics or it didn't happen.”

2013, Jade C. Jamison, Quickies: Sexy Short Stories and Other Stuff, page 89

“I just got out of the shower,” I explained. Will pointed down, asking playfully, “Pics or it didn't happen.” “No pics,” I snorted. “No Snapchats, no video. Sorry.”

2014, Jessa Holbrook, While You're Away, Penguin

Don’t think, just post it. “Pics or it didn’t happen” – that is the populist mantra of the social networking age. Show us what you did, so that we may believe and validate it.

2015 February 26, Jacob Silverman, “‘Pics or it didn’t happen’ – the mantra of the Instagram era”, in The Guardian

This normative expectation is perhaps best captured in the popular colloquial phrase: “Pics or it didn't happen.”

2016, Jan E. Stets, Richard T. Serpe, New Directions in Identity Theory and Research, page 147

“Nah. It can be so fake. People just post things that make them look good. You never get the whole story.” I look at my phone in my hand. Pics or it didn’t happen! Ruby likes to say.

2016, Aimee Friedman, Two Summers, Point, page 195

(Internet slang, humorous) Used to request a picture of a reported event, especially on an Internet forum.

有圖有真相

used to request a picture of a reported event


Gmailer

From Gmail + -er. Gmail is short for Google Mail.

2004, Sam Tigger, “Hotmail bounces invites from Gmailers”, in microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6.browser (Usenet):

If you don't personally know a Gmailer who'll invite you onboard, fire up Google itself and search for Gmail invitations, which should generate results with plenty of sites that dispense spare Gmail accounts...

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

If you do that, the photo appears when another Gmailer hovers the cursor over your name in his inbox or Contacts list.

2008, Nancy Conner, Google Apps: the missing manual, page 285


productionable

productionable (comparative more productionable, superlative most productionable)

more productionable (comparative)
most productionable (superlative)

(computing) ready to be placed into a production environment


exergame

(video games) A video game that also provides the player with physical exercise.


exaflop

The next thousandfold goal is the exaflop, which is a quintillion calculations per second, followed by the zettaflop, the yottaflop and the xeraflop.

2008 June 9, John Markoff, “Military Supercomputer Sets Record”, in New York Times

(computing) 10¹⁸ floating-point operations per second.


unpickle

en-verb

unpickle (third-person singular simple present unpickles, present participle unpickling, simple past and past participle unpickled)

unpickles (present singular third-person)
unpickling (participle present)
unpickled (participle past)
unpickled (past)

To reconstruct the message, the receiver must strip the length header, read the entire message, unpickle the contents, and call logging.makeLogRecord().

2009, David M. Beazley, Python essential reference, page 362

programming language
programming language

(transitive, programming, in the Python programming language) To deserialize.


autodetection

Thus the onset of "autodetection" leads, in the case of sequential resonance, to a negative peak of the current.

1972, Radio Engineering and Electronic Physics, volume 17, page 1588

Exclude as many hardware types and items from autodetection as possible. If autodetection crashes, run Setup again and exclude more items from autodetection.

1996, Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Windows NT Server Resource Kit

As with Red Hat Linux, networking is probably already set up on your system because of the autodetection done during installation.

2000, Nicholas Wells, Guide to Linux Installation and Administration, volume 1, page 83

This allowed us to engineer a network protocol for iTap that both supports autodetection and works with Windows as well as Mac OS X.

2010, David Mark, iPhone Advanced Projects, page 275


SNES

The graphics are kind of cutesy, and the music is annoying, but the game is incredibly fun and the Super Multitap is worth owning so you can play the five-player SNES games coming out in the near future. Check it out!

1994, J. Douglas Arnold, Awesome Super Nintendo Secrets 3

Emulate the SNES on the Dreamcast

2004, Simon Carless, Gaming hacks, page 64

In fact the GBA was more powerful than the SNES, and could manipulate the pixels in ways the original SNES could never do. The cartridges also had a greater capacity than the SNES, allowing for richer and more extensive play.

2006, NFGMan, Character Design for Mobile Devices

Super Nintendo Entertainment System
w:Super Nintendo Entertainment System

(video games) Initialism of Super Nintendo Entertainment System.


base character

(computing) A character whose appearance is modified by one or more combining characters.


null character

(computing) A control character with the value zero and no visual representation.


pageview

Similarly, Trueman, Wong, and Zhang found that the nonfinancial measures of unique visitors and pageviews provide additional explanatory power for stock prices, especially for e-tailers like Amazon.com.

2001, Robert G. Eccles, The ValueReporting revolution: moving beyond the earnings game, page 62

And you—you clueless, literate shmuck—are but a pawn in this game. So just let go. Just accept the fact that you are reading this column right now simply because we can count you as a number on a spreadsheet. You are a pageview, my friend. You are a "monthly unique visitor." One of millions. Nothing more, nothing less.

2012 November 28, “Please Click On Our Website's Banner Ads”, in The Onion

(Internet) An individual viewing of a web page by a user, often counted when measuring a web site's popularity.


BITNET

Abbreviation of Because It's There Network.

(computing, historical) An early North American academic computer network founded in 1981, supporting e-mail and listservs but pre-dating the World Wide Web.


nonhit

Nonhits occur when there is no definite element, such as Library of Congress or ISBN number, in the brief record...

1992, Beverly K. Duval, Linda Main, Automated library systems

information technology
information technology

information retrieval
information retrieval

(information technology) Failure to match any record in an information retrieval system.


Blend of 4k and intro. See k (“kilobyte”).

Win a price in the 4ktro compo! Win a price in the grafix compo! Win a price in the music compo! Join the Autumn Event in South Germany!

1996, Hagen Deike, “InterCon LAST CHANCE”, in fido.ger.ibm (Usenet)

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

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

(demoscene) An intro that can be stored in four kilobytes of memory (intended to challenge the programmer, who must write compact and efficient code to achieve this).


