(computing) Initialism of disk-to-tape: a method of data backup where information is copied from a disk (usually the hard disk of a computer) to a magnetic tape.


cut-set

(graph theory) The set of edges that have one endpoint in each subset of the partition.


s-t cut

(graph theory) A cut that requires the source and the sink to be in different subsets, and its cut-set only consisting of edges going from the source's side to the sink's side.


flow network

(graph theory) A directed graph where each edge has a capacity and each edge receives a flow.


minimum cut

(graph theory) A cut that is minimal in some metric.


maximum cut

(graph theory) A cut whose size is at least the size of any other cut; a partition of the graph's vertices into two complementary sets S and T, such that the number of edges between S and T is as large as possible.


Nagling

Applications that send small amounts of data infrequently also benefit from disabling Nagling as the network delay is unnecessary in these cases.

2004, Anthony Jones, Jim Ohlund, Lance Olson, Network Programming for the Microsoft .NET Framework, page 322

(Internet) The use of Nagle's algorithm.


homomorphic encryption

en-noun

homomorphic encryption (usually uncountable, plural homomorphic encryptions)

In 2010, Nigel P. Smart and Frederik Vercauteren presented a fully homomorphic encryption scheme with smaller key and ciphertext sizes.

2014, Xun Yi, Russell Paulet, Elisa Bertino, Homomorphic Encryption and Applications, Springer, page 50

As mentioned before, homomorphic encryption is adopted in our auction design. Homomorphic encryption is used when there is a requirement to perform certain operations while the inputs are not disclosed.

2020, Haya Shajaiah, Ahmed Abdelhadi, Charles Clancy, Performance and Security for the Internet of Things […], McGraw Hill, page 101

(cryptography) A form of encryption that permits users to perform computations on its encrypted data without first decrypting it.


micropatronage

(Internet) An informal means of funding a project by asking a large number of people to make small individual donations.


micropatron

(Internet) A funder in the system of micropatronage.


POAP

POAPs have emerged as a new way of keeping an immutable record of your life experiences, including virtual and in-person events.

2022 February 22, Mason Marcobello, “POAPs: What Is a Proof of Attendance Protocol?”, in Coindesk

(cryptocurrencies) Acronym of proof of attendance protocol.


DMer

You might soft-launch a new partner in an Instagram Story, or in the background in the fourth pic in a carousel, but a cute couple shot front and center on the main feed informs your most dedicated DMers that the club is closed to new members until further notice.

2021 January 14, Alex Zaragoza, “Bow Down to Lori Harvey, the Queen of Dating”, in Vice

(informal, computing) A person who sends a direct message (DM).


undownload

en-verb

undownload (third-person singular simple present undownloads, present participle undownloading, simple past and past participle undownloaded)

undownloads (present singular third-person)
undownloading (participle present)
undownloaded (participle past)
undownloaded (past)

(computing, transitive, informal) To remove (something previously downloaded) from the device to which it was downloaded.


webcrafter

[…] include an e-mail hyperlink on your home page, such as "Please e-mail any questions or comments to webcrafter@widget.com"

1999, Gene Weisskopf, Microsoft FrontPage 2000: No Experience Required, page 364

In 1997, a Pagan Webcrafters' Association was developed […]

2013, Lorne L. Dawson, Douglas E. Cowan, Religion Online: Finding Faith on the Internet, page 28

[…] the webcrafter has a huge collection of potential tools that can be used in creating a page.

2018, Steven Heller, Veronique Vienne, Citizen Designer

(Internet, rare, dated) A person who designs and creates websites; a web designer.


homelab

Building a homelab can be a fun way to entertain yourself while learning new concepts and experimenting with new technologies. Thanks to the popularity of single-board computers (SBCs), led by the Raspberry Pi, it is easier than ever to build a multi-computer lab right from the comfort of your home.

2020 May 11, Julian Horsey, “Raspberry Pi homelab and private cloud project”, in Geeky Gadgets

In the case of this device, with its specifications, deploying it on a basic homelab environment where there isn’t a ton of traffic going on, the M90n IoT performs very well.

2022 January 18, Conner Crull, “Budget pfSense Router for Homelab”, in StorageReview

A Cybersecurity Homelab is a small-scale environment meant to simulate different components of a business network.

2022 May 26, “Why Building a Cybersecurity Homelab will Help Your Career Big Time?”, in Analytics Insight

(computing) A server set up in one's home for the purpose of testing various configurations of hardware, operating systems, etc.


low-code

First used in a report by Forrester published on June 9, 2014 (see quotation).

Some firms are turning to new, "low-code" application platforms that accelerate app delivery by dramatically reducing the amount of hand-coding required.

2014 June 9, Clay Richardson, John Rymer, “New Development Platforms Emerge For Customer-Facing Applications”, in Forrester

Whereas no-code software aims at creating software applications entirely without writing any code in a programming language, low-code development takes a slightly relaxed perspective and is directed towards simplifying software development with less coding effort.

2021, Business Modeling and Software Design, page 345

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(computing) (of a development environment) Primarily involving a graphical user interface rather than a text-based one.

Low-code applications can hence accumulate high complexity, bugs and other forms technical debt just as badly or even worse than traditional applications. However, the languages created for low-code platforms commonly lack features that would assist in their understanding and maintenance, such as the ability or organize them into files and modules, or even to add detailed comments attached to individual code elements.

2021, Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation, page 205

(computing) (of an application) Programmed using a low-code development environment.


low-code

However, the distinction between no-code and low-code is not always evident, and this extends to the low-code and no-code platforms themselves. Many technology product analysts regard no-code to be a subset of the low-code market because even the most powerful platforms need some amount of coding throughout the application development and deployment process.

2022 September 21, Giulia Interesse, “The Low-Code/No-Code Industry in China: Opportunities for Foreign Investors”, in China Briefing

(computing) The practice of developing applications via a low-code development environment.


women ☕

In reference to the 2017 YouTube video "Infomercial: The Pill" [0:13], in which two animated characters say "hmpf, women", then loudly sip their coffee. The phrase women ☕ became an Internet meme around early 2022 on TikTok and Instagram. The term later came to be used as a noun, leading to the back-formation woman ☕.

At the end of the day, "Women ☕" is just a snarkier, more conspicuous way of saying "Woman Moment," another meme that has been used for the same purposes.]

[2022 August 10, Philipp Kachalin, “What Does Women ☕ Mean? Coffee Emoji Meme Explained”, in KnowYourMeme

men be like 'women ☕' and then forget about their vaginal birth. real clownery.

2022 September 22, @bfulaura, X (Twitter), archived from the original on 2023-03-02

Thank you DeMC for giving us a true "Women☕" moment.

2022 September 25, @Harshalreacts, X (Twitter), archived from the original on 2023-03-02

Real men don't say "Women ☕"

2022 September 30, @dreeaamie, X (Twitter)

(Internet slang, derogatory, sometimes offensive) Expressing disapproval of the actions of a woman, especially one associated with stereotypically feminine traits.


hardlink

(computing) Alternative form of hard link


softlink

(computing) Alternative form of soft link


McCabe's complexity

The metric was developed by Thomas J. McCabe, Sr. in 1976.

software engineering
software engineering

cyclomatic complexity
cyclomatic complexity#English

(software engineering) Synonym of cyclomatic complexity


no-code

Some of Databricks biggest investors, including Google, Amazon and Salesforce, have been pushing into the low-code/no-code space in recent years, technology which enables non-coders to develop enterprise apps across business functions, also referred to as the rise of the "citizen developer."

2021 October 6, Eric Rosenbaum, “$38 billion software start-up Databricks makes acquisition to leave code behind”, in CNBC

Just as clickable icons have replaced obscure programming commands on home computers, new no-code platforms replace programming languages with simple and familiar web interfaces.

2022 March 15, Craig S. Smith, “'No-Code' Brings the Power of A.I. to the Masses”, in The New York Times

(computing) (of a development environment) Involving a graphical user interface rather than a text-based one.

A no-code platform creates opportunities that expand what a traditional API program can deliver, and a no-code program that draws from a strong API program can make more digital assets available for innovation.

2020 September 8, Amit Zavery, “The Future Of Business Innovation Is Not Based On Coding Alone”, in Forbes

(computing) (of an application) Programmed using a no-code development environment.


no-code

No-code is exactly what it sounds like: powerful websites or apps built without writing any code.

2022 September 14, Dave Lee, “The tools to be a good citizen of the internet”, in Financial Times

(computing) The practice of developing applications via a no-code development environment.


damage boost

(video games) The situation where the player character deliberately takes damage in order to use the resulting brief period of invulnerability to pass an upcoming hazard.


Golden Shield

China's Golden Shield has long been a byword for internet censorship.

2010 January 13, Tim Stevens, “China's cyberwar goes beyond Google”, in The Guardian

Rather than try to shut down the source, the Golden Shield attempts to prevent these sites from being accessible in China.

2017, Jason R. Fritz, “Information Operations”, in China’s Cyber Warfare: The Evolution of Strategic Doctrine, Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, page 81

In the late 1990s, Fang worked on developing the “Golden Shield” – transformative software that enabled the government to inspect any data being received or sent, and to block destination IP addresses and domain names.

2018 June 29, Elizabeth C Economy, “The great firewall of China: Xi Jinping’s internet shutdown”, in The Guardian

Great Firewall of China
Great Firewall of China#English


front page of the Internet

the front page of the Internet (canonical)

Coined in 2005 by Paul Graham, American computer scientist and lecturer, in reference to a brainstormed idea for what would become Reddit.

(Internet) Reddit (an American social news aggregation, content rating, and discussion website).


autopost

autopost (third-person singular simple present autoposts, present participle autoposting, simple past and past participle autoposted)

autoposts (present singular third-person)
autoposting (participle present)
autoposted (participle past)
autoposted (past)

FarmVille became notorious, especially in its early days, for its expansionist zeal: the way it used the architecture of Facebook to make itself go viral, autoposting constant status updates on its users’ walls.

2012 April 4, Sam Anderson, “Just One More Game ...”, in The New York Times Magazine

(transitive, Internet) To post automatically.


MVW

(programming) Initialism of model-view-whatever.


subredditor

Blend of subreddit + Redditor or from subreddit + -or.

In 2012, after a series of journalistic outlets began reporting on the forum, Reddit said they would not ban the /creepshot subredditor other similar forums, citing their long-held rule of only stepping in to moderate if content is[…]

2017 August 24, Amber Davisson, Paul Booth, Controversies in Digital Ethics, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, page 48

Rest of the series was actually pretty light, but I still feel like I get more enjoyment out of watching two a day max and taking some time in-between to digest” (Poster 4), another subredditor writes, “Just finished ep3.

