pagejacking

(Internet) The use of deception to redirect a user's web browser from one web page to another.


spamouflage

This message generated enormous curiosity and speculation on the web. Recipients didn't know what to make of it. Was it a bizarre hoax or joke? A deviously sophisticated form of spamouflage designed to trick them into buying something?

2010, Alex Boese, Hippo Eats Dwarf, page 123

(Internet) Attempts to disguise spam as legitimate messages.


sentiment analysis

en-noun

sentiment analysis (countable and uncountable, plural sentiment analyses)

computational linguistics
computational linguistics

(computational linguistics, text analysis) The use of computers to process natural language in an attempt to identify and extract information about the writer's affective state.

tunneanalyysi

the analysis of text to identify subjective information about the writer


Netflix

en-verb

Netflix (third-person singular simple present Netflixes, present participle Netflixing, simple past and past participle Netflixed)

Netflixes (present singular third-person)
Netflixing (participle present)
Netflixed (participle past)
Netflixed (past)

From the company name Netflix, founded in 1997, probably from Net (“the Internet”) + flicks (“films, movies”).

compound

We started with Buffy, which had us completely sucked in by the time Xander's buddies ate Principle Flutie. Then, after Netflixing Buffy all the way to the end, we started on Angel.

2007, Lani Diane Rich, “Curse Your Sudden but Inevitable Betrayal”, in Jane Espenson, editor, Serenity Found: More Unauthorized Essays on Joss Whedon's Firefly Universe, BenBella Books, 108

I'm Netflixing the series now (for their fish-faced, airplane-launched Lunar Module shuttle, alas a bit beyond reality, even if you discount the airplane doing Harrier Jump Jet takeoffs as mere technological bravura).

2009 November 25, Jack Bohn, “Re: "UFO" movie to star Joshua Jackson”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet)

I was surprised to see Jeffrey Tambor in this movie, as I've only recently discovered him when I Netflixed Arrested Development and the Larry Sanders show.

2014 July 13, really real [username], “...And Justice for All (1979)”, in rec.arts.movies.past-films (Usenet)

(transitive, Internet, informal) To watch (a film or TV series) using the Internet streaming media provider Netflix.

netflixer

to watch (a film or TV series) using the Internet streaming media provider Netflix


webhook

From web + hook, coined by Jeff Lindsay in 2007 from the computer programming term hook.

Webhooks are the most widely used approach for solving the event delivery challenge (see section 1.2.3) and realizing events in combination with REST APIs.

2017, Matthias Biehl, Webhooks – Events for RESTful APIs, API-University Press, page 35

(Internet) A method of augmenting or altering the behavior of a web application or a web page using custom callbacks, usually triggered by some external event.


representational state transfer

en-noun

representational state transfer (usually uncountable, plural representational state transfers)

representational state transfers (plural)

Coined by American computer scientist Roy Fielding in 2000.

coin

software architecture
software architecture

(software architecture) A way of providing interoperability between computer systems on the Internet based on textual representations of Web resources and a predefined set of stateless operations.


SAA

(computing) Initialism of Systems Application Architecture (“an IBM technology”).


ifdef

A keyword in various programming languages, short for if defined.

(computing, programming) A construct in source code that allows another part of the code to run only if a specified identifier is defined in the program.


minidemo

Hi all! You have available another cool minidemo (or intro, as you prefer), with the usual ASM sources.

1993, Javier Arevalo Baeza, “New intro from VangeliSTeam”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet)

I promise to enter next time, if you keep the compo like it is now ;-) Or... why not alternating between a minigame compo and a minidemo comp ?

2002, Fabrice Frances, “2002 MiniGame Compo - download and vote!”, in comp.sys.oric (Usenet)

Fairlight once made a tiny minidemo where you were able to see a lot of extremely tiny rasterbars. They did it by DMA-ing some REUmemory to always the same address i.e. $d020 (background col register) at a specific rasterline (i.e. in the border).

2000, Alex Schuetz, “REU - what software uses one?”, in comp.sys.cbm (Usenet)


pointcast

en-verb

pointcast (third-person singular simple present pointcasts, present participle pointcasting, simple past and past participle pointcasted or pointcast)

pointcasts (present singular third-person)
pointcasting (participle present)
pointcasted (participle past)
pointcasted (past)
pointcast (participle past)
pointcast (past)

Google asserts that if the broadcast server can itself pointcast to receivers, then there is no need for receivers to filter broadcasts.

2015, Judge Rodney Gilstrap, Claim Construction Order, SimpleAir, Inc. v. Google Inc.

(Internet) To transmit targeted information to a single person


YASD

(video games, roguelikes, slang) The player's accidental death, caused by carelessness, in a roguelike video game.


textpost

While links, textposts, and videos were more often direct posts than reshares, there were still sizable portions of links and videos that were reshared content.

2012, Jennifer M. Young, "Political Conversations on Facebook: An Exploration of Practices", thesis submitted to George University, page 90

Conceptually, linguistically, Tumblr textpost discourse doesn't translate well to outside life - you don't, or at least didn't, win friends with Meyer-Briggs personality scores, Harry Potter headcanon, or soft grunge.

2014, Zoe Kilbourn, "PSA, UWU: Tumblr, Gender, and Gaga", Pelican (University of Western Australia), Volume 85, Edition 6, circa September 2014, page 9

She is looking for a way to delete Chatter Posts (only textposts), and she also wants to define a date (to delete all textposts created before this date).

2014, Rakesh Gupta, Learning Salesforce Visual Workflow, Packt Publishing, published 2015, page 74

A post on a social media platform consisting largely or entirely of text.


bitflag

(programming) A bit (binary digit) whose value acts as a flag to enable or disable some behaviour.


postpend

postpend (third-person singular simple present postpends, present participle postpending, simple past and past participle postpended)

postpends (present singular third-person)
postpending (participle present)
postpended (participle past)
postpended (past)

Recall that if asterisks are pre- and postpended they designate semantic information in f-structures.

In each run a random sequence is generated, prepended and postpended with short primers to separate the initiation and termination tasks from the reconstruction task.

2003, Algorithms in Bioinformatics, page 398

A hybrid attack is used to find passwords that are a dictionary word with combinations of characters prepended or postpended to it.