Bellman-Ford algorithm

en-noun

Bellman-Ford algorithm (plural Bellman-Ford algorithms)

Named after its developers, Richard Bellman and L. R. Ford, Jr.

Dijkstra's algorithm
Dijkstra's algorithm

(graph theory, computing) An algorithm that computes single-source shortest paths in a weighted digraph, capable (unlike the faster Dijkstra's algorithm) of handling graphs with negative edge weights.

Bellman-Ford algorithm
L. R. Ford, Jr.
Richard Bellman


Dijkstra's algorithm

/ˈdaɪkstɹəz ˈælɡəɹɪðəm/

(graph theory) An algorithm that computes single-source shortest paths in a weighted digraph.


quality of life

quality of life (countable and uncountable, plural qualities of life)

(computing) Features or improvements designed to make software easier to use without changing the main functionality.


IMAP

Internet Message Access Protocol
w:Internet Message Access Protocol

(Internet) Initialism of Internet Message Access Protocol.


servicification

The servicification of legacy enterprise solutions simplifies ongoing integration and significantly mitigates risk.

service-oriented architecture
service-oriented architecture

(computing) The migration from monolithic legacy applications to service-based components and solutions, i.e. a service-oriented architecture.


cryptoprocessing

(cryptography) Cryptographic operations carried out by a computer or cryptoprocessor.


unrar

en-verb

unrar (third-person singular simple present unrars, present participle unraring or unrarring, simple past and past participle unrared or unrarred)

unrars (present singular third-person)
unraring (participle present)
unrarring (participle present)
unrared (participle past)
unrared (past)
unrarred (participle past)
unrarred (past)

(transitive, computing) To decompress (a compressed archive in the RAR format).


random access

(computing theory) The ability to access any element of a sequence in real time, without having to seek through preceding elements.

hajasaanti

ability to access any element of a sequence without having to seek


RAR

(computing) Acronym of Roshal Archive, a proprietary data compression format.


autorefresh

Like Paradox and dBASE, Clarion offers an autorefresh facility so data displayed on your screen will be updated if its associated records are changed in the database by another user.

1991, PC Magazine, volume 10, numbers 9-10

One drawback of the console, though, was its lack of an autorefresh; it had to be updated often to display the current status information.

2005, Eriq Oliver Neale, Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 Unleashed, page 14

(computing) Any feature that automatically refreshes a screen display.


reop

reop (third-person singular simple present reops, present participle reopping, simple past and past participle reopped)

reops (present singular third-person)
reopping (participle present)
reopped (participle past)
reopped (past)

Don't reop Jack until I find out whether he's likely to cause trouble.

(transitive, Internet) To restore (a previously deopped IRC user) to operator status.


revoice

revoice (third-person singular simple present revoices, present participle revoicing, simple past and past participle revoiced)

revoices (present singular third-person)
revoicing (participle present)
revoiced (participle past)
revoiced (past)

(Internet, transitive) To restore the voice flag to a user on IRC, allowing them to send messages to the channel again.


otakukin

The definition of entertainingly nutty would be otakukin.

2006, Cypher, “Considering Snuhwolf”, in alt.horror.werewolves (Usenet)

I pointed out that you telling me that Otakukin are insane made as much sense as belief in God. Both are things taken on faith, you see?

2007, Juan Valdez, “Ping Juan Valdez”, in alt.recovery.aa (Usenet)

(dated, Internet, sometimes capitalized) A person who claims or believes that their soul is a reincarnation or parallel incarnation of a fictional character (especially, from anime, manga, or video games).


HAM

(computer graphics) Initialism of Hold-And-Modify, a display mode of the Commodore Amiga computer, allowing for a large number of colours on screen.


OHKO

(video games) An instance of defeating an opponent with a single attack; a one-hit knockout.


OHKO

OHKO (third-person singular simple present OHKOs, present participle OHKOing, simple past and past participle OHKOed)

OHKOs (present singular third-person)
OHKOing (participle present)
OHKOed (participle past)
OHKOed (past)

(transitive, video games) To defeat with a single attack.


mood message

He had his mood message set to "At work," so I didn't disturb him.

(Internet) A message set by a user of instant messaging software and displayed as part of their profile.


MWE

(computer science) Initialism of minimal working example.


crashdump

(computing) A file holding the contents of memory at the point when a program crashed, possibly useful in debugging.


dispatch table

(programming) A table of pointers to functions or methods, commonly used to implement dynamic binding.


trollable

en-adj

trollable (comparative more trollable, superlative most trollable)

more trollable (comparative)
most trollable (superlative)

A newsgroup about abortion is far more trollable than one about linguistics.

(Internet) Capable of, or suited to, being trolled (disrupted by provocative postings).


navbar

(graphical user interface) A bar, usually at the top of a web page, offering a number of links to help the user to navigate.

navigatiebalk

The bar at the top of a webpage to help users navigate


webify

en-verb

webify (third-person singular simple present webifies, present participle webifying, simple past and past participle webified)

webifies (present singular third-person)
webifying (participle present)
webified (participle past)
webified (past)

We need to webify this legacy application and bring it to the 21st century. It needs a Web interface.

The origins of our Webified age were hardly auspicious.

2010 November 11, Ben Zimmer, “Web”, in The New York Times Magazine

(transitive) To convert (content or information) into a format capable of being displayed on the World Wide Web.


macroing

Macroing means that you can record some keying sequences while you are editing a text, and later re-execute the keying sequences with a single command.

2002, Kari Laitinen, A Natural Introduction to Computer Programming with C++, page 563

In general, use of macroing for linking and relations is discouraged, as it is better expressed through classes of relation.

2010, John G. Breslin, Thomas N. Burg, Hong-Gee Kim, Recent Trends and Developments in Social Software, page 8


oper

Chanops can kick people off a channel; opers can ban people logging in from specific Internet sites from participating in IRC.