2019 January 11, Matt Hills, Michele Hilmes, Roberta Pearson, Transatlantic Television Drama: Industries, Programs, and Fans, Oxford University Press, USA, page 229

If Wick used Bitcoin, writes one sensible subredditor, “at least he wouldn't have to bury [gold coins] in the floor of his house under fresh concrete.” 3 As more than one viewer has observed, Wick isn't a gold bug—the point of the coins[…]

2022 May 3, Caitlin G. Watt, Stephen Watt, The Worlds of John Wick: The Year's Work at the Continental Hotel, Indiana University Press

(Internet) A frequenter of a subreddit, often of a specified one.


MEVN

The IOM-Manager was implemented with the MEVN (MongoDB, Express.js, Vue.js and Node.js) technology stack [4]. Our protocol entry catalog has two goals: to facilitate data input during surgery and to increase the usefulness of the[…]

2020 July 24, J. Mantas, A. Hasman, M.S. Househ, The Importance of Health Informatics in Public Health during a Pandemic, IOS Press, page 319

... Express.js, Angular JS and Node.js MERN stack: MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, and Node.js MEVN stack: MongoDB, Express.js, VUE.js, and Node.js Meteor.js: a full-stack framework based on Node.js and supports Angular.js and React.js[…]

2022 April 21, MANU SHARMA, Full Stack Development with MongoDB: Covers Backend, Frontend, APIs, and Mobile App Development using PHP, NodeJS, ExpressJS, Python and React Native, BPB Publications, page 23

(web development) Acronym of MongoDB, Express.js, Vue.js, Node.js; a common web application technology stack.


InnerSource

From inner + source; coined by Irish-American author and publisher Tim O'Reilly in 2000.

coined

(programming) The use of open source software development best practices and the establishment of an open source-like culture within organizations, for the development of software that is proprietary or not open source.


COSS

(software, uncommon) Initialism of commercial open-source software.


source-available

MongoDB is licensed as a source-available, distributed, document database and a community edition can be freely downloaded for multiple operating systems. It is well-suited to large-scale, database-driven application development.

2022, Catherine M. Ricardo, Susan Urban, Karen Davis, chapter 14, in Databases Illuminated, 4th edition, Jones & Bartlett Learning, page 546

The BSL is a ‘Source Available’ license that freely allows using the code for development and other non-production work such as testing. Production use of the software requires a commercial license from Lightbend.

2022 September 8, Paul Kunert, quoting Jonas Bonér, “Open source biz sick of FOSS community exploitation overhauls software rights”, in The Register

(software) Whose source code can be viewed, and in some cases modified, but which itself is not open-source.


sourceware

Coordinate term: freedomware

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

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

Because McVoy was trying to avoid recourse to the “customer solution” of NT, that left the programmers' solution: free software, or “sourceware,” as he termed it.

2009, Glyn Moody, Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution, Hachette UK

And we said, “We're all going to agree on one name, and we're all going to start using it.” We voted on “sourceware” versus “open source,” and “open source” won. We had the press conference at five, and the rest is history.]

[2009, Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene, quoting Tim O'Reilly, Beautiful Teams: Inspiring and Cautionary Tales from Veteran Team Leaders, O'Reilly Media, page 4

(software, dated) A precursor of open source software.


OLT

optical line termination
w:optical line termination

(networking) Initialism of optical line termination.


PON

en-noun

PON (countable and uncountable, plural PONs)

passive optical network
w:passive optical network

(networking) Initialism of passive optical network, technology and standards for fiber-optic broadband access.


EPON

(networking) Initialism of ethernet passive optical network.


APON

(networking) Initialism of ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) passive optical network.


GPON

gigabit-capable passive optical network
w:GPON

(networking) Initialism of gigabit-capable passive optical network, standardized as ITU-T G.984.


BPON

(networking) Initialism of broadband passive optical network, or ITU-T G.983.


G-PON

G.984 G-PON improves its robustness by transmitting some fields twice and some messages thrice; G.987 XG-PON does not.

2012, Dave Hood, Gigabit-capable Passive Optical Networks, John Wiley & Sons, page 140


GEPON

(networking) Initialism of gigabit ethernet passive optical network.


Reddit

The website was founded on June 23, 2005, by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian, and the name is a play on words of read it (with read in the past tense).

(Internet) An American social news aggregation, content rating, and discussion website.


Reddit

en-verb

Reddit (third-person singular simple present Reddits, present participle Redditing, simple past and past participle Reddited)

Reddits (present singular third-person)
Redditing (participle present)
Reddited (participle past)
Reddited (past)

It will be carried forward in other blogs, copied, Digged, Reddited, Stumbledupon and Twitted in no time. Harmful rumors spread and cause people to panic (Hashimoto, Kuboyama, Shirota, & Ieee, 2011) To prove[…]

2017 June 20, Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A., Mehdi, Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition, IGI Global, page 6997

... that Batcache is meant primarily as a defense against traffic spikes like those that happen when a website is “slashdotted,” “techcrunched,” “reddited,” or linked to by any of the other websites large enough to warrant its own verb.

2019 December 11, Brian Messenlehner, Jason Coleman, Building Web Apps with WordPress: WordPress as an Application Framework, O'Reilly Media, page 404

Monitoring for heavy spikes in mentions is one way to tell when you're about to be Reddited or Kutchered, giving you time to move popular content into frontended caches, bring up cloud resources, or deploy additional CDN capacity.

2010 June 21, John Allspaw, Jesse Robbins, Web Operations: Keeping the Data On Time, "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", page 184

(Internet slang, intransitive) To be mentioned on the website Reddit.


RRoD

Alternative form: RROD

If you no longer have a warranty on your Xbox, and you've gotten the dreaded Red Ring of Death ... there's still hope. The RRoD is displayed by the 360's "Ring of Light" when there's a general hardware failure.

2008, Jake "Biggs" Turner, “Fix the Red Ring of Death! (without towels!)”, in The Best of Instructables, volume 1, Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media, page 247

After a great deal of pressure, Microsoft tacitly recognized the RRoD epidemic, and announced extended warranty support that would cost the company more than one-billion dollars.

2011 October 25, Gerry Block, “Xbox 360 RRoD Failures Finally Explained”, in IGN

The Xbox One fiasco is not the first time that Microsoft has tried to ride out a wave of unpopularity by simply pretending the problem doesn’t exist. But with the Red Ring of Death (RROD) it succeeded.

2013 June 21, Roger Hargreaves, “The 10 greatest disasters in video games history – from Xbone to E.T.”, in Metro

red ring of death
red ring of death#English

(video games) Initialism of red ring of death.


yellow light of death

en-noun

yellow light of death (plural yellow lights of death)

(video games) A general hardware failure in the PlayStation 3 video game console and related to an issue on the motherboard, the power supply, commonly caused by a degraded capacitor.


white screen of death

white screen of death (plural white screens of death)

(computing, informal) An error or issue occurring in Apple operating systems and other technologies that causes the computer or device to cease working and display only a white screen.


fatal system error

fatal system error (plural fatal system errors)

(computing) An error that occurs when an operating system halts, because it has reached a condition where it can no longer operate safely.


DWeb

Coordinate term: Web3

By dint of having principles at all, DWeb became a smaller tent than Web3.

2022 October 4, Kaitlyn Tiffany, “The Battle for the Soul of the Web”, in The Atlantic

(Internet) Abbreviation of Decentralized Web.


stable marriage problem

stable marriage problem (plural stable marriage problems)

(mathematics, economics, computer science) The problem of finding a stable matching between two equal-sized sets of elements, given an ordering of preferences for each element.


buffer overrun

Except in a few trivial cases, it generally isn't possible to prove that a buffer overrun isn't exploitable.

2002, David LeBlanc, Michael Howard, Writing Secure Code, Pearson Education, page 133

(computer security) Synonym of buffer overflow


rooted tree

(graph theory) A tree in which one vertex has been designated as the root.


buffer underrun

buffer underrun (plural buffer underruns)

One problem with on-the-fly copying is that you risk buffer underrun, which occurs when the CD or DVD drive doing the burning doesn't receive a continuous stream of data.

2004, Wally Wang, The Book of Nero 6 Ultra Edition: CD and DVD Burning Made Easy, No Starch Press, page 18

(computing) A state occurring when a buffer used to communicate between two devices or processes is fed with data at a lower speed than the data is being read from it.


rantsona

(Internet slang) A persona used on a YouTube commentary video that features rants or discussions on controversial topics.


stack smashing

Popularized by an early description of the technique titled Smashing The Stack For Fun And Profit (1996).

A stack smashing attack fills up the stack area and modifies the return address to an attacker's desired location.

2008 December 17, Asoke K. Talukder, Manish Chaitanya, Architecting Secure Software Systems, CRC Press, page 130

(computer security) The exploitation of a buffer overflow affecting the stack.


pedestal server

pedestal server (plural pedestal servers)

(computer hardware) A type of computer rack consisting of a box-like frame or a columnar support, and may include wheels for transportation.


deskside server

deskside server (plural deskside servers)

(networking, computer hardware) A type of computer server intended to be placed alongside a desk, contrasted with the shelf model.


server computer

server computer (plural server computers)

(computing, networking) Synonym of server


HDFS

(programming) Initialism of Hadoop Distributed File System.


karma whore

First used around 2000 on the social news website Slashdot.

But the site's system is volatile, and not all original content is well-received. Karma whores know this in their core. Karma whores learn to be clinical and bot-like. Karma whores make nothing themselves and often pull their content from users on other sites without crediting.

2019 May 31, Brian Burlage, “Confessions of a Reddit 'Karma Whore'”, in Vice

People who aim to accrue karma on reddit are referred to as, even by themselves, as karma-whores.

2020, John R Gallagher, Update Culture and the Afterlife of Digital Writing, page 54

(Internet slang, Slashdot, Reddit) Someone excessively dedicated to gaining karma (“a score assigned to a user or post on a discussion forum, indicating popularity or perceived value”), often by disagreeable methods such as reposting content or creating fake stories.


karma whore

en-verb

karma whore (third-person singular simple present karma whores, present participle karma whoring, simple past and past participle karma whored)

karma whores (present singular third-person)
karma whoring (participle present)
karma whored (participle past)
karma whored (past)

Though this might seem to be a performance-contigent reward, there are well-known tricks for posting comments that wil be well-received, even though they contribute little to the conversation, such as resposting popular comments from previous conversations or reciting inside jokes. Such activities earned their own colloquial name "karma whoring."

2012, Robert E. Kraut, Paul Resnick, Sara Kiesler, Building Successful Online Communities, page 57

But claims of photoshopping and "karma whoring" didn't unmask a troll — instead, it spurred "pussyrammer" to post photographic proof that she was who she claimed to be.

2012 December 27, Neetzan Zimmerman, “Sister of Sandy Hook Shooting Victim Has Hard Time Convincing Reddit of Identity Because Her Username is 'Pussyrammer'”, in Gawker, archived from the original on 2022-10-13

A rather simple case of Karmawhoring is embodied in posts providing narrative teasers of possible stories. The respective users assure they would be willing to tell more, if only other users would upvote the post in advance.