2011, Dave Kleiman, The Official CHFI Study Guide (Exam 312-49)

(computing, transitive) To append at the end of a text string.


partyplace

I just wanted to tell everyone of you who's going to ASM'94 by plane, that I *may* be able to take you from the airport to the partyplace.

1994, Torben Thellefsen, “Transport from Helsinki airport to ASM'94 partyplace!”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet)

BUT, we understand it can be hard for you to reach the partyplace, so you can compete also if you send your contributions by email!

1998, Andrea Bovo, “SPOLETIUM 98 Amiga Party”, in comp.sys.amiga.misc (Usenet)

Incidentally, there's no internet connection at the partyplace, and using dialup through a mobile phone at international rates probably isn't much fun, hence the lack of live updates.

2004, Matthew Westcott, “Forever 5 - are you there? participating?”, in comp.sys.sinclair (Usenet)

(demoscene) The venue where a demoparty is held.


adjacency matrix

en-noun

adjacency matrix (plural adjacency matrices or adjacency matrixes)

adjacency matrices (plural)
adjacency matrixes (plural)

(graph theory) A matrix showing which vertices of a graph are adjacent to which other vertices.


nontrusted

In such an environment, a participant site is classified as, trusted or nontrusted node.

1998, Recovery Mechanisms in Database Systems, page 395

Do not run nontrusted tools that you find on the subject system to collect evidence.

2013, Cameron H. Malin, Linux Malware Incident Response


audioboard

Just slide the daughtercard onto the audioboard connectors and plug the audio card into your computer.

(computing) A circuit board used for audio processing.


access violation

access violation (plural access violations)

muistialueen ylitys

access violation — see also segmentation fault


graphon

This bound almost matches the known upper bound for graphs and, in a certain sense, is the best possible for graphons.

2015, Jacob W. Cooper, Tomáš Kaiser, Daniel Kráľ, Jonathan A. Noel, “Weak regularity and finitely forcible graph limits”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)

(mathematics, graph theory) The completion of the metric space of the set of finite graphs endowed with the cut metric.


trackwheel

(computing) A small wheel, incorporated into a mouse or smartphone, that controls scrolling.


malformatted

SpamAssassin works by assigning scores to characteristics of suspected spam mail. These range from malformatted headers to the use of embedded code meant to identify the recipient.

(chiefly computing) Poorly or incorrectly formatted.


unfavourited

(computing) Alternative form of unfavorited (“not marked as a favourite”)


Roko's basilisk

Proposed as a transhumanist thought experiment in 2010 by user Roko on the LessWrong Internet discussion forum.
According to LessWrong, discussion of Roko's basilisk was banned from the forum for several years as part of a general policy against spreading potential information hazards. This in fact drew further attention to the topic, and other websites began sharing information about it.

2020, Griffin Kao, Jessica Hong, Michael Perusse, Weizhen Sheng, Turning Silicon into Gold, Springer (Apress), page 177,
Roko's Basilisk closely resembles traditional religious belief systems, merely replacing the role of God with a super-AI instead.

2021, Richard Heimann, Doing AI, BenBella Books (Matt Holt Books), page 137,
Roko's Basilisk is a thought experiment about the potential risks involved in developing so-called true artificial intelligence. The premise is that an all-powerful artificial super-intelligence could retroactively punish those who did not help bring about its existence. Roko's Basilisk resembles a futurist version of Pascal's Wager in that it suggests people should weigh the possible infinite gain and infinite punishment for accepting or rejecting the creation of artificial super-intelligence.

Roko's Basilisk has been described as the most terrifying thought experiment of all time, or as Slate’s David Auerbach subtitled his 2014 article: "Why Are Techno-futurists So Freaked Out by Roko's Basilisk?"

2023, James B. Miles, AI and the End of Humanity, Troubador Publishing (Matador), page 168

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

A hypothetical, otherwise benevolent artificial intelligence of the future that would have an incentive to torture anyone who, having imagined (or even heard about) said AI, had not helped bring about its existence; the thought experiment which posits its existence.


input method editor

input method editor (plural input method editors)

(computing) A program that facilitates the input of foreign scripts or exotic symbols on a computer or similar device.


metacomputation

metacomputation (countable and uncountable, plural metacomputations)

(computing theory) The transformation of computer programs based on their semantics.


ultrasparsifier

(graph theory) A form of sparsifier that makes a graph particularly sparse.


triangle-free

undirected graph
undirected graph#English

(graph theory) Of an undirected graph in which no three vertices form a triangle of edges.


rectagraph

Such graphs are known to be halved graphs of bipartite rectagraphs, which are connected triangle-free graphs in which every 2-path lies in a unique quadrangle.

2015, Joanna B. Fawcett, “Locally triangular graphs and normal quotients of the n-cube”, in arXiv

(graph theory) A triangle-free connected graph where any two vertices have 0 or 2 common neighbors.


isoradial

The critical surface for random-cluster model with cluster-weight q#x5C;ge 4 on isoradial graphs is identified using parafermionic observables.

2015, Vincent Beffara, Hugo Duminil-Copin, Stanislav Smirnov, “On the critical parameters of the q>4 random-cluster model on isoradial graphs”, in arXiv

(graph theory) Of a planar graph: where each face is inscribable in a circle of common radius.


web of trust

(cryptography) A decentralized cryptographic mechanism for establishing the authenticity of the binding between a public key and its owner.


multilicence

3 September) â€“ means the Guardian is now advocating stealing software rather than paying what can only be described as a very meagre multilicence upgrade fee.

2009 September 9, “Letters and blogs”, in Guardian

(computing) A licence to have the same software on multiple devices


subreddit

They wanted to give voice to their feeling, in one moderator’s words, that the company’s bosses ‘‘do not respect the work that is put in by the thousands of unpaid volunteers who maintain the communities of the 9,656 active subreddits,’’ as the individual forums are called.

2015 July 21, Adrian Chen, “When the Internet’s ‘Moderators’ Are Anything But”, in New York Times

We measure the similarity between entire subreddits both in terms of user similarity and topical similarity.