2000, Howard Rheingold, The virtual community: homesteading on the electronic frontier, number 28, page 187


MSDN

(Microsoft, software) Initialism of Microsoft Developer Network.


featureful

en-adj

featureful (comparative more featureful, superlative most featureful)

more featureful (comparative)
most featureful (superlative)

Seagears declared in the magazine's first issue that "we're going to try to make this magazine as well rounded and featureful as possible within our means."

1975, Dept. of Environmental Conservation, New York, The Conservationist (volume 30, issue 1)

Snort is not nearly as featureful as a commercial IDS, but it is free.

2003, Blair Rampling, Windows Server 2003 security bible

(chiefly computing) Having many features.


nymshifter

(Internet) One who deceptively posts messages under several different pseudonyms.


nymshift

en-verb

nymshift (third-person singular simple present nymshifts, present participle nymshifting, simple past and past participle nymshifted)

nymshifts (present singular third-person)
nymshifting (participle present)
nymshifted (participle past)
nymshifted (past)

(Internet, intransitive) To change one's pseudonym so as to appear to be posting messages as an unrelated user.


nym

(Internet) A pseudonym used when posting messages.


unbless

unbless (third-person singular simple present unblesses, present participle unblessing, simple past and past participle unblessed)

unblesses (present singular third-person)
unblessing (participle present)
unblessed (participle past)
unblessed (past)

(transitive, computing, programming, Perl) To convert (a previously blessed object) back to a simple reference.


iframe

From the name of the HTML element, short for inline frame.

This enabled developers to forego framesets altogether and simply place invisible iframes (through the use of CSS) on a page to enable client-server communication.

2006, Nicholas C. Zakas, Jeremy McPeak, Joe Fawcett, Professional Ajax, page 4

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

2011, Richard Wagner, Building Facebook Applications For Dummies

(Internet) A section of a web page that can act as the container for a second separate page or resource.


softwarematically

(rare, informal, computing) By the use of software, especially without direct user intervention.


File Transfer Protocol

en-noun

File Transfer Protocol (plural File Transfer Protocols)

A standard network protocol used to transfer files from one host to another over a TCP-based network, such as the Internet.


equijoin

(databases) A join whose predicate uses only equality comparisons.


OSI layer 8

The OSI network model consists of a hierarchical series of layers, from lowest to highest level; the human user might humorously be regarded as the next layer.


Xboxer

Xboxers can stop whining about being left out of the most amoral and hyper-violent game of all time.

2003 November, Popular Science, volume 263, number 5, page 26

(informal) An owner of a Xbox video game console.


XMP

XMP (countable and uncountable, plural XMPs)

(computing) Initialism of Extensible Metadata Platform.

(computing) Initialism of Extreme Memory Profile.


multitabbed

(computing, graphical user interface) Having multiple tabs.


Cognos

(computing) A Business Intelligence technology, produced by Canadian company Cognos software, which was bought by IBM.


rollup

Between issuance of service packs, Microsoft released update rollups for Exchange Server on a regular basis […]

2014, Michel de Rooij, Jaap Wesselius, Pro Exchange 2013 SP1 PowerShell Administration

(computing) A collection of software updates distributed as a single package.


pop-in

(computer graphics, video games) A performance issue in three-dimensional graphics, causing objects or textures to "pop" suddenly into view as they are loaded, rather than smoothly moving into view.


metadatabase

(databases) A database that serves to catalogue and classify other databases.


unswitched

(physics, computing) Directly connected without an intervening switch.


joystick waggler

joystick waggler (plural joystick wagglers)

Popeye 3 is an out-and-out joystick waggler. While Zeppelin's Tag Team Wrestling used the old 'press fire with a direction' control method, to beat your opponent in Popeye 3, you have two stages of frenetic wrist-mangling.

1992, Jon Pillar, Popeye III (game review) in Your Sinclair 83, November 1992

It's not an exact simulation and it's not a joystick waggler. It is basically CM2 for cricket.

1998, Mike Fairweather, “International cricket captain, opinions wanted”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.sports (Usenet)

Could be wrong but I'm sure T&F and several of the other give-the-controls-a-good-twatting games were actually button bashers rather than joystick wagglers. Bit picky I know.....

2003, Nomenluni, “What Speccy game should have been in the arcade?”, in comp.sys.sinclair (Usenet)

(video games, informal) A video game, usually based on a sport, where the player must build up and maintain speed or energy by rapidly moving the joystick back and forth.


bootload

(computing) The work done by a boot loader; the startup of an operating system.


TPS

TPS (countable and uncountable, plural TPS's or TPSes)

third-person shooter
third-person shooter#English

software engineering
software engineering

(software engineering) Initialism of testing procedure specification.


autodelete

en-verb

autodelete (third-person singular simple present autodeletes, present participle autodeleting, simple past and past participle autodeleted)

autodeletes (present singular third-person)
autodeleting (participle present)
autodeleted (participle past)
autodeleted (past)

(computing, transitive, intransitive) To delete automatically.


Kibologist

From Kibology + -ist. Coined by James Parry.

But UNIX will never compete with MTS until it has "$DISPLAY TIMESPELLEDOUT", *PIZZADELIVERY, and the famous sausage transfer protocol ("$FTP LINK=SAUSAGE"--gee, doesn't that look like it was implemented by a Kibologist?)

1992 January 2, James 'Kibo' Parry, “Hello?”, in alt.sex.masturbation (Usenet)

An adherent of the parody religion Kibology.


embarrassingly parallel

en-adj

embarrassingly parallel (comparative more embarrassingly parallel, superlative most embarrassingly parallel)

more embarrassingly parallel (comparative)
most embarrassingly parallel (superlative)

We derive our embarrassingly parallel VI algorithm, analyze our method theoretically, and demonstrate our method empirically on a few nonconjugate models.

2015, Willie Neiswanger, Chong Wang, Eric Xing, “Embarrassingly Parallel Variational Inference in Nonconjugate Models”, in arXiv

(computing, programming, of a particular problem) Very easy to separate into a number of parallel tasks.


McQuary limit

After George F. McQuary, a frequent contributor to the newsgroup alt.fan.warlord where flamboyant signatures were criticised.