2014, Annika Richterich, “Karma, precious Karma: 'Karmawhoring' on Reddit and the Front Page's Econometrisation”, in Journal of Peer Production

Here's the whole story, which scores a one on the Reddit karma-whoring scale. That means I totally believe it because I have also accidentally almost burned down everything in my immediate vicinity while being distracted by the TV or the telphone.

2015 January 6, Mark Shrayber, “Man Sets House on Fire While Trying to Boil His Dildos Clean”, in Jezebel

(Internet slang, Slashdot, Reddit) To act as a karma whore.


Candy Crusher

These “candy crushers” are among the millions who have become hooked on the online game Candy Crush Saga, which many play through Facebook.

2013 April 25, Joe Sylvester, “Gamers have a ‘crush’ on ‘candy’”, in The Times Leader, page 1C

Sure, in the moment you may want to scream at a senior citizen, kick a puppy or burn your home to the ground, but there’s no greater feeling than bonding with another Candy Crusher over how insane the game makes you.

2013 June 21, John Boone, “6 Reasons Candy Crush Saga Is the Most Infuriating Game...Ever”, in E! News; quoted in Bob Johnson, “This Crush harmless; or at least that’s hope”, in Daily Journal, 2013 June 25, page B8

For Facebook users, your progress up the levels can automatically be sent in updates to your Facebook friends (as well as fellow Candy Crushers who you probably don’t even know, so you can see how you measure up).

2013 July 30, Steve Dorfman, “Are you obsessed with Candy Crush? Popular online video game is not so sweet for relationships.”, in The Palm Beach Post, volume 105, number 128, page D5

Now I must admit that unlike many of you fellow Candy Crushers I am only on a meager level 50.

2013 October 24, Kimberlei N. Davis, “‘Sweet,’ ‘tasty,’ ‘delicious’ … ‘Sugar Crush’”, in The Times and Democrat, volume 132, number 297, page A2

Still, it’s not just the decline of civilisation that worries me, nor the (related) effect on Tube manners (Candy Crushers are rarely very chivalrous). Moreover, you could argue that if it wasn’t for smartphones, it would be Sudoku or crosswords or scrimshaw.

2014 March 26, Richard Goodwin, “Candy Crush is the crystal meth of the commute”, in Evening Standard, page 17

It is open to everyone-from hardcore gamers to Candy Crushers and role-playing adventurers.

2014 September 21, “Philanthropies”, in News Sentinel, page 2E

Each phone is taken from one of two cardboard boxes at the front of the bus, silently passed along between the Candy Crushers and, with an occasional over-the-shoulder gesture, moved through an elaborate process to another cardboard box in the back.

2018, Douglas Lain, The Bash Bash Revolution, Night Shade Books

These are the slaves to technology: the Candy Crushers, the Facebook fanatics, the Insta-idlers, the Snapchat servants and Twitter twiddlers who spend every spare minute absorbed by their screens.

2018, Jack Lewis, The Science of Sin: Why We Do The Things We Know We Shouldn’t, Bloomsbury Sigma

She loved music, old movies, and keeping up with family and friends via Facebook and email. She was an accomplished card player, Candy Crusher, and loved all social gatherings.

2019 June 25, “Rose A. Truscio: May 5, 1923 - June 21, 2019”, in The News & Observer, volume 155, number 176, page 7A

‘I’m quite partial to Candy Crush, I play it on my wife’s sometimes.’ […] Your bad marriage does not mean that my marriage will be bad you Candy Crusher, he thought to himself.

One who plays the tile-matching video game Candy Crush.


LeftTuber

The strategy captures a dynamic noted by fellow LeftTuber, film critic Lindsay Ellis, in her analysis of the satire in Mel Brooks’ The Producers.

2018 August 24, Katherine Cross, “The Oscar Wilde of YouTube fights the alt-right with decadence and seduction”, in The Verge (news), Vox, archived from the original on 2023-02-11


LeftTube

Blend of left (“left-wing”) + YouTube, by surface analysis, left + -Tube.

More than most of her contemporaries on “LeftTube,” [Contrapoints] has a style; her editorial signature is an unmistakably ornate flourish.


cissplainer

(LGBT, colloquial, derogatory, chiefly Internet) A person who practices or engages in cissplaining.


hackuser

(video games) A person who claims someone else in an online game is hacking.


sortkey

Output conversion routines may be applied to sortkey items before they are sorted.

1973, Generalized Data Base Management Systems, page 257

Sortkeys are made by picking out delimiting characters and special signs.

1975, Network, Library and Information Science Division of the World Information Systems Exchange, page 15

In data-processing terminology, descriptors by which a file is ordered are called sortkeys. (Likewise, descriptors used in searching are called search keys.) A library catalog may be arranged by sortkey 1: author, and sortkey 2: title.

1985, Dagobert Soergel, Organizing Information: Principles of Data Base and Retrieval Systems (Library and Information Science Series), Academic Press, page 200

(computing) A key (field or value) by which data items are sorted.


Tetris-like

en-adj

Tetris-like (comparative more Tetris-like, superlative most Tetris-like)

more Tetris-like (comparative)
most Tetris-like (superlative)

Resembling Tetris or the pieces in the game of Tetris.


Thunderbolt

By analogy with the speed and power of a thunderbolt.

(computing, trademark) a computer interface standard for connecting devices, combining PCI Express, DisplayPort and DC power in one connector.


Thunderbolt chassis

en-noun

Thunderbolt chassis (plural Thunderbolt chassis)

(computing) An electronics chassis, physically external to a host system, that provides a way to connect PCI Express cards to that host using the Thunderbolt interface.


workgrouping

When your requirements extend to high-bandwidth applications like full-motion video and workgrouping, LANNEV's LANswitch responds with an ATM-ready 1.28 Gbps backplane, providing high-bandwidth on demand over standard 10BaseT networks

1993, Network World, volume 10, number 44, page 5

Workgrouping with other Microsoft operating systems

2001, Ed Tittel, James M. Stewart, Windows 2000 Networking For Dummies, page 69


petahash

(computing, cryptocurrencies) 10¹⁵ hashes.


memory-unsafe

(programming, of a program or programming language) Not memory-safe.


memory safety

(programming) Protection from software bugs and security vulnerabilities resulting from improper memory management, such as buffer overflows and dangling pointers.


memory-safe

(programming, of a program or programming language) Able to ensure memory safety.


pull request

(computing) A request to a repository maintainer to pull in and merge a proposed source code or other change.


pull request

en-verb

pull request (third-person singular simple present pull requests, present participle pull requesting, simple past and past participle pull requested)

pull requests (present singular third-person)
pull requesting (participle present)
pull requested (participle past)
pull requested (past)

The GitHub Archive records any user activity (forking, pull requesting, commenting) on the social coding site GitHub. We queried the GitHub Archive for users who had specified a company name (non-empty string) in their GitHub profile[…]

2014 June 30, Giovanni Cantone, Michele Marchesi, Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming: 15th International Conference, XP 2014, Rome, Italy, May 26-30, 2014, Proceedings, Springer, page 114

We denote the estimated interests of a developer given a repository that he or she forked, watched, committed or pull-requested in GitHub as I(r). Similarly, we denote the estimated interests of a developer given a question that he[…]

2017 August 31, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Afra Mashhadi, Taha Yasseri, Social Informatics: 9th International Conference, SocInfo 2017, Oxford, UK, September 13-15, 2017, Proceedings, Part II, Springer, page 247

GitHub Data Analysis and Its Recommender Systems In this subsection the authors present some related research works ... have studied different user behaviors on GitHub like forking, watching, commenting on issues, pull-requesting and[…]

2018 February 2, Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, Optimizing Contemporary Application and Processes in Open Source Software, IGI Global, page 89

(computing, transitive, intransitive) To submit a pull request.


speedbridge

speedbridge (third-person singular simple present speedbridges, present participle speedbridging, simple past and past participle speedbridged)

speedbridges (present singular third-person)
speedbridging (participle present)
speedbridged (participle past)
speedbridged (past)

He's good at speed bridging and he's also organized a 1v1 tournament on the game mode before.

2021 July 19, Bhagyasri Chaudhury, “Who is Purpled? James Charles slammed for posting pic of Minecraft YouTuber, 17”, in MEAWW

Ten teams of four competitors participate in eight different minigames that test a variety of skills within Minecraft. These skills can range from anything between player-versus-player combat, speedbridging, parkour, building, and more.

2021 October 31, Hannah (Tyler) Dahlberg, “Minecraft Championship (MCC) All-Stars: First half of the competing teams revealed”, in Sportskeeda

This technique is useful in shooting games, PvP games, Minecraft, and clicking games. It provides fast clicking, with the virtue that you can kill more enemies, do speed bridging, and more.

2022 June 6, RJ Frometa, “Drag Click Test: Improve Your Clicks Per Second Rate With Drag Clicking Technique”, in Vents Magazine

Knowing how to speed bridge without falling to your death can come in handy in some of these servers.

2022 September 23, Petra Dolovski, “How to Speed Bridge in Minecraft”, in Diamond Lobby

(video games, Minecraft) To build a bridge under oneself using one of several techniques which minimize the amount of crouching, resulting in a significantly faster pace of construction.


Nintendo generation

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Nintendo generation.

The generation that came of age playing Nintendo video games in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.


siteop

Likewise, one might wish to consider the operational skill of siteops. Perhaps the number one condition desired by those participating in the Warez Scene is that law enforcement cannot detect their activity.

2021, Martin Paul Eve, Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy, page 103

(Internet) A warez site operator; the person in charge of a topsite.


DLX

(computing theory) Abbreviation of dancing links.


Algorithm X

(computing theory) A recursive, nondeterministic, depth-first backtracking algorithm for solving the decision problem of whether an exact cover exists.


listcomp

When you come across something that looks like a listcomp but is surrounded by parentheses, you're looking at a generator: […]

2016, Paul Barry, Head First Python: A Brain-Friendly Guide, O'Reilly, page 508

(programming, Python) A list comprehension.


dynamic-link library

en-noun

dynamic-link library (plural dynamic-link libraries)

(programming, Microsoft) A software library containing some combination of code, data, and resources, capable of being loaded at run time and shared by multiple applications.


genexp

Coordinate term: listcomp

To generate data for other sequence types, a genexp is the way to go.

2022, Luciano Ramalho, chapter 2, in Fluent Python, 2nd edition, O'Reilly

(programming, Python) A generator expression.


dogwater

en-adj

dogwater (comparative more dogwater, superlative most dogwater)

more dogwater (comparative)
most dogwater (superlative)

Compound of dog + water. According to Know Your Meme, the video game sense was popularized by Fortnite streamer Zachology in December 2020 as a euphemism for dogshit (“rubbish, bad”).

This is kinda my favorite exotic, I'm not gonna lie. Some of the exotic released have been dogwater but this one, so good, so good.

2021 April 21, Matthew Wilkins, quoting SypherPK, “Fortnite streamers are in disbelief after watching how over-powered the Exotic Grappler Bow is”, in Sportskeeda, archived from the original on 2023-05-23

Nadia went on, saying that the player "sucks" and is "f**king ass," not letting them get a single response in, even calling her a "dogwater smelling ass b*tch."