2015, Jack Hessel, Alexandra Schofield, Lillian Lee, David Mimno, “What do Democrats do in their Spare Time? Latent Interest Detection in Multi-Community Networks”, in arXiv

(Internet) Any of the subforums, generally intended for discussion of a specific topic, on the Reddit web site.


WhatsApp

Blend of what's up + app, coined as a trademark.

Like many people, in the pandemic, my life digitized. My work shifted online; my friendships retreated onto FaceTime and WhatsApp; I used a dating app for the first time; I started doing online yoga.

2022 September 27, Barclay Bram, “My Therapist, the Robot”, in The New York Times

An instant messaging service founded in 2009 and acquired by Facebook in 2014.


shapefile

Any shapefiles created during analysis will be created in decimal degrees.

(geography, computing) A computer file in the Shapefile format, used in geographic information systems.


blogspeak

Bloggers with a science background, like bloggers on most other topics, often demonstrate open scorn for the mainstream media (MSM in blogspeak).

2009 March 19, Geoff Brumfiel, “Science journalism: Supplanting the old media?”, in Nature, volume 458, number 7236, →DOI, page 276

(informal, blogging) The variety of language used in blogs.


BCNF

Boyce-Codd normal form
Boyce-Codd normal form#English

(databases) Initialism of Boyce-Codd normal form.


megahack

The megahack is widely considered to have been initiated by North Korea, upset at the portrayal of Kim Jong-un in Sony’s then-imminent comedy The Interview.

2015 July 10, Graeme Virtue, “Friday’s best TV”, in The Guardian

(computing) A massive hack of a computer system.


kiloword

(computing) A unit of storage capacity, equal to 1024 words.


surjunctive group

surjunctive group (plural surjunctive groups)

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

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

cellular automaton
cellular automaton#English

(mathematics) A group such that every injective cellular automaton with the group elements as its cells is also surjective.


burstiness

burstiness (countable and uncountable, plural burstinesses)

In each case, the process presents complex dynamic patterns including temporal correlations, burstiness, and all other types of nonstationarity.

2015 July 11, “Local Variation of Hashtag Spike Trains and Popularity in Twitter”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

(computer science) The degree to which something occurs in abrupt bursts


Dark Web

“Silk Road” was an underground website active on the Dark Web.

(Internet) The portion of the Deep Web hosted on darknets (“restricted networks”).


Sybil attack

Named from Sybil, a book about a woman diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder; suggested by Brian Zill at Microsoft Research.

If the signal rate from the claimed identity and the actual node differs, it can be considered as a Sybil attack. The successful prevention of Sybil attack increases the stability of the network.

2022, Peter Augustine, Pethuru Raj, Sathyan Munirathinam, editors, Enterprise Digital Transformation: Technology, Tools, and Use Cases, CRC Press, page 180

(computer security) An attack that subverts a reputation system by forging a large number of identities in peer-to-peer networks.


killbit

From kill + bit; see bit (“binary digit”), i.e. an on/off setting.

It is time for Adobe to announce the end-of-life date for Flash and to ask the browsers to set killbits on the same day.

2015 July 14, Samuel Gibbs, “Facebook calls for end to Flash as Firefox blocks it over hacking holes”, in The Guardian

(computing) A setting that disables a specific web browser plug-in, typically to prevent a security vulnerability from being exploited.


macrosimulation

The macrosimulation model employed has been used previously to undertake similar analyses for the UK [26 ,37 –39 ], Ireland [40 ], France [41 ] and Canada [42 ], and the relative risks to parameterise changes in nutritional risk factors and mortality as a result of changes in diet were sourced from high quality meta-analyses [29 –36 ].

2015 July 9, “Effects of Health-Related Food Taxes and Subsidies on Mortality from Diet-Related Disease in New Zealand: An Econometric-Epidemiologic Modelling Study”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

(mathematics, computing) simulation of a system as a whole, without simulating the behaviour of its individual components


webtool

We took advantage of our large amount of data and on machine learning to set-up a fast webtool combining all existing taxonomies including the newly proposed consensual “expert” one.

2015 July 9, “Genomics and Machine Learning for Taxonomy Consensus: The Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex Paradigm”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

(computing, Internet) Any software tool that operates over the Internet


friend-to-friend

(computing) Describing a restricted type of peer-to-peer network in which only persons who know each other participate.


Grosch's law

Attributed to computer scientist Herb Grosch in 1965, though previously stated by Seymour Cray.

(computing) The observation that computing power increases as the square of the cost, e.g. a computer that costs twice as much ought to be four times as fast.


hyperdata

From hyper- + data; compare hypertext, hypermedia.

The appointment is a something of a coup for the start-up, one of those in the vanguard of the so-called hyperdata movement that collects scores of data points by harnessing new technology like smartphones and sophisticated analytics software.

2015 July 15, Michael J. De La Merced, “Lawrence Summers to Join Board of ‘Hyperdata’ Start-Up”, in New York Times

(computing) interconnected data, sometimes with semantics attached to the links between items


featurization

featurization (countable and uncountable, plural featurizations)

From feature + -ization or featurize + -ation.

(linguistics, computing) The development of additional features.


happy path

The use case template is initially used to define the primary pathway, called the happy path, or, more formally, the Basic Course of Events (BCOE). The happy path, or as one of my seminar attendees called it, the “sunny-day path,” is the most commonly occurring pathway through the use case. It is usually one that depicts the perfect world, in which nothing goes wrong.

2000, Paul R. Reed, Developing Applications with Visual Basic and UML, Addison-Wesley Professional, page 68

A common mistake made in all forms of testing is only performing happy path testing. This is especially common if you're writing tests for code you recently authored. Happy path testing is when you carefully establish all of the preconditions for the code you're testing and then only provide valid inputs to it.

2014, Peter J. Jones, Effective Ruby: 48 Specific Ways to Write Better Ruby, Addison-Wesley Professional, page 158

software engineering
software engineering

(software engineering) A default scenario in which no exceptional or error conditions arise.


Eternal September

Before the Internet became mainstream in the mid-1990s, Usenet was largely restricted to colleges and universities, meaning that September (the start of the academic year) represented the largest annual influx of new users. Around 1993, commercial ISPs began offering Usenet access to their userbases, leading to a large amount of new posters with little idea of netiquette joining year-round. From the perspective of experienced Usenet users, the influx of new users in September 1993 never ended.