Only 5 lines, so it just squeezes past the McQuary limit, but what a stylish BUAF for your collections, I only hope Kibo is reading.

1992 October 14, David Philip Langstaff, “Wanted...”, in alt.fan.warlord (Usenet)

(Internet, historical) The rule of netiquette stating that the text of a Usenet signature, or sig, should be less than 80 columns wide and no longer than four lines.


autocancel

A Usenet control message, generated automatically, that cancels a previously posted message.


smail

To receive this list by smail send self addressed stamped envelope

1996 May 24, Richard Eymann, “SEEKIG HAPPY MEAL TOY TRADERS WORLDWIDE”, in rec.collecting (Usenet)

1997 November 18, “SteveH1491”, “Trick Int'l smail address?”, in alt.music.cheap-trick (Usenet):

On a similar note just imagine if we could persuade companies that sending junk smail is hugely ineffective. All those people, using all that paper, printers, ink, postmen etc etc.

2000 August 5, “Robin” (username), “Re: Letter from india”, in uk.politics.misc and other newsgroups, Usenet

I would require a copy of the original image either by smail or email (scanned image requirement - 600 dpi min / jpg file) and the basic required size you would like the stamp/stamps to be.

2001 August 28, Tom & Rose-Marie Kerr, “Custom Rubber Stamp Needed”, in rec.crafts.rubberstamps (Usenet)

... so when I get promoted I can promote my connection :-) It has now been ordered, I just have to wait for the connection pack to be sent by smail.

2002 April 26, Old Git, “Shoom!”, in freeserve.chat (Usenet)

If anyone knows a smail order or internet vendor who carries them, please let me know ¶

2002 July 15, “Thor”, “Looking for Maisto On Track Diescast Trains”, in rec.models.railroad (Usenet)

You must give the seller access to your checking account, which is risky, or send funds via smail, which is slow.

2009 May 26, Robert, “anybody ordering online?”, in alt.smokers (Usenet)

(Internet, dated) Conventional postal mail; snail mail.


smail

en-verb

smail (third-person singular simple present smails, present participle smailing, simple past and past participle smailed)

smails (present singular third-person)
smailing (participle present)
smailed (participle past)
smailed (past)

You can retrieve the references and go to lib. to get the articles, order the articles to be smailed to you from NLM, or download them to your fax machine

1993 December 21, Patty Cravener, “medline”, in sci.med.nursing (Usenet)

I sent some key lime seeds to Davida last year by US Mail. IIRC, the cost of smailing few seeds was 4 or 5 bucks. --Dick.

2002 May 27, Dick Harper, “WREVEL: Lutefisk alert”, in misc.writing (Usenet)

He met her on IRC and she started emailing, then smailing, then calling on the phone

2002 November 26, Dan Logcher, “how do I get rid of this pest?”, in alt.food.sushi (Usenet)

I eventually stopped trying this bloated crud, and rang the Department to smail me the docs.[…] I gave up and got a friend to get me the documents in person from that office.

2004 July 30, Al Firan RumaiDin, “Re: ot! - ms office upgrades??”, in uk.business.agriculture (Usenet)

(Internet, dated) To send by postal mail.


Kibology

From Kibo + -logy, after prolific Usenet poster James "Kibo" Parry. A newsgroup called alt.religion.kibology was created in late 1991.

(Internet) An Internet-based parody religion led by James "Kibo" Parry and partly satirizing Scientology.


Kibological

en-adj

Kibological (comparative more Kibological, superlative most Kibological)

more Kibological (comparative)
most Kibological (superlative)

Tread softly on your beds of algae, Mr. Baleen Whale-Man, (if that is your real name) for if you step on even a single holy Krill, your soul will be sent to the eternal damnation of Kibological heck-like land!!

1989 November 6, Michael E. Lee, “seriously slack”, in alt.slack (Usenet)

2003, Beable van Polasm, “Kibological Konspiracy”, in alt.conspiracy.black.helicopters (Usenet):


screen motion capture

(computing) The digital recording, by software, of a moving image displayed upon a screen in order to allow manipulation and playback.


focusable

(graphical user interface) Able to receive the input focus.


C`num`

Inspired by the sharp symbol in musical notation. Perhaps also because this symbol resembles four connected + symbols; see etymology for C++.

VBers may find the syntax of C# a bit unpalatable.

2008, Andrew Troelsen, Visual Basic .NET and the .NET Platform: An Advanced Guide, page XVIII

(programming) An object-oriented programming language, resembling Java in some respects, developed by Microsoft Corporation as part of their .NET Framework initiative.


MCA

Microchannel Architecture
Microchannel Architecture

(computing) Microchannel Architecture, a computer bus standard (expansion bus) for connecting of internal components.


3D scanner

A device that analyzes a real-world object or environment to collect data on its shape and possibly its color.


pre-hook

(computing, programming) A section of code that runs immediately before a hook call.


TIL

TIL that scientists call the universe's average color "cosmic latte".

Kids played with yo-yos in Ancient Greece? TIL.

(Internet slang, Reddit slang) Initialism of today I learned...


wall jump

The player can gain altitude by chaining wall jumps which allows them to “climb walls” by wall jumping between two opposite facing surfaces.

2010, Scott Rogers, Level Up!: The Guide to Great Video Game Design, page 102

(video games) A move in which a character jumps into a wall or similar barrier and executes a further jump by pushing away from it in the opposite direction.


virtual address

en-noun

virtual address (plural virtual addresses)

(computing) The identification of a location in virtual storage that is mapped by the operating system into a location in real storage and thus appears to an application program to be an absolute address


zoom box

To move a window, just point anywhere on the title bar (except the close or zoom boxes) and drag.

1989, Gena Cobb, Judy Mynhier, Allan McGuffey, Word 4 companion

Click the zoom box to enlarge the document window to full-screen size; click it again to restore the window's previous size.