2022 October 7, Jacob Hale, “Nadia pops off on toxic Warzone teammate after being told to "abort herself"”, in Dexerto, archived from the original on 2022-12-05

I'd dabbled a little bit before and made a few that either broke rules I didn't know existed (Lutri, the Spellchaser), or were so incredibly dogwater that they lasted maybe a game or two before being pulled apart (Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker), but Kwain was my first love.

2022 November 27, Joe Parlock, “Is It Time To Retire My Favourite Commander Deck?”, in TheGamer, archived from the original on 2022-11-29

Immediately, a presumably male gamer voice said, "Ay yo you're terrible. Dogwater."

2023 January 30, Tatiana Louder, “I'm a 'gamer girl' and a model – just one hour of playing Call of Duty with men left me disgusted”, in The US Sun, archived from the original on 2023-03-22

When we tried to get a statement from Danderson's close online friend, [SEN] Unwell, he refused further comments when we brought up his friendship with Danderson. / "Dogwater," was all Unwell had to share after our initial introductions.

2023 March 30, Bamira Burino, “Murchison Tower levels up”, in The Tritonian, archived from the original on 2023-05-23

(video games, slang) Extremely bad or unskilled (especially at a video game); trash.


index register

(programming) A processor register (or an assigned memory location) used to point to operand addresses during the run of a program, useful for stepping through strings and arrays.


trouble ticket

Trouble tickets should never be deleted, even when they are closed or resolved.

2016, Carneiro and Schmelmer, Microservices From Day One, Apress, page 231


support ticket

Take the number of visitors who submitted a support ticket and divide that by the number of visitors who started the support ticket submission process.

2007, Pedro Sostre, Jennifer LeClaire, Web Analytics for Dummies, Wiley, page 187

They said they got a response on the support ticket, but weren’t issued any refunds.

2022 October 7, Cristina Alexander, “Overwatch 2 text chat bug can make nonrefundable skin purchases”, in Digital Trends

(computing) A computerized request for assistance with a particular issue.


macheps

(computing) Abbreviation of machine epsilon.


SEOer

search engine optimization
search engine optimization

(Internet) A person who carries out search engine optimization.


machine epsilon

en-noun

machine epsilon (plural machine epsilons)

(computing) An upper bound on the relative approximation error due to rounding in floating-point arithmetic, denoted by the symbol ε.


block device

Coordinate term: character device

The network block device is a block device offered by Linux. It behaves as a normal block device that can be formatted with any block-based file system and mounted for use.

2016, Joel Reardon, Secure Data Deletion, Springer, page 137

(computing, Unix) An abstraction for buffered access to hardware devices, especially storage, where data is read or written in arbitrary-sized blocks.


virusproof

en-adj

virusproof (comparative more virusproof, superlative most virusproof)

more virusproof (comparative)
most virusproof (superlative)

People want to be able to install their favorite software on their computer, but they want their computer to be virusproof. Well, the easiest way to make a computer virusproof is to not allow new executable programs to be installed on that system.

2004, Marcus J. Ranum, The Myth of Homeland Security, Indianapolis, IN: Wiley Publishing, page 191

(computing) Resistant to computer viruses.


OTBS

one true brace style
one true brace style#English

(programming) Initialism of one true brace style.


one true brace style

(programming, informal) A source code formatting preference resembling K&R style, but where functions have their opening braces on the same line separated by a space, and the braces are not omitted for a control statement with only a single statement in its scope.


betaish

betaish (comparative more betaish, superlative most betaish)

more betaish (comparative)
most betaish (superlative)

VB6 projects can be migrated to VB .NET, but there's no way to automagically port onwards to C#. There was a betaish tool that converted C# code to VB .NET, but I'm not sure if it was ever officially released.

2002 October 22, Mickey Williams, “Re: .NET Alpha/Beta Code Generator”, in microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.csharp (Usenet)

(computing, informal) Resembling or characteristic of a beta version.


aimbotter

What may seem like an aimbotter to a player could be just a very good player, Smedley pointed out.

2013 February 26, Jenna Pitcher, “PlanetSide 2 boss clarifies banning policies, taking legal action against cheat enablers”, in Polygon

(video games) Someone cheating in a video game using an aimbot.


Inkscape

(computer graphics) A free and open-source vector graphics editor used to create vector images.


Krita

(computer graphics) A free and open-source raster graphics editor designed primarily for digital art and 2D animation.


automoderation

(computing) Automatic moderation of a discussion forum, etc.


automoderate

en-verb

automoderate (third-person singular simple present automoderates, present participle automoderating, simple past and past participle automoderated)

automoderates (present singular third-person)
automoderating (participle present)
automoderated (participle past)
automoderated (past)

(computing) To automatically moderate (a discussion forum, etc.).


memetic warfare

I believe memetic warfare could be effective in countering Daesh’s recruiting and propaganda efforts and in modern conflict in general, including operations other than war. Trolling, it might be said, is the social media equivalent of guerrilla warfare, and memes are its currency of propaganda.

2016 January 10, Jeff Giesea, “It’s Time To Embrace Memetic Warfare”, in Defence Strategic Communications, volume 1, number 1, →DOI, pages 68–76

The concept of 'memetic warfare' emerged out of military debates as an extension of informational war and psyops.

2018, Catherine Happer, Andrew Hoskins, William Merrin, editors, Trump’s Media War, Springer, page 219

Gamergate, "the Fappening" (or Celebgate), and the subsequent Comicsgate are examples of campaigns that deployed active memetic warfare in racialized and gendered ways to attack and drive away a constructed enemy.

2021, Lisa Nakamura, Hanah Stiverson, Kyle Lindsey, Racist Zoombombing, Routledge

The usage of Internet memes in an effort to achieve geopolitical goals or to enact social change.


misrelay

In [6], [7], the author proposed a simple mechanism to detect the link withholding and misrelay launched by MPR nodes based on overhearing of traffic generated by one-hop neighbors.

2010, Vinu V Das, R. Vijayakumar, Narayan C. Debnath, Information Processing and Management, page 430

In colluding misrelay attacks, multiple attackers work in collusion to modify or drop routing packets to disrupt routing operation in a MANET.

2012, MS Ali, PM Jawandhiya, “Security aware routing protocols for mobile ad hoc networks”, in Kamaljit I. Lakhtaria, editor, Technological Advancements and Applications in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks: Research Trends

A study by Kannhavong et al. (2007) shows the impact of a colluding misrelay attack on a mobile node network using OLSR as the routing algorithm.

2018, Khaleel Ahmad, Nur Izura Udzir, Ganesh Chandra Deka, Opportunistic Networks, page 206

(computing) The modification or dropping of routing packets, causing a disruption of communication between nodes in a network.


go brrr

go brrr (third-person singular simple present goes brrr or go brrr, present participle going brrr, simple past went brrr, past participle gone brrr)

goes brrr (present singular third-person)
go brrr (present singular third-person)
going brrr (participle present)
went brrr (past)
gone brrr (participle past)
except go brrr (rare)

In reference to the "Money Printer Go Brrr" meme, created on March 9, 2020, in which a Boomer Wojak representing the United States Federal Reserve uses a literal money printer (which is making the sound brrr like a traditional printer) to create large amounts of money to counter the economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, despite the possibility of increasing inflation. Likely ultimately derived from the line "Money counter go brrr" in the song "No New Friends" by DJ Khaled, Rick Ross, Drake, and Lil Wayne.

The government, in his view, has simply printed too much money—and that "Fed go brrr," is not just funny, but dangerous.

2020 May 12, Jeff John Roberts, “'Fed go brrr': Federal Reserve meme strikes chord with Bitcoin believers”, in Fortune

(title)

2020 August 21, Matthew Gault, “'Marvel Strike Force' Lootbox Printer Accidentally Goes Brrr”, in VICE

(title)

2020 December 23, Justine Harper, “2020 Was The Year Bitcoin Funding Went Brrr”, in Bitcoin Magazine

The ad, which ran for an hour on Friday (January 30) courtesy of digital billboard maker Matei Psatta, shows symbols indicating vastly rising stock prices with the caption "$GME GO BRRR" – alluding to the stock's ticker symbol on the NY Stock Exchange.

2021 January 31, Matthew Neale, “GameStop Redditors buy playful Times Square billboard ad”, in NME

The multicurrency regime should reduce the RBZ's capacity to print money but we saw how within just a few years of the reintroduction of the Zimdollar, the printers had already gone brrr. Now, the RBZ is trying to mop up the excess local currency in the market that’s driving up inflation.

2022 January 12, Leonard Sengere, “Zimbabwe should brace for economic turbulence as USD set to strengthen – IMF”, in Techzim

Canada's central bank has been going Brrr, and it’s not because of the frigid winters in Ottawa. Bank of Canada (BoC) data shows that the money supply is still expanding rapidly in October.

2022 January 18, Stephen Punwasi, “Over 1 In 5 Canadian Dollars Created Didn’t Exist Two Years Ago”, in Better Dwelling

The money printer is about to stop going brrr.

2022 March 16, James Ramsay, “Early Addition: Ranger fans, you really booed the governor on Women's Empowerment Night?”, in Gothamist

(Internet slang, humorous) To go out of control; to increase or thrive despite opposition.

Covid-19 pandemic
United States Federal Reserve


digital storage

(computing) The recording or storing of information (data) in a digital, machine-readable medium.


digital dark age

en-noun

digital dark age (plural digital dark ages)

information technology
information technology

(information technology) The lack of historical information in the digital age as a direct result of outdated file formats, software, or hardware that becomes corrupt, scarce, or inaccessible as technologies evolve and data decays.


honorware

From honor + -ware, since the user is not forced to pay for the software but expected to do so as an honorable gesture.

(software, Canada, US) Synonym of donationware


skill issue

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-skill issue.wav

Literally skill + issue (i.e. the issue is related to one's skill); popularized as a general insult around 2020.

—Dude, they nerfed my main and now I can't win any games! —Sounds like a skill issue lol

Perhaps regarded as one of her funniest lines, she can taunt the enemy after eliminating them by saying, "Wow, cringe," in a fittingly condescending tone. Some other voice lines include, "It's a skill issue," "Enjoy that killcam," "Now they're just feeding," and "Outplayed."

2022 October 21, Joanna Koziol, “D.Va Is Overwatch 2's Most Toxic Character”, in Screen Rant, archived from the original on 2022-11-04

Those players who have ever taken to TikTok to complain about bugs and gameplay issues in a game will often be met with the reply "Skill Issue."]

[2022 November 11, Rebecca Smith, “What Does 'Skill Issue' Mean on TikTok and in Gaming?”, in GameRevolution, archived from the original on 2022-11-28

Well, after playing it myself, I have to say that it is a lot of fun to play as long as you can manage to stay alive long enough to enjoy it! Let me be the first to say, this is a 'skill issue' of course, but ultimately, I just thought my zombies would be stronger.