1994 February 9, John William Chambless, “The Eternal September”, in alt.flame (Usenet):

I've only been here since the start of the Eternal September, but I was on at the beginning of that whole mess with the Highs.

1994 April 17, Ziegler, “HERO: Star Wars in 1995”, in rec.arts.comics.misc (Usenet)

"September 1993 will go down in net history as the September that never ended," Dave Fischer wrote on the world's most popular social network at the time. That post spawned the idea of the "Eternal September," a phenomenon that happens when an internet community is forced to deal with a neverending influx of new people.

2015 September 30, Jason Koebler, “It's September, Forever”, in Vice

(Internet slang, historical) A period beginning around 1993, in which large amounts of new users were joining Usenet.


input method

(computing) A set of mnemonics for inputting a foreign script or exotic symbols not found on a physical keyboard.

입력 방법

(computing) By extension, a program that facilitates input using these mnemonics.

輸入法

program that facilitates the input of foreign scripts

入力システム (nyūryoku shisutemu, literally “input system”)

入力 (nyūryoku, literally “input”) (used in the names of such programs)


Useneter

Well, thanks to a USEneter's comment, I verified that these 2 DAs do NOT work with Finder 4.1, but DO operate once you are in an application run from that Finder.

1985 June 21, Jeff Harrow, “Scientific/Financial Calculator Desk Accessories...”, in net.micro.mac (Usenet)


IIST

(software, testing) Initialism of International Institute for Software Testing.


software life cycle

software life cycle (plural software life cycles)

software lifecycle
software lifecycle#English

(development, software) Alternative form of software lifecycle


software lifecycle

software lifecycle (plural software lifecycles)

(development, software) Ellipsis of software development lifecycle..


pancyclic

(graph theory, of a graph) Containing cycless of every possible length (from 3 to the order of the graph).


MCU

memory controller unit
memory controller unit#English

(computing) Initialism of memory controller unit.


priv

Do you have admin privs on the server?

(chiefly computing, informal, usually in the plural) Clipping of privilege.


sudoer

sudo + -er. From sudo (“superuser do, substitute user do”), the name of a command that runs programs as another user.

(computing, Unix) A user who is permitted to run programs with the security privileges of another user without explicitly specifying a password.


introspectability

This shows, I think, that sensitivity to the argument from soft introspectability is an untenable halfway house; we must accept strict introspectability or nothing.

2000, Roger Teichmann, Logic, Cause and Action, page 93

Besides the open question of the full introspectability of arbitrary application code, there is another mental obstacle: conventional programmers consider that dynamic symbolic models are mere gadget applications, “too slow and not professional" but this situation could change with the maturity of web-based scripting (like wikis, active technology, ...).

2006, Jonathan Gratch, Intelligent Virtual Agents: 6th International Conference, IVA, page 155

It includes subfactors such as introspectability, controlability, and notifiability of the Web service and of the platform, measured by both taking into account the possibility that these sub-factors can be achieved and whether they are actually achieved.

2010, M. Papazoglou, Klaus Pohl, Michael Parkin, Service Research Challenges and Solutions for the Future Internet, page 162

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

The quality of being subject to introspection.

(programming, object-oriented programming) The quality of supporting type introspection.


nasal demon

From a 1992 post on the Usenet newsgroup comp.std.c; see http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/N/nasal-demons.html.

(programming, slang, humorous, mostly plural) Unexpected behavior of a compiled program as a result of source code that employs an undefined construct.


microbitcoin

A millionth of a bitcoin, or 0.000001 BTC, equivalent to 100 satoshi.


millibitcoin

The current minimum transaction fee is fixed at 0.0001 bitcoin or a tenth of a millibitcoin per kilobyte, recently decreased from one millibitcoin.

2014, Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Mastering Bitcoin: Unlocking Digital Cryptocurrencies

A thousandth of a bitcoin or 0.001 BTC, equivalent to 1,000 bits or 100,000 satoshi.


microservice

We concluded that microservices is not a one-fit-all solution as it introduces new complexities to the system, and many factors, such as distribution complexities, should be considered before adopting this style.

2015, Armin Balalaie, Abbas Heydarnoori, Pooyan Jamshidi, “Migrating to Cloud-Native Architectures Using Microservices: An Experience Report”, in arXiv

(computing) A small independent process that communicates with other processes, used to break down a complex task into many simpler components.


upcode

Upcode includes the mental codes that shape human thought and behavior from within and the cultural codes that operate on us, often invisibly, from without: personal morality, religious rituals, social norms, legal rules, corporate policies, professional ethics, website terms of service. Downcode is run by computers, upcode by humans.

2023, Scott J. Shapiro, Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks, pages 12-13

(computing) The behavioral norms which influence how software (or "downcode") is produced.


monoliteral

(cryptography) That uses a single letter as a cipher


ecoinformatics

Although there are difficult challenges associated with building these integrated datasets, these same challenges provide substantial opportunities, especially for early-career ecologists, for interdisciplinary training in ecoinformatics and database management, and classical ecology; thus pushing the ecological boundary to answer important macrosystems ecology questions.

2015 July 1, Patricia A. Soranno et al., “Building a multi-scaled geospatial temporal ecology database from disparate data sources: fostering open science and data reuse”, in GigaScience, volume 4, →DOI

(ecology, computing) The use of computing and information science in ecology


printer-friendly

en-adj

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

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

a printer-friendly version of a Web page

(computing, of a document or layout) Suitable for printing, without any extraneous formatting, images, etc.


prewarm

en-verb

prewarm (third-person singular simple present prewarms, present participle prewarming, simple past and past participle prewarmed)

prewarms (present singular third-person)
prewarming (participle present)
prewarmed (participle past)
prewarmed (past)

(computer graphics, of a particle system) To initialize with the illusion of prior activity.


screenland

At times, different symbolic modes were intertwined. Labbo used the metaphor of "screenland" to describe the context of the children's actions with the computer. She identified three different stances: playing in screenland, art in screenland, and writing in screenland.

2000, Maureen Patricia Carroll, Whitecaps on the Keyboard, page 20

Cyberspace, as accessed through a computer screen.