2002, Elaine Weinmann, Peter Lourekas, QuarkXPress 5 for Windows and Macintosh, page 7

(computing, graphical user interface) A clickable box that maximizes a window to fill the screen or (clicked a second time) restores the window to its previous size and position.


SLD

second-level domain
second-level domain#English

(Internet) Initialism of second-level domain.


polyfill

In the process i have come up with the following algorithm , and i wonder if it is a good one (i.e. fast), and also if anyone can give me tips on any other fast polyfill algoritm.

1992 February 3, Paal K Holmberg, “question on polyfill algorithm”, in comp.graphics (Usenet), message-ID <1992Feb3.120657.7173@alf.uib.no>

(computer graphics) An algorithm to fill a polygon with a particular color.


polyfill

Named with reference to the spackling paste Polyfilla.

A common way to group elements for collective use by JavaScript is to assign them the same (CSS) class and then to use getElementsByClassName(). Possibly with a polyfill for the "certain old browser".

2016 April 17, Stefan Weiss, “A few problems with looping thru a set of elements with the same "name" specifier.”, in comp.lang.javascript (Usenet), message-ID <nf03hk$bll$1@news.albasani.net>

(web development) A plugin that provides the functionality of newer browsers to older versions.

ポリフィル

plugin that provides functionality of newer browsers


polyfill

en-verb

polyfill (third-person singular simple present polyfills, present participle polyfilling, simple past and past participle polyfilled)

polyfills (present singular third-person)
polyfilling (participle present)
polyfilled (participle past)
polyfilled (past)

See the FAQ. Or polyfill String.prototype.trim() if necessary and just call .trim().

2017 January 17, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn, “form sending undefined”, in comp.lang.javascript (Usenet), message-ID <1645793.CQOukoFCf9@PointedEars.de>

(web development, transitive, intransitive) To create or apply a polyfill.


blogsite

With Drupal, anyone can create their own blogsites, portals, forums, websites, social networking sites, resource directories, etc.

2008, Andrew Haney, Build Websites with Drupal, page 148

The discussion boards and blogsites became battle sites for supporters and detractors of Chaudhry.

2009, Stewart Firth, Jon Fraenkel, The 2006 military takeover in Fiji: the coup to end all coups?, page 232

(Internet) A web site whose primary content is a blog.


autoencoder

(computing) a form of neural network designed to learn codings


NAPLPS

w:North American Presentation Level Protocol Syntax

(computing) Initialism of North American Presentation Level Protocol Syntax, a graphics language for use with videotex services.


wordwise

(computing) In terms of words (fixed groups of binary digits); one word of data at a time.


multisurface

(computer graphics) A collection of surfaces treated as a single object.


free-to-play

(video games) That can be played without payment.


free-to-play

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

Hit the Flash games, the demos, and the free-to-plays until you start to get your head wrapped around why people like them.

2013 March, Jason VandenBerghe, “Design of the Times”, in Game Developer Magazine, volume 20, number 03, San Francisco, Calif.: UBM LLC, →ISSN, page 081, column 2

She was often up late, playing her futile Free-to-Plays.

2017, Gregory Scott Katsoulis, “Influent™: $19.99”, in All Rights Reserved, Don Mills, Ont.: Harlequin TEEN, page 150


multikey

(computing) A multi-element key into a data structure.


hyperarc

(graph theory) A directed edge in a hypergraph.


keypath

The Microsoft Excel workbook Keypath.xls has a list of all the keypath files and registry values associated with Office XP features and components.

2001, Microsoft Office XP Resource Kit, page 196

(computing, Microsoft Windows) A path to a file or other component that is critical to the installation of a given program.


bloggerati

That’s why the bloggerati pounced gleefully last week on the news that one of their own had fallen in love with a commoner, er, commenter.

2009 April 5, Jan Hoffman, “Commoner Captures Princess, Blog Version”, in New York Times


unfollow

unfollow (third-person singular simple present unfollows, present participle unfollowing, simple past and past participle unfollowed)

unfollows (present singular third-person)
unfollowing (participle present)
unfollowed (participle past)
unfollowed (past)

Cantonese: unfol

→ German: entfolgen (calque)

With Twitter, it’s as easy to unfollow as it is to follow.

2009 April 22, Maureen Dowd, “To Tweet or Not to Tweet”, in New York Times

The calls came from Iranian intelligence as soon as the protests began. Agents threatened the family and friends of a DW editor, telling them to cut off contact with him and to unfollow him on Instagram. The journalist was said to be a "muharebbe" (Engl. warrior against God) – which is punishable by death in Iran.

2022 December 8, “Farsi editorial team: Mixed feelings on 60th anniversary”, in DW News, archived from the original on 2022-12-09, Press

(transitive, intransitive, social media) To cease to subscribe to (a feed of another user's activity).

取關

to cease to subscribe to (a feed of another user's activity)


rewriter

(computing) Part of a compiler that makes a second pass to fix the generated object code by implementing postconditions, patching in calls or pointers to point to the correct locations, etc.


dropfile

bulletin board system
bulletin board system

(computing, dated) A file used by a bulletin board system (BBS) to pass information about the BBS itself and the current user to an external door.


reflash

reflash (third-person singular simple present reflashes, present participle reflashing, simple past and past participle reflashed)

reflashes (present singular third-person)
reflashing (participle present)
reflashed (participle past)
reflashed (past)

(transitive, computing) To flash again; to overwrite the memory of an updatable component such as a BIOS chip.


riplock

(computing) A deliberate slowdown in the transfer rate when reading data from a DVD, so as to reduce the amount of noise from the drive.


Extensible Markup Language

(computer languages) A set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form.


XUL

(computing) Initialism of Xml User interface Language.


teleportitis

Teleportitis is gained by eating a leprechaun or quantum mechanic or nymph.

1990, Aaron Sher, “Teleportation”, in rec.games.hack (Usenet)

That ring stayed on his finger until resists became more an issue than damage output, and stayed off when I got teleportitis in the Slime pits and had to rely on teleport control.