2022 December 27, Dean Clark, “THE UNLIVING First Impression: Feeling Weak Behind My Forces”, in GameTyrant, archived from the original on 2022-12-27

The game's Reddit forum is swamped with posts about how difficult it is to win a match. Some users may state that this is a 'skill issue.' However, seeing so many players complain about their skill mismatch and inability to win a single match is somewhat concerning.

2023 January 2, Matthew Wilkins, “Is Fortnite Chapter 4 Season 1 the sweatiest season ever?”, in Sportskeeda, archived from the original on 2023-01-04

(video games, slang, sometimes ironic) A lack of skill at a game (suggesting that a player is just making excuses for a loss).


hypocrite commit

hypocrite commit (plural hypocrite commits)

Coined by Qiushi Wu and Kangjie Lu at the University of Minnesota in 2021.

We then systematically study hypocrite commits, including identifying immature vulnerabilities and potential vulnerability-introducing minor patches. We also identify multiple factors that can increase the stealthiness of hypocrite commits and render the patch-review process less effective.

2021, Qiushi Wu, Kangjie Lu, “On the feasibility of stealthily introducing vulnerabilities in open-source software via hypocrite commits”, in Proc. Oakland

(computing) A commit (code patch submission) that appears benign but introduces a security vulnerability.


hop and bop

Mainly for younger gamers, An American Tail: Fievel's Gold Rush features kid-friendly, hop-and-bop game play that will challenge players […]

2002, Nintendo of America, Inc, Nintendo Power Advance, page 112

Game styles for computer and mobile devices include the following: […] In addition, there are action, sci-fi, survival, horror, racing, sports, military, realism, fantasy, hop and bop, puzzle, strategy, gambling, cards, […]

2019, Elaine A. Clark, There's Money Where Your Mouth Is (Fourth Edition)

(video games, often attributive) A style of platform game in which enemies are defeated by jumping on them.


PvPer

From PvP (“Player versus Player”) + -er.

(video games) A player who participates in PvP activities in a video game.


LNMP

(Internet) Acronym of Linux, Nginx, MySQL, and PHP


goodset

From good + set. GoodTools was a set of software tools for auditing ROMs.

(video games) A large romset containing every working ROM available for a particular system.


fullset

(video games) A complete romset distributed as a single package.


hardsub

en-verb

hardsub (third-person singular simple present hardsubs, present participle hardsubbing, simple past and past participle hardsubbed)

hardsubs (present singular third-person)
hardsubbing (participle present)
hardsubbed (participle past)
hardsubbed (past)

(computing) To hard code subtitles onto a video file, permanently modifying the file.


PTF

program temporary fix
w:program temporary fix

(software) Initialism of program temporary fix.

product temporary fix
w:product temporary fix

(software) Initialism of product temporary fix.


APAR

authorized program analysis report
w:Authorized Program Analysis Report

(software) Acronym of authorized program analysis report.


Barton-Nackman trick

The technique was introduced by John Barton and Lee Nackman.

curiously recurring template pattern
curiously recurring template pattern

(programming) A form of restricted template expansion in C++, characterized by an in-class friend function definition appearing in the base class template component of the curiously recurring template pattern.


useR

(programming, slang) Someone who uses the R programming language.


CRAN

Comprehensive R Archive Network
w:Comprehensive R Archive Network

(programming) Acronym of Comprehensive R Archive Network.


WebMD

WebMD (third-person singular simple present WebMDs, present participle WebMDing, simple past and past participle WebMDed or WebMD'd)

WebMDs (present singular third-person)
WebMDing (participle present)
WebMDed (participle past)
WebMDed (past)
WebMD'd (participle past)
WebMD'd (past)

There had been signs. Dana saw them in 2008, when she was away attending American University. “We would have the same conversation three times in one day,” she recalled. B. also told her she felt a tingling in her face. “I WebMD’d it, and I said, ‘Oh, she has Alzheimer’s.’ ”

2019 January 28, Lavanya Ramanathan, “Lifestyle guru B. Smith has Alzheimer’s. Her husband has a girlfriend. Her fans aren’t having it.”, in The Washington Post

It’s like being scared of spiders and then constantly scanning every room you enter for spiders and WebMDing “spider bites side effects.” Or freaking out about the state of our democracy and studying the 25th Amendment at 3 a.m.

2020 October 11, Elahe Izadi, “The news is driving you mad. And that’s why you can’t stop devouring it.”, in The Washington Post

And as you consulted the pediatrician and read child development books and WebMD’d your questions, you became familiar with the general time frame in which to expect many of those new skills to develop.

2021, Lea Ann Garfias, Everything You Need to Know about Homeschooling: A Comprehensive, Easy-to-Use Guide for the Journey from Early Learning through Graduation, Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, page 63

(transitive) To search for (something) on the WebMD healthcare website.


(video games) Initialism of Mario Kart Wii.


DPV

delegated path validation
w:delegated path validation

(cryptography) Initialism of delegated path validation.


DPV

Design Performance Viewer
w:Design Performance Viewer

(computing) Initialism of Design Performance Viewer.


hug of death

Reddit hug of death ― hug of death whose spike in usage is caused by being linked on Reddit

But the law of trespass to chattels embeds good intuitions about balancing one person's ownership with another's casual interaction. It is fine if you pet my dog, just don't pet him so much that his hair falls off! It's fine if you link my content, just don't give my server the Internet hug of death.⁴²

2021 February 25, Joshua A. T. Fairfield, Runaway Technology: Can Law Keep Up?, Cambridge University Press, →LCCN, page 59

(Internet) A metaphorical hug given by an extreme spike in usage of an Internet service that causes an outage of said service.


multithreadable

(computing) Suitable for multithreading.


UCB

(computing) Synonym of BSD (“Berkeley System Distribution”)


bluebugging

(computer security) The practice of secretly installing a back door on a mobile phone and then remotely monitoring conversations by means of Bluetooth technology.


trust the process

(Internet, informal) One should have faith or be confident that everything will work out as planned.


deepfakery

Bad cops are using deepfakery in order to help convict bad guys, just as bad guys are using deepfakery to help convict good guys, leaving us to ponder more angles than you might expect going into the show. “The Capture” is frightening, a little brainy, and damning of those who refuse to recognize deepfakery for the crisis it has become.

2020 August 14, Matthew Gilbert, “Watch ‘The Capture,’ but don’t believe your eyes”, in The Boston Globe

Skistimas has also performed as Five Times August, whose Twitter account he used last week to get the goofiness started. I am not going to link to it. He posted a video supposedly showing Biden deepfakery. It has been viewed 1.4 million times.

2022 August 2, Tim Rogers, “No, There Are Not 10 Joe Bidens”, in D Magazine

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

(artificial intelligence) The creation and use of deepfakes, often with malicious intent.


backwrap

en-noun

backwrap (countable and uncountable, plural backwraps)

(computing, dated) A word wrap feature that restores a word to the preceding line when space is made for it by deletion.


backwrap

en-verb

backwrap (third-person singular simple present backwraps, present participle backwrapping, simple past and past participle backwrapped)

backwraps (present singular third-person)
backwrapping (participle present)
backwrapped (participle past)
backwrapped (past)

Backwrapping words occurs when enough text is deleted to permit one or more words to be formatted into the shortened line.

1983, The Seybold Report on Professional Computing, page 19

(computing, dated) To restore a word to the preceding line when space is made for it by deletion.


octocore

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


spring-loaded mode

en-noun

spring-loaded mode (plural spring-loaded modes)

(computing) A type of mode in a user interface that is kept in place only through some constant action on the part of the user.


agendapost

This is a thread about climate change. Please spam your "Jew Bad" agendaposts elsewhere

2021 May 10, @Schingkenspigg1, Twitter, archived from the original on 2021-05-10

Really learn to read the fucking room, not everything needs to be an agendapost

2021 December 31, @prolapsedbussy, Twitter, archived from the original on 2021-12-31

(Internet slang, sometimes sarcastic) A post made on a lighthearted or non-political online community which promotes an overt political agenda.


dock connector

(computing, computer hardware) A connector used to attach a mobile electronic device simultaneously to multiple external resources.


webfont

The second approach is to use fonts that were designed for computer use like TTF and include them in the game as a webfont.

2017, Travis Faas, An Introduction to HTML5 Game Development with Phaser.js, CRC Press, page 237

A webfont is a font that's not pre-installed on the user's computer when browsing a website, but instead the webfont reference is coded in the backend and is downloaded when the user opens the website in a browser.

2017, Marli Ritter, Cara Winterbottom, UX for the Web, Packt Publishing, page 31

(computing, Internet) A font designed for or used on the Internet.


CSSer

(computing, informal) A person who writes CSS (cascading style sheets) markup.


September that never ended

the September that never ended (canonical)

It's moot now. September 1993 will go down in net.history as the September that never ended.

1994 January 25, Dave Fischer, “longest USENET thread ever”, in alt.folklore.computers (Usenet)

Eternal September
Eternal September#English

(Internet slang) Synonym of Eternal September


ultra shortcut

(video games) In racing games, a shortcut that allows the player to skip the majority of a track, usually by means of a glitch.


countryball

From country + ball; compare Polandball.

The first countryball to appear was Polandball, a cartoon character drawn in the shape of a ball with the white and red colour schemes of the Polish flag. Polandball wants to go into space but feels threatened by Germany and Russia. Soon other countryballs appeared all in the guise of different national flags. The countryball for the USA, which wears the stars and stripes and cool sunglasses, is egocentric, with no idea of anything that happens outside the USA but always ready to rush […]

2017, Delia Chiaro, The Language of Jokes in the Digital Age: Viral Humour, Routledge

Four days earlier, a group of unidentified students covered nearly the entire tunnel with colorful messages supporting the Hong Kong protests, backing autonomy for Tibet and Taiwan, and condemning the ethnic cleansing of Uighurs in Xinjiang. One section depicted a Taiwan flag beside a countryball of Hong Kong and a flag of East Turkestan, the region from which Uighurs hail.

2019 December 4, Efua Agyare-Kumi, “U of R becomes battleground in China, Hong Kong conflict”, in Rochester City Newspaper

(originally Internet slang, fandom slang) A country drawn in the Polandball artstyle, in which countries are personified as crudely drawn blobs.


puppetize

en-verb

puppetize (third-person singular simple present puppetizes, present participle puppetizing, simple past and past participle puppetized)

puppetizes (present singular third-person)
puppetizing (participle present)
puppetized (participle past)
puppetized (past)

(transitive, computing) To configure (a system) using the Puppet software configuration management tool.


alignment problem

Popularized by the 2020 book The Alignment Problem by Brian Christian.

As [Brian] Christian notes, the alignment problem bears a real resemblance to parenting: “The story of human civilization has always been about how to instill values in strange, alien, human-level intelligences who will inevitably inherit the reins of society from us—namely, our kids.”