NeXTSTEP

(computing) An object-oriented, multitasking operating system developed by NeXT Computer in the late 1980s and early 1990s, based on UNIX.


salami attack

Referring to the thin slices in which salami is usually served.

(computing) An attack against a system that consists of many minor actions (such as stealing small amounts of funds from multiple bank accounts) and is thus relatively difficult to detect.


supercompiler

(computing) A program that performs supercompilation.


PETSCII

Why is the order of graphical characters in the PETSCII table so seemingly haphazard? The answer is that arrangement was dictated by the PET keyboard design, a hardware-driven decision.

2014, Nick Montfort et al., 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10, MIT Press, page 225

(computing, historical) The character set used by the Commodore PET and related computers.


linting

en-noun

linting (usually uncountable, plural lintings)

(computing, programming) The process of using a software tool to analyse source code and identify possible programming problems.


OpenXPS

Open XML Paper Specification
w:Open XML Paper Specification

(computing) Abbreviation of Open XML Paper Specification.


OPC UA

(communication, programming) Abbreviation of OPC Unified Architecture (an industrial M2M communication protocol for interoperability developed by the OPC Foundation)


(computing) Abbreviation of machine to machine (technologies that allow both wireless and wired systems to communicate with other devices of the same type.)


(computing) Eclipse' implementation of the OMG QVT standard.


DCOM

(computing) Initialism of Distributed Component Object Model.


PCI DSS

(computing, initialism, payment) Initialism of Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (a proprietary information security standard for organizations that handle branded credit cards from the major card schemes)


ASVS

(computing, initialism, security) Initialism of Application Security Verification Standard (a standard to performing application-level security verifications.)


OPC DA

(communication, programming) Initialism of OPC Data Access (first of a group of specifications known as the Classic OPC Specifications.)


OPC HDA

(communication, programming) Initialism of OPC Historical Data Access (group of standards of the OPC Foundation that provides COM specifications for communicating data from devices, like databases, and applications that provide historical data.)


OPC AE

(communication, programming) Initialism of OPC Alarms & Events (an OPC Specification for alarms and events.)


MQTT

(programming) Initialism of Message Queueing Telemetry Transport (a lightweight publish-subscribe messaging protocol used on top of the TCP/IP protocol.)


MQTT-SN

(programming) Initialism of MQ Telemetry Transport for Sensor Networks (a variation of the MQTT protocol for embedded devices on non-TCP/IP networks.)


dismantlability

(chiefly graph theory) The quality of being dismantlable.


block length

(computing) The length (in bytes, characters, etc.) of a block of data.


dismantlable

We show that the independence complex of a chordal graph is contractible if and only if this complex is dismantlable (strong collapsible) and it is homotopy equivalent to a sphere if and only if its core is a cross-polytopal sphere.

2015, Michal Adamaszek, “A note on independence complexes of chordal graphs and dismantling”, in arXiv

(graph theory) The property of a graph such that its vertices can be listed in an order such that, for every vertex, the vertex is a subdominant vertex (has an adjacent vertex that is adjacent to every other vertex that it is adjacent to) in the induced subgraph generated by that vertex and all subsequent vertices.


stringology

From string + -ology, coined in 1984 by computer scientist Zvi Galil.

(computing, informal) The study of algorithms and data structures used for processing text strings.


metaclassifier

Several classifiers are tested on the extracted features, the best method being metaclassifier bootstrap aggregating (Bagging) based on alternating decision trees (ADTree).

2015 July 21, Diego Alvarez-Estevez, Vicente Moret-Bonillo, “Computer-Assisted Diagnosis of the Sleep Apnea-Hypopnea Syndrome: A Review”, in Sleep Disorders, volume 2015, →DOI

(computing) A classifier that operates on other classifiers.


hamburger button

hamburger button (plural hamburger buttons)

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface, mobile telephony) A button displaying the hamburger icon (three parallel horizontal lines: ≡), used to activate a dropdown menu.


hamburger menu

(graphical user interface, mobile telephony) A dropdown menu whose presence is indicated by a hamburger icon (i.e. the triple bar ≡).


hamburger icon

The three lines suggest a stylised hamburger, i.e. a layer of meat between two layers of bread.

(graphical user interface, mobile telephony) A symbol consisting of three parallel horizontal lines (i.e. the triple bar ≡), used to indicate a dropdown menu.


twin-stick

(video games) Controlled by two joysticks simultaneously, usually one moving the player character and the other firing a weapon directionally.


unmunged

This is theoretical for me, since I've posted with an unmunged address on mailing lists and newsgroups for many years, and as a result get a couple of dozen spam messages a day.

2002, Alan Winston, OpenVMS with Apache, WASD, and OSU: The Nonstop Webserver


monoprogramming

(computing) Running a single program at a time within a single address space


alternate action

(computing) A feature of certain computer keyboards where a pressed key remains depressed and actuated until it is pressed again.


wormable

en-adj

wormable (comparative more wormable, superlative most wormable)

more wormable (comparative)
most wormable (superlative)

Operating system vendors react quickly to wormable exploits, typically releasing out-of-sequence patches, because of the scale of the damage they can do.

2020, Ross Anderson, Security Engineering, page 232

(computing) (of a computer flaw or a bug) Capable of being turned into a network worm.


PCG

procedural content generation
procedural content generation#English

(video games) Abbreviation of procedural content generation.


butterfly keyboard

en-noun

butterfly keyboard (plural butterfly keyboards)

* (keyboard with separate halves): From the resemblance to a butterfly with outstretched wings.
* (keyboard with scissor switches): From the approximately resemblance of each (X-shaped) switch to a butterfly.

(computing) A kind of computer keyboard consisting of two separate halves, intended to facilitate typing with two hands.

(computing) A kind of computer keyboard where each key is activated by means of a scissor switch.


VIB

(software) Initialism of Virtual Instrumentation Bean.


https

(Internet, in addresses) Alternative letter-case form of HTTPS


postamble

Modelled on preamble, with post- replacing pre-.