2006, Rorschach, “YAVP: Argos the Merry Minotaur”, in rec.games.roguelike.misc (Usenet)

(video games, informal) In some roguelike games, an intrinsic ability that causes the player's character to teleport from place to place without warning.


BCL

(computing) Initialism of Base Class Library.


Common Type System

(computing) A set of data types that are common to all .NET languages and can be shared over CLI.


Common Intermediate Language

Common Language Infrastructure
Common Language Infrastructure

(computing) The lowest level human-readable language defined by the Common Language Infrastructure.


language-agnostic

(software) In a manner that is independent of the computer language being used.


Common Language Specification

(programming) A subset of the base Common Type System comprising the rules to which any CLS-compliant language targeting the Common Language Infrastructure should conform.


VES

Virtual Execution System
Virtual Execution System

(computing) Virtual Execution System for .NET


Common Language Runtime

(computing) A special runtime environment that serves as the underlying infrastructure of the Microsoft .NET Framework.


Common Language Infrastructure

(computing) The open specification that describes the executable code and runtime environment that form the core of the Microsoft .NET Framework.


software framework

en-noun

software framework (plural software frameworks)

(computing) an abstraction used in software development to provide generic functionality for application-specific software.


member function

member function (plural member functions)

(programming) A function that belongs to a class and can be called on instances of the object defined by that class.


CLS

Common Language Specification
Common Language Specification#English

(computing) Initialism of Common Language Specification (specification for .NET)


CLS

(Internet, social networking) Initialism of comment, like and share.


intermediate language

intermediate language (plural intermediate languages)

(computing) A language of an abstract machine designed as an aid in the analysis of computer programs.


ECIS

w:European Committee for Interoperable Systems

(computing, telecommunications) Initialism of European Committee for Interoperable Systems.


BAML

Binary Application Markup Language
w:Binary Application Markup Language

(computing) Initialism of Binary Application Markup Language.


MSIL

Intermediate Language
intermediate language#English

(programming) Abbreviation of Microsoft Intermediate Language.


P/Invoke

Platform Invocation Services
w:Platform Invocation Services

(programming) Abbreviation of Platform Invocation Services.


native code

native code (usually uncountable, plural native codes)

(computing) source code written in a code readable by the processor


managed code

Common Language Runtime
Common Language Runtime

(computing) Source code that will execute only under Microsoft's Common Language Runtime.


unmanaged code

(computing) source code that is compiled into native code for execution, rather than executing only under Microsoft's Common Language Runtime.


lookaside

lookaside (countable and uncountable, plural lookasides)

(computing) The technique of searching for something in a precalculated cache before attempting a more time-consuming search elsewhere.


biclique

(graph theory) A special kind of bipartite graph where every vertex of the first set is connected to every vertex of the second set.


one-time pad

One-time pads have been proven to be impossible to crack if used correctly.

(cryptography) A form of encryption where each bit or character from the plaintext is encrypted by a modular addition with a bit or character from a secret random key (or pad) of the same length as the plaintext.


overpull

en-verb

overpull (third-person singular simple present overpulls, present participle overpulling, simple past and past participle overpulled)

overpulls (present singular third-person)
overpulling (participle present)
overpulled (participle past)
overpulled (past)

/ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ˌpʊl/

/ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈpʊl/

A big mistake I see a lot of warlocks do is overpulling with whatever demon they're using. VW's good for two (maybe three), but the succubus is only good for one at a time. But young warlocks don't know this, so they send their demon into a pack of mobs, start up with their DOT's and suddenly find themselves in the middle of melee because the demon can't hold aggro.

2008, Jobbles, “Dead server economy?”, in alt.games.warcraft (Usenet)

(video games) To lure away more monsters than one can handle in combat.


RUOK

(Internet, Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of are you OK.


threadjacker

(Internet) One who takes over a discussion thread with a subject unrelated to the original posting.


MVVM

(computing, programming) Initialism of model–view–viewmodel.


computational model

en-noun

computational model (plural computational models)


system architecture

system architecture (countable and uncountable, plural system architectures)

(software, system theory) The conceptual model that defines the behavior, structure, and more views of a system.


software architecture

(software) The set of structures needed to reason about a given software system.


view model

enterprise architecture
enterprise architecture

software architecture
software architecture

(software engineering) A framework that defines a coherent set of views to be used in the construction of an enterprise architecture, software architecture, or system architecture.

View Models and headless Fragments provide two such mechanisms that ensure data is persisted across configuration changes, while also ensuring that your Activity or Fragment UI can be updated without risk of memory leaks.

2018, Reto Meier, Ian Lake, Professional Android, John Wiley & Sons, page 248

Once the view model has data requested by the user's event, it notifies and updates the view.

2022, Damodar Lohani, Taking Flutter to the Web […], Packt Publishing Ltd, page 79

architectural pattern
architectural pattern

(programming) An abstraction of a view, especially in the context of the MVVM architectural pattern.


computer simulation

computer simulation (plural computer simulations)

software engineering
software engineering


computer model

(software engineering) a computer program, or network of computers, that attempts to simulate an abstract model of a particular system.


GDI+

(computing, Microsoft Windows) A newer and improved version of GDI written in C++.


WinForms

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(computing, graphical user interface) Abbreviation of Windows Forms.


LOB

(databases) Abbreviation of large object.


hackathon

If these are opinions I'm sure that it happens to have something to do with the immense amounts of caffeine and sugar that I've ingested over the course of his 50hr hackathon.

1985 January 20, Andy Beals, “Re: net.men.only?”, in net.flame (Usenet), retrieved 2016-12-16, message-ID <3466@mit-eddie.UUCP>

Just after the Hack-A-Thon. A little tired, but it's still early, just after 3 a.m. I log onto the Vax and find that two of the people from the Hack-A-Thon are already on. I VMSphone RJLEWIS, a hacker and the president of our computer club, to ask him why he left the 'thon early. He answers after quite a few rings - no surprise, he was probably doing some hacking. He answers, "This isn't Crash." Hmm...probably one of his roommates. Another person joins the conversation - RLCOLLINS, one of his roommates - saying "This is Crash." Ok, I'm confused. "Why?," I ask. RJLEWIS responds that this is a person named Debbie and it's her first time on the computer.