2022 March 1, Rob Toews, “7 Must-Read Books About Artificial Intelligence”, in Forbes, New York, N.Y.: Forbes Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-08-31

Properly defining and solving the alignment problem won’t be easy; it will require us to develop a broad, scientifically based theory of intelligence.

2022 December 13, Melanie Mitchell, “What Does It Mean to Align AI With Human Values?”, in Quanta Magazine, New York, N.Y.: Simons Foundation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-15

For years, AI ethicists have worried about this so-called alignment problem. In short: How do we ensure that the AI we build, which might very well be significantly smarter than any person who has ever lived, is aligned with the interests of its creators and of the human race? An unaligned superintelligent AI could be quite a problem.

2023 February 27, Derek Thompson, “The AI Disaster Scenario”, in The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-22

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence#Noun

(artificial intelligence) The problem of how to create a superintelligent artificial intelligence whose values would align with the interests of humankind.

AI alignment#The alignment problem
Brian Christian
The Alignment Problem


polygon-circle graph

en-noun

polygon-circle graph (plural polygon-circle graphs)

A common generalization of these two [circle graphs and circular arc graphs] are polygon-circle graphs, intersection graphs of convex polygons inscribed to the circle. This class was first suggested by M. Fellows [personal communication with the first author] in 1988, when it was pointed out that this class of graphs is closed under taking induced minors.

2004, Jan Kratochvíl, Martin Pergel, “Two Results on Intersection Graphs of Polygons”, in Giuseppe Liotta, editor, GD 2003 International Symposium on Graph Drawing (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), volume 2912, Springer-Verlag, →DOI, page 60

(graph theory) A graph (set of connected points) in which each vertex corresponds to a convex polygon circumscribed in a common circle, and in which (graph) vertices are adjacent iff their corresponding polygons intersect geometrically.


dabloon

From English doubloon, a former Spanish gold coin.

Alexis Bishop, an actor who lives in Orlando, Fla., keeps track of her 174 dabloons on a whiteboard in her office.

2022 November 24, Anna Grace Lee, Callie Holtermann, “What Are ‘Dabloons,’ the Imaginary Currency of TikTok?”, in The New York Times, retrieved 2022-11-25

This is likely unintentional, stemming from financially literate users building on posts that give away unreasonable quantities of dabloons, but it’s amusingly managed to simulate a real financial disaster without any of its discourse.

2022 November 24, Jess Weatherbed, “Hello traveler…have ye heard about TikTok Dabloons?”, in The Verge, retrieved 2022-11-25

(Internet slang, neologism) A fictional currency among certain TikTok users, earned and lost by random encounters while scrolling, and associated with pictures of cats.


linalg

(slang or programming) Abbreviation of linear algebra.


Macquarium

Macquarium (plural Macquaria or Macquariums)

Blend of Mac + aquarium, coined by computer writer and Macquarium creator Andy Ihnatko (originally as a joke regarding the approaching obsolescence of early Compact Macintosh models).

An aquarium (fish tank) constructed using the case of a defunct Macintosh personal computer.

Andy Ihnatko
Compact Macintosh
Macquarium


u'd

(informal, Internet, text messaging) Abbreviation of you'd (you had or you would).


FarmViller

My roommates and I have become diehard FarmVillers.

2009 November 19, Elena Shufelt, “Farming it all away: One writer examines what’s it like to be down on the Facebook farm”, in Reporter, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Les Hulcoop, a recently retired Dutchess Cornell Cooperative Extension agriculture educator, said the number of Web-based “Farmvillers” vs. real farmers is 60:1.

2010 March 23, Sarah Bradshaw, “Facebook seen as tool for reaching tomorrow’s farmers”, in Poughkeepsie Journal, 225th year, number 189, page 5B

"There's a girl I went to school with, and who I never speak to, but I now fertilise her crops for her," she says. To the uninitiated, this behaviour might seem bizarre, but hardened FarmVillers say all of this helps you win extra points and prizes.
A later version of the page shows Farmvillers.

2010 March 25, Rajini Vaidyanathan, “Down on the FarmVille”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 2010-03-26

FarmVillers total something like 1% of the world’s population!

2010 April 23, Bill Scott, “Discombobulating thingamajigs”, in Daily Herald-Tribune, Grande Prairie, Alta., page 42

In addition to marathon planting and harvesting, a Farmviller can earn coin and experience points by helping friends with their farms.

2010 April 25, Mark LaFlamme, “Ah, life in Farmville”, in Sun Journal, Lewiston, Me., section b, page 4

There’s a new hybrid of online gamer. They live on Facebook, flooding our news feeds with updates and friend requests. You might know one. They’re called ‘The Farmvillers,’ and there are 75 million of them.

2010 June, Katie Mackay, “Farmville: Are we addicted?”, in Impact, number 204, page 60

The first question that springs to mind is: are Google+ users going to be similar to Facebook’s? That’s a hard question to answer but an important one nonetheless. Why would people leave the comfort of their familiar and well inhabited social platform to move to Google’s? (No one believes Google will attract a lot of social virgins.) Are these the FarmVillers? Considering the way Google+ is being positioned, you might think “no, they’re not”.

2011 Q3, “GoogleVille: Will Google+ Games Be Anything Like Their Facebook Counterparts?”, in Control: Magazine for the Games Industry, 7th international edition, page 21, column 2

Farmvillers must plant something called a Serve Money Tree to see a sign-up promotion for the card, linked to a Serve account.

2012 May 22, Catherine New, “FarmVille Gets Its Own American Express Prepaid Card”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 2019-02-06

Despite being categorized as mind-numbing inculcation of repetitive behavior (Liszkiewicz, 2010), Farmvillers derive a great deal of pleasure from the activities associated with farming but also with the pattern of sociality that is architecturally driven into the game space where “code is law” (Lessig, 1999).

2014, Benjamin Burroughs, “Facebook and FarmVille: A Digital Ritual Analysis of Social Gaming”, in Games and Culture, →DOI

The social gaming world of Farmville can be taken for inspiration, as a familiar visualization tool and community-building platform for the maintenance of a farm and its related social transactions. The game world simulates the development of a virtual plot of land, and also provides opportunities for individual Farmvillers to collaborate and form social bonds.

2015 October 15, FarmShare, “FarmShare White Paper”, in Medium, archived from the original on 2015-12-22

That hack exposed the usernames and passwords of 170 million Farmville, Words With Friends, and other mobile game players everywhere. […] Bet you regret building your agrarian empire now, farmvillers!

2020 January 7, Rachel Kraus, “Yes, Hackers Might Have Your Apple ID, But Don't Stress Too Much”, in Mashable, archived from the original on 2020-01-07

A player of the agriculture-simulation social network game FarmVille.


NeRF

neural radiance field
neural radiance field#English

(computer graphics) Acronym of neural radiance field.


ronnabyte

The current times are characterized by a proliferation of data in a number of fields. We see continuous production, with the units of large amounts of data moving from exabytes to zettabytes. So much so that the International Bureau of Weights and Measures has recently introduced new metrics of ronnabytes (10²⁷) and queccabytes (10³⁰) to account for the global growth in data storage requirements.

2020, Ali R. Hurson, editor, Advances in Computers, volume 119, Academic Press, page 122

(computing) One octillion (10²⁷) bytes. SI symbol: RB.


archpaladin

/ɑɹt͡ʃ.ˈpælədɪn/

From arch- + paladin. Originally from the Dungeons & Dragons franchise, in which the fictional deity, Heironeous, is known as The Archpaladin, and the AdventureQuest game.

Foremost in her mind has always been to serve the Archpaladin [Heironeous] and improve the lives of others with His teachings.

2004 August, Rick LaRue, “Greyhawk’s Knights of Holy Shielding: Valor Is Our Blood!”, in Dungeon, number 113, page 94

Heironeous, The Invincible, The Archpaladin, is the champion of rightful combat and chivalrous deeds.

2007 April, Sean K Reynolds, “Heironeous”, in Dragon, volume XXXI, number 11, issue 354, page 19

Mostly whiteshirts, from initiate Healers to patrolmen to Electors and ArchPaladins in full battle gear.

2010, Tim Akers, The Horns of Ruin, Amherst, N.Y.: Pyr, page 266

It's best if you can find a friend or some players to help you out with each quests for Archpaladin.

2019 August 1, SyedXD123, the_beast69, “What Class?”, in reddit.com

History was wrought romanticised tales of grand crusades lead by heroic Archpaladins of old, spreading God's word to the dark and corrupt corners of the kingdom through their might and zeal.

2021, C. R. Butterworth, The Exile, Liberation (Book 1), C. R. Butterworth

Things like using Archpaladin to mitigate true damage, or recommending Health Vamp on farming classes that don't benefit from it.

2022 February 18, xiaomole, “Combatting Misinformation”, in reddit.com

(very rare, science fiction, fantasy, video games) A supreme paladin.


wikibreak

(wiki jargon) A period during which a person does not edit or contribute to a wiki, usually in order to focus on other concerns.


Vlogmas

Only the bravest online celebrities dare to take on Vlogmas. […] Are you ready to give Vlogmas your very own spin? How would the intro to your Christmas countdown look?

2016, Vlog It!: The Yearbook, Scholastic Children’s Books

What motivated you to open up about your student debt at this point? […] [Aja Dang:] Then I opened up during Vlogmas. Vlogmas is during December, you vlog every single day. There’s not necessarily a rhyme or reason for it, you just do it. You show people your day. My day happened to be trying to pay off my student loan payment for the month.

2018 May 23, Amanda Duberman, “This Influencer Is Using YouTube To Speak Frankly About Student Loan Debt”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 2019-02-14

I was going to say, when we talk tomorrow, we need to discuss your strategy for Vlogmas.

2019, Sophie Ranald, Out with the Ex, in with the New, Bookouture

And, on the countdown to Christmas, the couple go one step further – recording a video every single day in December, as part of ‘Vlogmas’.

2022 November 1, “Nadia Sawalha and Mark Adderley”, in Best

(Internet) A Christmas celebration that involves publishing a vlog every day in December until Christmas.


expression template

expression template (plural expression templates)

(programming, C++) A template that builds structures representing a computation at compile time, where expressions are evaluated only as needed to produce efficient code.


updoot

'Thanks for the updoots in hopes of finding her. I'm hoping she didn't cease to exist after I saw her.'

2015, Amanda Fisher, quoted in "My identical stranger: Woman is shocked to find her doppelganger on Instagram", Daily Mail, 11 August 2015

Creating and designing asthetically pleasing maps to share on Reddit for updoots and karma.

2015, anonymous, quoted in Kim Axelsson & Kasper Batalje, "Utforskning i spel och immersionens djup", thesis submitted to Södertörn University, page 34

A third poster provided a more detailed response, writing “Woke up to so many kind words and updoots [upvotes]. Thank you everyone! I’m really touched by the support of this community. You guys are awesome.”