(computing) Closing statements of a computer program; final or closing part of data.


wiktionary

However, with the increase in free resources like wiktionaries, or the increase in the number of translated materials available on the Internet

2011, Zygmunt Vetulani, Human Language Technology. Challenges for Computer Science

PanLex draws on various lexical resources, including dictionaries, wiktionaries, glossaries, lexicons, word lists, terminologies, thesauri, wordnets, ontologies, vocabulary databases, namedentity resources, and standards

2011, Nikolas Coupland, The Handbook of Language and Globalization

This lower bound is logically determined – a wiktionary with fewer entries could never provide a full IDS list – and not meant to be realistic. We do not know how big a wiktionary has to be in order to provide, say, 75% of an IDS list, but it is likely that several thousands of entries are required for this.

2013, Lars Borin, Anju Saxena, Approaches to Measuring Linguistic Differences, page 297

Any online lexicon resembling Wiktionary.


blogspam

(Internet) promotional material posted to a weblog, often one specifically created for the purpose


subtournament

(graph theory) A tournament that forms part of another tournament.


retweetability

Nevertheless, few studies found that retweetability is positively associated with the number of followers, number of followees, the age of the account, and those users belonging to several groups who act as brokers.

2015 August 20, “Testing Propositions Derived from Twitter Studies: Generalization and Replication in Computational Social Science”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

The quality or degree of being retweetable.


retweetable

en-adj

retweetable (comparative more retweetable, superlative most retweetable)

more retweetable (comparative)
most retweetable (superlative)

The most retweetable word in my data set was the word you. Twitter users want to hear you talk about them, not yourself.

2014, Neal Schaffer, Lon Safko, Jeff Korhan, Social Marketing Digital Book Set


pixeler

You can always find musicians. There are more trackers than coders, pixelers, organizers, couriers, and designers combined.

1999, Adrian Dunn, “Re: Using a scanned picture in your demo”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet)

(computing, slang, rare) A graphic artist who works at the pixel level.


human interface device

en-noun

human interface device (plural human interface devices)

(computing) Any hardware device allowing a user to interact with a computer, such as a keyboard or mouse.


long long

(computing, programming) A kind of integer variable, allowing a greater range of possible values than a long.


necro-bump

en-verb

necro-bump (third-person singular simple present necro-bumps, present participle necro-bumping, simple past and past participle necro-bumped)

necro-bumps (present singular third-person)
necro-bumping (participle present)
necro-bumped (participle past)
necro-bumped (past)

(Internet, transitive) To add a new message to a long-dormant conversation.


treap

(computer science) A type of randomized binary search tree where nodes are labelled with randomly chosen priority values and which is simultaneously a heap on those priorities


zero day

(computing) Alternative spelling of zero-day


AJDT

(computing) Initialism of AspectJ Development Tools.


Gamergate

/ˈɡeɪməɹˌɡeɪt/

A campaign that started in 2014 and happened primarily online, which centered around sexism and anti-progressivism in video game culture and took the form of a harassment campaign against women in the video game industry.


NKRO

(computing) Initialism of n-key rollover: a keyboard feature that prevents ghosting and blocking.


overtravel

(computing) The distance a pressed switch on a keyboard continues to move after its actuation.


Numpad

Use NumPad (0-9) for better control. [written on a sign at the beginning of the game]

(computing) Abbreviation of numeric keypad.


tenkeyless

(computing, of a keyboard) Lacking a numeric keypad.


From retro- + bright with 0 for o as in leetspeak. See retrocomputing.

Keep me busy this weekend! In between blowing power supplies and running all my cases through a bath of retr0bright! Hah!

2009 April 15, capknight, “Re: Apple Power Supply Questions”, in comp.sys.apple2 (Usenet)

retr0bright works well but the plastic does indeed need to be ABS.

2012 March 9, JC, “Re: Cleaning my routed STTNG - how to restore the ships?”, in rec.games.pinball (Usenet)

If you want to try this method, you can find Retr0bright recipes and instructions online.

2020, Greg Farrell, Game Boy Modding: A Beginner's Guide to Game Boy Mods, Collecting, History, and More!, page 51

(computing) A chemical mixture, mainly hydrogen peroxide, used to remove yellowing from ABS plastic computer and electronics cases.


Retr0bright (third-person singular simple present Retr0brights, present participle Retr0brighting, simple past and past participle Retr0brighted)

These are four different machines I've been restoring over time (cleaning, retrobrighting all the cases, new capacitors on cards and motherboards […]

2009 October 13, atfphot...@gmail.com, “Re: What's in your Apple?”, in comp.sys.apple2 (Usenet)

This IIc is cleaning up really nice. Going to Retrobright it soon!

2017 June 28, cb meeks, “Re: Yet another IIc in my collection”, in comp.sys.apple2 (Usenet)

Do you need to retrobright your machine if it has some yellowing?

2021, Jamie Lendino, Faster Than Light: The Atari ST and the 16-Bit Revolution, page 270

(computing) To remove yellowing from ABS plastic computer or electronics cases via this method.


scorestreak

From score + streak; compare earlier killstreak.

Those who prioritise scorestreaks are using Nomad’s Rejack ability, which provides a death-defying injection of nanoparticle serum: if an opponent manages to kill you, you can bring yourself back from the dead and continue your current streak.

2015 August 26, “Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 – five things we learned from the beta test”, in The Guardian

(video games) An unbroken streak (continuous series) of scoring, acquired without one's player character being killed.


cryptoviral

(cryptography, computer security) related to a cryptovirus


cryptoviral extortion

(cryptography, computer security, Internet) A data kidnapping attack studied in the field of cryptovirology, in which malware encrypts user data and asks for payment in exchange for the decryption key.


paravirtual

Compared to the best-known paravirtualization interfaces, our paravirtual interface supports up to 2x higher throughput, and is closer in performance to device passthrough.

2015, Piyus Kedia, Sorav Bansal, “A Software-only Mechanism for Device Passthrough and Sharing”, in arXiv

(computing) approximately virtual (in terms of paravirtualization)


WUXGA

(computer graphics) Initialism of widescreen ultra-extended graphics array: a display resolution of 1920 × 1200 pixels with a 16:10 aspect ratio.


UAF

(programming) Initialism of use after free: a class of software vulnerability where memory is erroneously used again after being deallocated.


cryptovirus

From crypto- (prefix meaning ‘cryptographic’) + virus.

prefix

/ˈkɹɪptəʊˌvaɪɹəs/

(computer security) A type of malware that is used for extortion by encrypting user files and asking for payment in exchange for the decryption key.


dmg

(roleplaying games, video games) Abbreviation of damage.