1990 November 30, P'relan, “A Callahan's Romance”, in alt.callahans (Usenet), retrieved 2016-12-16, message-ID <3009.27556011@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>

I bet you most programmers started out "hacking." You think you're alone in that, but I'm sure you can find hundreds of people in this newsgroup with "48-hour hack-a-thon" or similar kinds of stories. They may have been working with punched cards or with all-text displays, but hacking is hacking. That's why some of the dreaded professional programmers will see your fixation with obscure tricks as nothing more than a phase they've been through themselves.

1992 February 29, David M. Baggett, “Re: 'Demo crews'”, in comp.sys.atari.st (Usenet), retrieved 2016-12-16, message-ID <1992Feb29.043440.25994@wam.umd.edu>

UNITED ARTISTS, THE ONION, AND THE VIRTUAL GAMING CENTER PERSENT: THE 24 HOUR HACKATHON! n promotion of the new moive "HACKERS" (the fast-paced cyberpunk thriller opens in theaters September 15th), we are giving away a some great prizes! Be the first person to "hack" into our special web site on the internet and win a BRAND NEW COMPUTER SYSTEM! Fifty runners-up will receive special HACKERS gift packs.

1995 September 1, James Dicke, “HACKERS: Win a new computer!”, in milw.general (Usenet), retrieved 2016-12-16, message-ID <4282s8$15l@earth.alpha.net>

Startup Bus is arguably the looniest of the many hackathons that take place every weekend across the country. A hackathon is a marathon computer-programming competition that, among computer programmers, is slightly less popular than video games, Ultimate Frisbee, or Game of Thrones. It lasts 24 hours to five days, and usually there is a lot of Red Bull and very little sleep.

2015 July 8, Meredith Broussard, “The Dirty Secret About Hackathons”, in The Atlantic

(informal) An event where programmers and others meet for collaborative software development.


application programming interface

application programming interface (plural application programming interfaces)

application programming interfaces (plural)

(computing, programming) A set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications, which makes it possible for software components to interact with one another, leading to the ability to share data over a network.

интерфе́йс программи́рования приложе́ний

interfaz de programación de aplicaciones


watchpoint

From watch + point, on the model of breakpoint.

AdaRAID supports multiple CPUs running concurrently, Ada data types, features include break points, watchpoints, timing, tracing, stepping, walkbacks, and histories of last n executions.

(programming) A debugging mechanism whereby execution is suspended every time a specified memory location is modified; or, any of various similar such mechanisms.


sideload

en-verb

sideload (third-person singular simple present sideloads, present participle sideloading, simple past and past participle sideloaded)

sideloads (present singular third-person)
sideloading (participle present)
sideloaded (participle past)
sideloaded (past)

From side + load, modelled on upload and download.

I'm going to sideload my computer's address book onto my mobile phone.

When you sideload content onto your nook, you'll find the items in My Documents.

(transitive, computing) To transfer data between two local devices, rather than to or from a remote device.

(transitive, computing) To install an app on a mobile device by using unofficial channels, such as avoiding the use of an app store by obtaining it directly from the developer or downloading from a software repository.


sequence breaking

(video games, speedrunning) The performing of actions or obtaining of items out of the linear order intended by the game's designers, either as a challenge or in order to skip certain sections of the game.


bookware

This was especially true of BASIC program anthologies, a particularly important area of bookware for TI owners.

1984, Michael Nicita, Ronald Petrusha, The reader's guide to microcomputer books

The problem with bookware is that it quickly gets out of date.

1995, Craig Hunt, Networking personal computers with TCP/IP

The suite of bookware applications on the companion CD-ROM for this book illustrates a group of applications that use a common collection of DLLs.

1996, Steve Rimmer, Windows and OS/2 bitmapped graphics

(computing) Software that is published in, or distributed with, a book.


redist

There are a handful of allowed ways to update system files (service packs, hotfixes, MS update, redists like MDAC) and people building install packages just need to figure out which redist or SP gets the files updated to the level they think they need.

2006, Phil Wilson, “Windows File Protection Problem”, in microsoft.public.platformsdk.msi (Usenet)

(computing, informal) A redistributable software component.


open/closed principle

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

open-closed principle
open-closed principle#English

(programming, object-oriented programming) Alternative spelling of open-closed principle


storage hypervisor

en-noun

storage hypervisor (plural storage hypervisors)

(computing) A hardware-independent supervisory software program that operates as a transparent virtual layer across consolidated disk pools providing centrally managed storage control and supplementary functionality to improve availability, speed, and utilization.


subquest

If each of five paths through the game has an entirely independent set of locations, monsters, spells, characters, subquests, and game objectives, the designer is essentially faced with creating five wholly different games.

2001, Neal Hallford, Jana Hallford, Swords and circuitry: a designer's guide to computer role playing games, page 195

This is an example of a subquest that must be completed before the main one can be finished. Or the subquest could be finding a key that unlocks the room holding the princess since the room has been magically sealed against all entry without the key.

2009, Jim Perry, RPG programming using XNA game studio 3.0, page 232

The quest is broken down into a number of episodes that progress in a linear sequence, each with its own subquest and major challenge at the end.

2010, Ernest Adams, Fundamentals of game design, page 458

(video games) A secondary quest that forms part of a larger quest.


OCP

Open Closed Principle
open/closed principle#English

(computer science, programming) Initialism of Open Closed Principle.


wikitext

It is also possible to extend the wikitext with explicit semantic information encoded with the use of RDF[…]

2011, Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence III, page 106

(Internet) A lightweight markup language used to format and structure pages in wikis.

This latter format, called wikitext, is written by means of a simplified markup language and its style and syntax vary, depending on the different implementations.