2019, anonymous, quoted in Brent J Hale, "Responding to depression-related Imgur posts: A content analysis of social support and nonbona fide features in user-generated comments", Digital Health, Volume 5 (2019) (link)


updoot

en-verb

updoot (third-person singular simple present updoots, present participle updooting, simple past and past participle updooted)

updoots (present singular third-person)
updooting (participle present)
updooted (participle past)
updooted (past)


e-govern

e-govern (third-person singular simple present e-governs, present participle e-governing, simple past and past participle e-governed)

e-governs (present singular third-person)
e-governing (participle present)
e-governed (participle past)
e-governed (past)

(politics, Internet) To engage in e-governance.


e-champion

Identify e-champions, and an e-minister if possible, for every government department.

2005, Mehdi Khosrowpour, Practicing E-government, page 230

(Internet) A person responsible for evangelism of Internet use within an organization.


e-envoy

Recommendation 14.2 of this report stated 'the Government should appoint an “e-envoy” with a wider remit than originally proposed.

2004, Stephen Battersby, W. H. Bassett, Clay's Handbook of Environmental Health, page 187

(UK politics, Internet, historical) The person in charge of the Office of the e-Envoy, which existed from 1999 to 2004 with the purpose of putting all government departments online.


e-minister

(politics, Internet) A minister responsible for e-government policy.


APFS

(computing) Initialism of Apple File System.


downdoot

downdoot (third-person singular simple present downdoots, present participle downdooting, simple past and past participle downdooted)

downdoots (present singular third-person)
downdooting (participle present)
downdooted (participle past)
downdooted (past)


Rabin-Karp algorithm

en-noun

Rabin-Karp algorithm (plural Rabin-Karp algorithms)

Created by Richard M. Karp and Michael O. Rabin (1987).

(computer science) A string-searching algorithm that uses hashing to find an exact match of a pattern string in a text.


Borůvka's algorithm

(graph theory) A greedy algorithm for finding a minimum spanning tree in a graph, or a minimum spanning forest in the case of a graph that is not connected.


post-build

a post-build event

a post-build verification script

(programming) After the build step that creates an executable program from source code.


Tarjan's algorithm

strongly connected component
strongly connected component

(graph theory) An algorithm for finding the strongly connected components (SCCs) of a directed (connected) graph by using the depth-first search function.


van Emde Boas tree

van Emde Boas tree (plural van Emde Boas trees)

(computer science) A tree data structure that implements an associative array with keys of up to m bits. It can perform all operations in a time proportional to the log of the size of its largest element, or equivalently with an upper bound equal to the logarithm of 2 multiplied by m.


Zobrist hashing

(computer science) A hash function technique used in representing the state of board games which helps to avoid analyzing the same position more than once.


Ratfor

(computer languages) A version of Fortran with newer C-style control structures.


null-terminated

PostgreSQL has given you a text value, and text values are not null-terminated. You will need to convert fileNameText into a null-terminated string.

2003, Korry Douglas, Susan Douglas, PostgreSQL […], Sams Publishing, page 225

(programming, of data) Stored in memory followed by a null character.


Terrarian

Join the large community of Terrarians that love and play this game on a regular basis.

2015, Kinetik Gaming, Terraria Game Guide (Unofficial), Lulu.com

The 3DS port supports up to four Terrarians via local WiFi, while the Wii U equivalent has full online support for up to eight players, or four player splitscreen with classic Wii Remotes.

2015 July 31, Brenna Hillier, “Terraria coming to 3DS and Wii U in early 2016”, in VG247, archived from the original on 2022-12-11

DO YOU LIKE FICTION FOR MINECRAFTERS? You’ll Love Books for Terrarians! […] Join Miles and his friends on amazing adventures in The Tales of a Terrarian Warrior series!

2016, “[Advertisement]”, in Winter Morgan, Creeper Invasion (An Unofficial Minetrapped Adventure; #5), New York, N.Y.: Sky Pony Press

Terrarians! Tonight we fish … in Hell!

2016, Terraria: Exploration and Adventure Handbook, Puffin Books, published 2017

A player of the action-adventure sandbox game Terraria.


RuneScaper

Providing a time and place can be the first step in building some community with and among your players; if you get all your RuneScapers together in the training center once a week for an hour, it’s going to turn into a genuine event before you know it.

2007, Eli Neiburger, “The Gaming World, and How It Can Be Appropriately Appropriated into the Library World”, in Gamers … in the Library?!: The Why, What, and How of Videogame Tournaments for All Ages, Chicago, Ill.: American Library Association, page 38

The interface of creating an account enacts the assemblage; it is the gift that inaugurates the being of a runescaper (or run-e-scapist if you like).

2010, Joost Van Loon, “Networked Being: Transactions in On-line Gaming Communities”, in Parallax, volume 16, number 1, →DOI, pages 19–27

Among us are a diverse populous of Beliebers, photographers, flat earthers, snowboarders, National voters, Armenians, coffee drinkers, Runescapers, wheelchair users, Muslims, bloggers and Ultimate players.

2018 October 8, “Making an ass out of u and me”, in Canta, number 13

Dutch RuneScaper MarioSonic visited the company for this reason in 2019. RuneScape was a place where MarioSonic felt like himself.

2021, “RuneScape, IRL”, in Ian Tucker, Brett Israel, Sanjay Dharawat, editors, RuneScape: The First 20 Years—An Illustrated History, Dark Horse Books, page 095

If we talk about OSRS, it became a major hit and you can just see that from the sheer amount of players the game has, which is more than 70% of the whole RuneScape players combined as the RuneScapers just love the old school vibe.

2021 April 22, “Old School RuneScape vs World of Warcraft Classic”, in Nyasa Times, archived from the original on 2021-05-14

A player of the fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game RuneScape.


Cyrus–Beck algorithm

(computer science) A generalized algorithm for line clipping.


Nicholl–Lee–Nicholl algorithm

(computer science) A fast algorithm for line clipping that reduces the chances of clipping a single line segment multiple times.


Liang–Barsky algorithm

(computer science) A line clipping algorithm that uses the parametric equation of a line and inequalities describing the range of the clipping window to determine the intersections between the line and the clip window.


license laundering

(Wikimedia jargon, copyright law) The replacement of the license of a copyrighted creative work with a different license, for which the copyright holder has not given their permission.


GitHubber

At 29 years old, I was the oldest of the three GitHubbers and had accumulated a proportionally larger amount of debt and monthly expenditure.

2009, Tom Preston-Werner, “How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft (continued)”, in Chad Fowler, The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development, Raleigh, N.C.: The Pragmatic Bookshelf, part I (Choosing Your Market), chapter 6 (Don’t Listen to Your Parents), page 26

GitHubbers are still committed to the principles of bootstrapping, especially for younger startups, and [Tom] Preston-Werner doesn’t think their messaging on that score will change any time soon.

2012 July 9, J. O’Dell, “Why GitHub abandoned the bootstrapper’s ship for a $100M Series A”, in VentureBeat, archived from the original on 2022-11-10

According to GitHubber Brian Doll, when GitHub first started, they just had a row of tables and everyone worked at the tables. […] An Open Organization may require a whole lot of arguing. GitHub is not a quiet place to work. […] GitHubbers see arguing as the process to making good decisions.

2014, Philip A. Foster, “GitHub: ‘Creating Awesome’—A Case Study”, in The Open Organization: A New Era of Leadership and Organizational Development, Farnham, Surrey: Gower Publishing Limited, part I (Foundations of an Open Organization), pages 32, 36, and 37

I thought that’s how I become a good GitHubber -- that’s the idea of success.

2014 September, Shanley Kane, quoting Julie Ann Horvath, “Interview with Julie Ann Horvath”, in Model View Culture: New Writing on Technology, Diversity and Culture (Quarterly No. 3), San Francisco, Calif.: Feminist Technology Collective, Inc., page 12

For example, consider GitHub’s San Francisco headquarters. […] Past the waiting room is a massive open area, complete with a full bar, a cafeteria, foosball tables, ping-pong tables, pool tables, and a DJ station. This is where GitHubbers have lunch, hold meetups, and relax.

2016, Yevgeniy Brikman, “Startup Culture”, in Hello, Startup: A Programmer’s Guide to Building Products, Technologies, and Teams, Sebastopol, Calif.: O’Reilly Media, Inc., part III (Teams), pages 411–412

An employee of GitHub, Inc., a developer platform that allows developers to create, store, manage and share their code.


manularity

(computing, slang, rare) labor-intensiveness, especially in contrast to automation.


MMORPGer

The author immersed herself in the game and the online gaming culture; in doing so she discovered who these MMORPGers really are, and in these pages she destroys many stereotypes about the gamers.

2007, Choice, American Library Association, page 826

I also know hard-core MMORPGers who tell me, “Do not ever get into WoW. It’s why I don’t have a girlfriend— or a life.”

2009, Carrie Tucker, I Love Geeks: The Official Handbook, Adams Media

To the MMORPGer, the single-player video game in which you blow up pixilated alien spacecraft is not only antiquated but dull as dishwater because you're all alone and nothing more than the muzzle of a laser gun. […] MMORPGers will play one of their games for years, without ever reaching an “end” or “winning,” because it's about more than winning or reaching a high score.

2010, Kate Stevens, Freak Nation: A Field Guide to 101 of the Most Odd, Extreme, and Outrageous American Subcultures, Adams Media

But as a scientist, who is also a parent, an avid television watcher, and an MMORPG-er, I cannot in good conscience issue an across-the-board dictum that children should avoid television and gaming altogether.

2010, Esther Yoder Strahan, Wallace E. Dixon, Jr., J. Burton Banks, Parenting with Reason: Evidence-Based Approaches to Parenting Dilemmas, Routledge

The first study, by Metcalf and Pammer (2011), used a modified Stroop task to investigate the existence of attentional bias for gaming-related words in excessive Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Gamers (MMORPGers). […] Results showed that excessive MMORPGers had attentional bias toward negative and MMORPG words.

2017, Yongjun Zhang, Yamikani Ndasauka, Juan Hou, Jiawen Chen, Li zhuang Yang, Ying Wang, Long Han, Junjie Bu, Peng Zhang, Yifeng Zhou, Xiaochu Zhang, “Cue-induced Behavioral and Neural Changes among Excessive Internet Gamers and Possible Application of Cue Exposure Therapy to Internet Gaming Disorder”, in Xiaochu Zhang, Zhiling Zou, Andreas J. Fallgatter, editors, Beyond Reward: Insights from Love and Addiction, Frontiers Media, page 43

Regardless of how you do or don’t play games—whether you are an MMORPGer, a console gamer, a D&Der, a Settlers of Catan enthusiast, or someone who has never gamed before but who is perhaps curious about gaming or instructional design—I hope that in reading this book you will find a lens that will be useful to you in your own life, whether for teaching, writing, learnining, training, game development, or simply the enjoyment of games.