MMORTS

real-time strategy
real-time strategy#English

(video games) Initialism of massively multiplayer online real-time strategy.


TP

en-noun

TP (countable and uncountable, plural TPs)

(networking) Initialism of termination point.


TP

en-verb

TP (third-person singular simple present TPs, present participle TPing, simple past and past participle TPed)

TPs (present singular third-person)
TPing (participle present)
TPed (participle past)
TPed (past)

... was down by the ocean, collecting the gravel you said you needed for your experiments, and Otto and Emma TPed right to me. ... Two Endermen walked past, and one of them spotted Mr. Anarchy and shrieked as it teleported toward him.

2016 June 21, Winter Morgan, Terror on a Treasure Hunt: An Unofficial Minetrapped Adventure, #3, Simon and Schuster

'Coffeegirl29' had TPed away from the stone circle to embark upon a similar task. “IM me when you've denoobified yourself,” ... I decided the first trip would be observation only; I put on the Zaara suit and teleported Masculamity over.

(Can we date this quote?), Huckleberry Hax, AFK, All of it, Lulu.com, page 364


rubber ducking

Rubber duck debugging
rubber duck debugging


autosuggest

Alternatively, an Amazon-like interface filters the list of molecules by specifying type (Nuclear receptor, coregulator, ligand) or by typing GO Terms or Diseases in autosuggest text boxes.

2015 September 2, “Nuclear Receptor Signaling Atlas: Opening Access to the Biology of Nuclear Receptor Signaling Pathways”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

(computing) Any feature that makes automatic suggestions to the user.


autosuggest

autosuggest (third-person singular simple present autosuggests, present participle autosuggesting, simple past and past participle autosuggested)

autosuggests (present singular third-person)
autosuggesting (participle present)
autosuggested (participle past)
autosuggested (past)

I typed "xary" and the spell checker autosuggested "X-ray".

(computing, transitive) To suggest automatically.


destring

destring (third-person singular simple present destrings, present participle destringing, simple past and past participle destringed)

destrings (present singular third-person)
destringing (participle present)
destringed (participle past)
destringed (past)

I require some help with destringing my variables.

(computing, transitive) to convert a variable that is of a string type to some other, usually numeric data type


zettaflop

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

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

(computing) 10²¹ floating-point operations per second.


unspammed

en-adj

unspammed (comparative more unspammed, superlative most unspammed)

more unspammed (comparative)
most unspammed (superlative)

My mailbox has remained unspammed for years thanks to antispam filters.


ignore all rules

(chiefly Wikimedia jargon) It is acceptable to break rules in situations where it is beneficial not to follow them.


self-elevation

en-noun

self-elevation (countable and uncountable, plural self-elevations)

User self-elevation occurs when mobile, remote, or power users need to run software that is usually run by only users with administrator-level permissions.

(computing) elevation of one's own user privilege level (usually to run software that requires a higher privilege level)


autoclassification

In the current era of large surveys and massive data sets, autoclassification of astrophysical sources using intelligent algorithms is becoming increasingly important.

2015, Sean A. Farrell, Tara Murphy, Kitty K. Lo, “Autoclassification of the Variable 3XMM Sources Using the Random Forest Machine Learning Algorithm”, in arXiv


cp

cp437, cp737, cp1253, etc.


adblocker

From ad (“short for advert or advertisement”) + blocker.

compound

(Internet) A piece of software that removes advertising elements from a web page.

adblocker

mainostenesto (informally "ad-blocker", properly "ad-blocking")


neknomination

From neck (“to drink very quickly”) + nomination. Originated in Australia and gained popularity on social media.

The controversial Neknomination craze has reportedly led to the death of another young British man, after a rugby player mixed two pints of gin with teabags and said to the camera: “This is how you drink.”

2014 February 16, Adam Withnall, “Neknomination: Craze 'claims fifth victim' as young man found dead after downing two pints of gin”, in Belfast Telegraph

Ontario Provincial Police laid charges against two young men on Thursday after a ‘neknomination’ video surfaced on social media.

2014 February 27, Paul Clarke, “OPP charge two youth after neknomination video surfaces”, in Toronto Star

She has lipstick on her chin, a ladder in her tights and looks as though she's spent the afternoon creating Neknomination videos.

2015, Jane Costello, The Love Shack, Simon & Schuster (2015), unnumbered pages, published 23 April 2015

(slang) An online drinking game, typically involving a person uploading a video of themselves drinking a pint of an alcoholic beverage (most commonly beer) in one gulp, then nominating two or more others to do the same.


minibatch

Attested since 1993, mini- + batch. Quickly displaced original term "blockupdate" coined by Martin Møller in 1992.

Interestingly, unlike the vanilla SGD algorithm, the stochastic normalized gradient descent algorithm provably requires a minimal minibatch size.

2015, Elad Hazan, Kfir Y. Levy, Shai Shalev-Shwartz, “Beyond Convexity: Stochastic Quasi-Convex Optimization”, in arXiv

(machine learning) A batch less than one epoch


match-merge

en-verb

match-merge (third-person singular simple present match-merges, present participle match-merging, simple past and past participle match-merged)

match-merges (present singular third-person)
match-merging (participle present)
match-merged (participle past)
match-merged (past)

When you want to match-merge several data sets and the data sets do not all match by the same variables […]

2012, Michele M. Burlew, SAS Hash Object Programming Made Easy

The lists are match-merged, so if you are on both lists, you are not twice as likely to be chosen.

(programming) To merge sets of objects while excluding duplicates.


Simmer

(slang, video games) A fan of the video game series The Sims.


pivot table

Introduced by Microsoft in 1994 as "PivotTable" (though the concept was older); their trademark was active until 2020.

(computing) A summary table used for automatic sorting, counting and averaging of the data in another table or spreadsheet.


Steiner tree

(graph theory) The minimum-weight connected subgraph of a graph that includes all the vertices of that graph.


AOE

(video games, board games) Initialism of area of effect (of an attack spell, etc.)

(by metonymy, video games, board games) A weapon, item or ability that affects an area or multiple entities instead of one target.