2010, Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra, Quality and Communicability for Interactive Hypermedia Systems

(Internet) Content that has been marked up with such a language.


Duff's device

(computing, programming) A particular optimized implementation of a serial copy that uses an unusual C-language construct for loop unwinding.


DPMI

You will only have to be concerned with DPMI, selectors, and such, if you use Borland C++ in DOS.

1995, Lary L. Myers, Keith Weiskamp, Amazing 3-D games adventure set, page 235

DOS Protected Mode Interface
w:DOS Protected Mode Interface

(computing) Initialism of DOS Protected Mode Interface.


blawg

Blend of blog + law. Coined by American lawyer and podcaster Denise Howell.

coined

Keeping a blawg also can be helpful when you update your resume and compose cover letters[…]

2004, American Bar Association, Student lawyer: Volume 33

If there is a blawg you would like to see added, please feel free to suggest that we add it to the list.

2006, Carole A. Levitt, Mark E. Rosch, The lawyer's guide to fact finding on the Internet, page 738

The vowel of blog can mutate, as when law blogs are called blawgs or requests via blog posts are called blegs (combining blog and beg).]

[2010 November 11, Ben Zimmer, “Web”, in The New York Times Magazine

(Internet) A weblog dealing with topics related to the law.


blawg

en-verb

blawg (third-person singular simple present blawgs, present participle blawging, simple past and past participle blawged)

blawgs (present singular third-person)
blawging (participle present)
blawged (participle past)
blawged (past)

Finally, do legal professionals owe a duty to society in general when blawging?

2007, Anna P. Hemingway, “The ethical obligations of lawyers, law students and law professors telling stories on web logs”, in The Law Teacher, volume 41, number 3, page 294

When attorneys began blawging, their discourse was not so clearly public, despite the fact that blawgs are far more accessible to many more people than any advertisement.

2009, Judy M. Cornett, "The Ethics of Blawging: A Genre Analysis", Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, Volume 41, Issue 1, Fall 2009, page 233

For example, I do this regularly in Internet Law through requiring my students to blawg.

2013, David S. Levine, “What Can We Do on Monday to Improve Our Teaching?”, in Chapman Law Review, volume 17, number 1, page 32

(Internet) To write about legal topics on a blog.


hashbang

(computing) A shebang (#! character sequence).


interquery

interquery parallelism

(databases) Between more than one query.


intraquery

intraquery parallelism


PCRE

regular expression
regular expression#English

(regular expressions) Initialism of Perl-compatible regular expressions.


Unixism

Another common Unixism that causes problems on Windows is the use of the select() function.

2000, Mark J. Hammond, Andy Robinson, Python programming on Win32, page 35

Note the term fork/exec is a Unixism that describes the way many applications first fork a child process and then use the exec system command to start another process.

2006, Joshua B. Smith, Practical OCaml, page 275

(computing, informal) An idiom or behaviour that is characteristic of the Unix operating system.


blognoscenti

The blognoscenti were quick to note after the Uniform Project site started making the rounds that earlier projects have played with the one-dress idea.

2009 July 12, Rob Walker, “This Year’s Model”, in New York Times

(informal, neologism) Intelligent, discerning bloggers.


autoplay

If you have not enabled autoplay, click on the CD icon that appears on your desktop, then click on 'CAM' to open the application.

2001, E. Ernst, The desktop guide to complementary and alternative medicine, page 445

You can even combine the features and make a looping autoplay DVD for a kiosk or self-running demo.

2004, Tony Bove, Cheryl Rhodes, iLife '04 all-in-one desk reference for dummies, page 346

Adding controls, looping, and autoplay to an HTML5 video embed is simple.

2011, Steve Fulton, Jeff Fulton, HTML5 Canvas, page 265

(computing) Any software feature that plays (a video, a compact disc, etc.) automatically.


autoplay

autoplay (third-person singular simple present autoplays, present participle autoplaying, simple past and past participle autoplayed)

autoplays (present singular third-person)
autoplaying (participle present)
autoplayed (participle past)
autoplayed (past)

Users may leave a Web site in frustration if a video autoplays when they visit.


blogdom

All that had to happen was for the forces of IP blogdom to march to Washington and demand IP reform. Why wasn't it happening? It wasn't happening because the blogosphere is only a small part of the story.

2007, Bruce Abramson, The secret circuit, page 278

[…]Ms. Wilder-Taylor put up a post on her blog, Babyonbored, that has reverberated throughout mommy blogdom[…]

2009 August 16, Jan Hoffman, “A Heroine of Cocktail Moms Sobers Up”, in New York Times


subdatabase

(databases) A database making up part of a larger database.

sous-base de données

A database that is part of a larger database


characterwise

(computing) In terms of text characters.


characterwise

Subfields necessitate characterwise processing, because only that field is given an entry in the directory of a record which specifies the tag, the length and the starting character position of the field concerned[…]

1977, E. Edelhoff, Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, On-line library and network systems: symposium


minisite

Create, a minisite for Web creativity tools on Disney.com, has Digital Painter at its core, with features that Photoshop users used to dream about: unlimited undo and redo, unlimited layers that can be moved after they’re placed, and no limits to the number of objects that can be stamped on the screen.

2009 September 3, Warren Buckleitner, “A Full Palette of Tools for Little Artists at Disney.com”, in New York Times


despawn

despawn (third-person singular simple present despawns, present participle despawning, simple past and past participle despawned)

despawns (present singular third-person)
despawning (participle present)
despawned (participle past)
despawned (past)

A mob will immediately despawn if ever there is no player within 128 blocks of it.

The helicopter despawned shortly after take-off, leaving the player in an unexpected free fall.

The game despawns the enemies after you kill them 15 times or so.

(video games, ergative, of an entity in a game world) To be instantaneously destroyed or removed.


Data Carrier Equipment

en-noun

Data Carrier Equipment (plural Data Carrier Equipments)

Data Circuit-Terminating Equipment
Data Circuit-Terminating Equipment

(computer hardware) Synonym of Data Circuit-Terminating Equipment