2018, Carly Finseth, Teach Like a Gamer: Adapting the Instructional Design of Digital Role-Playing Games (Studies in Gaming), Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, page 12


World of Warcrafter

World of Warcrafter (plural World of Warcrafters)

Ellison began to rattle off the list of cliques as he pointed to each table with his sandwich. “The Potheads, Preps, Socially-Awkwards, Nerds, World-of-Warcrafters, Lax-Bros, and the Footballers.” The World-of-Warcrafters sitting at the table next to us overheard him and smirked. A few stood up and did a little cheer while making signs of the letter W with their fingers.

2011, Madison Adler, The Glass Wall, Bento Box Books, page 55

Only adults use normal television these days. I’m going to stream via gaming channels. Kids all over the world are hooked up. And don’t worry - it’s not just going out to the World of Warcrafters.

2011, C T Furlong, Killer Star, Inside Pocket, page 6

It was almost laughable how cliché the guys seemed. I saw video gamers who stared down the camera like it was trying to snatch their Mountain Dew and Ho-Hos away from them. Chill, World of Warcrafters! You’re trying to get a date, not ransack my castle. (Is that even what happens in the game? I’m not sure. The only video games I’ve ever played are from the Mario Brothers franchise.)

2012, Anna Goldfarb, Clearly, I Didn’t Think This Through: The Story of One Tall Girl’s Impulsive, Ill-Conceived, and Borderline Irresponsible Life Decisions, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books, page 243

Transforming your negative boxes of safety into positive ones: What did you do in your negative boxes of safety? Hang with fellow World Of Warcrafters, play at the local magic card shop, look for smokers, look for stoners -- guess what? You had the perfect skills to find boxes of safety.

2012 September 22, Ken Rabow, “The Slacker's Guide To Success -- Step Nine: Feeling Safe "Out There"”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 2022-12-15

Massive Multiplayers / Here is where the noble World of Warcraft player sits. […] Uh. World-of-Warcrafters sit right here, below yawning commuters idly thumbing Android Bejeweled Clone #32, because, precisely, I'm talking about The Real World. Players of Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games are an iconic impression, in the corner of the eye of every earth resident—not just the ones who know about games.

2013 January 21, Tim Rogers, “The Hierarchy of Video Game Haters”, in Kotaku, archived from the original on 2019-02-09

World of Warcrafters, LARPers, Settlers of Catan? Weird. Beliebers, Swifties, Directioners? Weirder. Paleos, vegans, carb loaders, ovolactovegetarians? Definitely weird. Face it. We’re all weird. So why are companies still trying to build products for the masses? Why are we still acting like the masses even exist? Weird is the new normal. And only companies that figure that out have any chance of survival. In this book, Seth Godin shows you how.

2015, Seth Godin, We Are All Weird: The Rise of Tribes and the End of Normal, Portfolio Penguin, back cover

Virtual communities are well-established, so the real winners of this pandemic may be the Redditors, the World of Warcrafters, the amateur porn-trepreneurs.

2020 March 16, Dan Zak, “Coronavirus is a test that no one knows how to pass”, in The Oklahoman, page A8

A player of the massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft.


task manager

(computing) A system monitor program used to provide information about the processes and applications running on a computer, as well as the general status of the computer.


datathon

(informal, programming) A kind of hackathon focusing on the use of large data sets.


Warcrafter

Within a few weeks of its release, avid Warcrafters had uploaded dozens of home-brew scenarios, filling up the file areas of online services and bulletin boards. […] Warcraft II may be the current king of the scenario editing hill, but the battle is far from over.

(Can we date this quote?), Computer Gaming World

734 Maps for Warcraft II, from newcomer Cybertooth Technology, offers exactly—wild guess here—734 new maps for map-starved Warcrafters, including hundreds designed specifically for multiplayer battle.

“Abandon all hope of a real life, all ye who enter here.” There’s no warning label like that on the “Warcraft III” box, but there should be. […] So I took a crash course at the elbow of a veteran Warcrafter, who offered his expertise to get me started in the latest incarnation of the game.

2002 August 19, Phil Larose, “Game goes beyond addictive”, in The Island Packet, page 9-B

A player of the Warcraft franchise of video games.

Choose from the classic Warcraft races and character types for your avatar, and then join thousands of other Warcrafters to investigate dungeons, huge cities, snowy mountains, magical forests and scorching deserts.

2003 February, “World of Warcraft”, in Hyper, page 28

To players, this equates to smooth, stable and secure Internet-based gameplay with thousands of other Warcrafters, simultaneously, in that communal orgy of ogre-slaying way of MMORPGs. World of Warcraft is undergoing extensive beta testing with retail launch scheduled for October.

2004 September 3, The Palm Beach Post, volume 96, number 147, page 19

Not liking the thought of jail, some of the biggest private servers disbanded. Toxic Wow, Ani Wow, Wowfusion, Wowscape: all gone. This, many Warcrafters believed, was the beginning of the end.

2010 April, Pavel Barter, “Are You Being Served?”, in PC Zone, page 16

If you've played World of Warcraft you'll know it's not the most restrained social arena (particularly if you're trying to annihilate Kaz'rogal in the Battle for Mount Hyjal) and the prospect of online altercations spilling over into the real world scared many people. […] Some respondents during the ensuing 2,000-page discussion on this topic dared to suggest that privacy wasn't really an issue, but they were forced to eat their words when a Blizzard employee, after revealing his real name in defence of the system, suddenly found his phone number, address, details of his parents, siblings and spouse, and even pictures of his childhood home posted online by Warcrafters trying to make a point.

2010 July 14, “Rhodri Marsden: Online anonymity lets us behave badly”, in The Independent, archived from the original on 2022-12-15

Thankfully Blizzard have realised that this expansion is likely to draw in some Warcrafters who left the cause years ago, and also a fair load of newbies.

2013 November 8, Matt Purslow, “World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor catapults all players to level 90, features Outland pre-fiery death”, in PCGamesN, archived from the original on 2013-11-10

As "Warcraft: The Beginning" hits theatres, Warcrafters here at CNET and GameSpot -- alongside the film's director, Duncan Jones -- share some of their favourite memories of the game.

2016 June 3, Richard Trenholm, “Memories of Warcraft: Fans including Duncan Jones remember their WoW experiences”, in CNET, archived from the original on 2022-12-15

Warcrafters can join guilds and engage in epic battles to overcome various challenges.

2022, David Seelow, quoting Gabor, Games as Transformative Experiences for Critical Thinking, Cultural Awareness, and Deep Learning: Strategies & Resources, CRC Press


VSRG

Spotco and Sputlil invented RoBeats, which is also known as VSRG.

2022 June 9, Benny Sagayarajan, “Funky Friday codes in Roblox: Free Emote and Points (June 2022)”, in Sportskeeda, archived from the original on 2022-06-18

(video games) Initialism of vertical-scrolling rhythm game.


walking skeleton

walking skeleton (plural walking skeletons)

Instead, think about how little you can do to create a walking skeleton of the product, and add more features as the features have value. Suppose you have a product with a variety of reports: sales by geography, kind of product,[…]

2017 October 18, Johanna Rothman, Create Your Successful Agile Project: Collaborate, Measure, Estimate, Deliver, Pragmatic Bookshelf

An example of engineering using the walking skeleton model is the Boston Dynamics walking dogs. The first thing that the engineers did for these robotic creatures was to create a power source and mobility framework.

2021 June 22, Adedeji B. Badiru, Lauralee Cromarty, Operational Excellence in the New Digital Era, CRC Press, page 55

software engineering
software engineering

(software engineering) An initial, bare-bones implementation of a system or application which provides only the basic core functionality, in order to be able to demonstrate a minimal working product to be further fleshed out later.


amogus

amogus (countable and uncountable, plural amoguses or amogi)

Etymology tree
Old English on
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Germanic *ga-
Proto-West Germanic *ga-
Old English ġe-
Old English mang
Old English ġemang
Old English onġemang
Old English amang
Middle English among
English among
Proto-Indo-European *n̥smé
Proto-Germanic *uns
Old English ūs
Middle English us
English us
English amogus
Corruption of Among Us, the name of a 2018 social deduction game developed by Innersloth. Popularized by memes around January 2021, in which a StoneToss comic is edited to say "amogus" in a humorous non sequitur.

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Can I get a ipad, and pillow that looks like Amogus and a Baby Alive. Love, Kyleigh […] For Christmas, I would like an Among Us plushy because I love Among Us. […] Love, Jaxton

2021 December 15, “Santa Letters”, in The Cadiz Record, volume 138, number 50, page S5

While the peak of Among Us memes has been comfortably left in 2021, there are still dark remnants of the past remaining in pop culture today. One has to look no further than a surprise "amogus" in LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga.

2022 April 13, Jamie Dunkin, “You can't escape 'Among Us' memes, even in 'LEGO Star Wars'”, in We Got This Covered

We reached out to Innersloth to hear the devs' thoughts on the popular amogus art template. Community director Victoria Tran sent over a brief comment.

2022 October 17, Austin Wood, “Among Us is now the best worst art tool, and the devs say it's "absolutely inspired"”, in GamesRadar+

For example, the Scholar’s Scavenge that spanned most of the first day sent randomised teams to the Siam Amazing Park to tick off a list of increasinbly bizarre ice-breaking prompts, including “film a singing duel between the best and worst singers”, “show a WSC staff member a wild amogus”, “Initiate a dinosaur-alpaca feud”, and many, many more.

2022 September 30, “Winning World Scholars at the Global Round!”, in Patana News, volume 25, number 7, Bangkok Patana School, page 4

(Internet slang) A crewmate or impostor character from the video game Among Us.

Among Us
Innersloth
Know Your Meme
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ASCIIbetically

The elements of the array are ordered ASCIIbetically.

Perl’s built-in sorting behavior is as though the elements were compared ASCIIbetically with the cmp operator: […]

1998, Joseph N. Hall, Randal L. Schwartz, Effective Perl Programming: Writing Better Programs with Perl, Addison Wesley, page 44

Then, the Help Compiler ASCIIbetically sorts each group according to its number (which can actually be any alphanumeric string, but for sanity’s sake you should stick to 4-digit numbers, incremented by tens, like 0010, 0020, etc.).

2003, Sean M[ichael] Burke, RTF Pocket Guide, O’Reilly & Associates, Inc., page 96

If you need to sort text ASCIIbetically, then you should seriously consider running your files through a script that enforces pure printable-ASCII content.

2016, Jules J. Berman, Data Simplification: Taming Information With Open Source Tools, Morgan Kaufmann, page 57

(computing, informal) In an ASCIIbetical way.


hypernote

In the notes at the end of the book I have therefore included the symbol ☞www☜ to indicate a more extensive note, a hypernote, which can be accessed on the Internet. The site to look for is www.righthandlefthand.com.

2002, I. C. McManus, Right Hand, Left Hand, page xvii

(Internet) An annotation provided in hypertext format.


long integer

(computing) An integer with a width (in bits) that is at least equal to that of a standard integer on the same machine (usually 32 or 64 bits).