Xoogler

Older Googlers with families tend to like it less, because "everybody, even young mums, works seven days a week." Another Xoogler, who held a senior position, says that by trying to create a "Utopia" of untrammelled creativity, Google ended up with "dystopia".

2007, The Economist, volume 384, page 58

As a search marketer, Xoogler (ex-Googler), and now web consultant, I have seen both sides of the “Google fence,” and that has been fascinating.

2012, Brian Clifton, Advanced Web Metrics with Google Analytics, page 205

(informal) A former employee of the Google corporation.


chatgroup

electronic discourse The kind of language used in computer-mediated communication, especially as found in dialogue situations such as email, chatgroups, or texting exchanges.

2008, David Crystal, Txtng: The Gr8 Db8, page iii

(Internet) An online community allowing users to take part in text-based conversations.


exotype

(programming) A type (of object) that is defined programmatically at runtime based on external data.


BIXen

Humorous modern use of -en from Middle English; compare VAXen.

The same thoughts go for BIXen. That used to be quite possibly the best place in the world to hang out.

2014, Bruce Hoult, “Re: Mill CPU public talk 6:00 to 8:30PM September 22 at NNUG, Oslo, Norway”, in comp.arch (Usenet)

Some BIXen, as we call ourselves, wonder where we will go. We are the virtual dispossessed, cybernetic nomads on the cusp of searching for a niche for ourselves.

2000, Kevin J. Cheek, “[PLAQUE]: BIX - Byte Information Exchange [LONG]”, in alt.callahans (Usenet)

(computing, slang) Users of the Byte Information Exchange (BIX) system, which ran from the mid-1980s until 2001.


honeyword

In this paper we have proposed a new honeyword generation approach, identified as Paired Distance Protocol (PDP) which overcomes almost all the drawbacks of previously proposed honeyword generation approaches.

2015, Nilesh Chakraborty, Samrat Mondal, “A New Storage Optimized Honeyword Generation Approach for Enhancing Security and Usability”, in arXiv

(computing) An incorrect password published as part of a honeypot, so that any user attempting to log in with the password may be assumed to be an attacker.


supertile

But the only landscape that would ever move would be water — if you can call it landscape. No other land really moves except in geologic time. In order for moving landscape to work, you'll need supertiles, and lots of them.

1999, Mickey Kawick, Real-Time Strategy Game Programming Using Direct 6.0, page 478

Alternatively, you can make "supertiles" that have more than 1 hex/rectangle each to get grouping. 4-6 areas per supertile is probably O.K. Not all areas on supertile need to be the same, but theer should not be more than two different terrains on a supertile.

2001, Torben Ægidius Mogensen, “Board building - Hex tiles - the only way to go?”, in rec.games.design (Usenet)

(computer graphics) A group of connected tiles that can be placed, like a single tile, in a generated landscape.


Noogler

TEMs can view the resume and interview scores of a Noogler and place a "bid" on the allocation. In heavy hiring seasons, there are generally multiple candidates to be allocated to multiple projects. Competing bids are the norm […]

2012, James A. Whittaker, Jason Arbon, Jeff Carollo, How Google Tests Software, page 190

As an experiment, we added a fifteen-minute segment to Noogler orientation for some people that explained the benefits of being proactive, provided five specific actions Nooglers could take to find the things they needed, and reiterated how this behavior fits with Google’s entrepreneurial mindset:[…]

2015, Laszlo Bock, Work Rules!, Twelve, page 298

(informal) A new employee of the Google corporation.


EPL

(software) Initialism of Eclipse Public License.


downtrace

B2 processing occurs when the subtree is in the downtrace of an attribute in X.

1971, Jack Minker, Proceedingsof the Symposium on Information Storage and Retrieval, page 141

The query algorithm mainly includes uptrace and downtrace methods.

2003, J Wu, Q Ding, “ATRAM-An Analysis Tool of Requirement and Architecture Management”, in Systems, Man and Cybernetics

ΞA and ΞB are two downtraces […] from the two graphs. (Ξ_A ∩ Ξ_B) is the intersection between the two downtraces.

2010, Dirk Ifenthaler, Pablo Pirnay-Dummer, Norbert M. Seel, Computer-Based Diagnostics and Systematic Analysis of Knowledge

For every single trace there is a downtrace with each individual degree being between 2 < |fif| < |v|, such that all possible combinations beneath the previously entailed degrees are generated by the function Ξ.

2010, Pablo Pirnay-Dummer, “Complete structure comparison”, in Computer-based diagnostics and systematic analysis of knowledge

(computer science) The subtree of a tree structure that is determined by an attribute of a parent node.


Lispish

en-adj

Lispish (comparative more Lispish, superlative most Lispish)

more Lispish (comparative)
most Lispish (superlative)

programming language
programming language

(programming, informal) Characteristic or reminiscent of the Lisp programming language.


bamf

Used as a teleportation sound effect in X-Men comics. Presumably imitative; compare bam, poof, etc.

(Internet) Signalling a user's disappearance from a discussion, chat room, etc.


Pythonic

Pythonic (comparative more Pythonic, superlative most Pythonic)

more Pythonic (comparative)
most Pythonic (superlative)

The Pythonic style isn't regimented or enforced by the compiler. It has emerged over time through experience using the language and working with others.

2015 February 12, Brett Slatkin, Effective Python, Addison-Wesley Professional, page 1

Pythonic code—when you first hear of it, you might think it is a programming paradigm, similar to object-oriented or functional programming. While some of it could be considered as such, it is actually more of a design philosophy.

2016 August 31, Fabrizio Romano, Dusty Phillips, Rick van Hattem, Python: Journey from Novice to Expert, Packt Publishing Ltd, page 850

(programming) Using the idioms of the Python programming language.


hyperloop

If Hal finds a value of x such that fun(x), Hal sends a signal to Dave (perhaps a light-beam). Dave carries a receiving device with him, which stores a variable, xFound, initialised to a default value of 0; this receiver sets xFound to 1 on (and only on) receipt of a signal from Hal. Once Dave reaches point r, Hal's entire infinite history lies in Dave's past, and any signal that Hal might have sent to Dave will have arrived. So from Dave's perspective, by point r, Hal has completed a hyperloop.

2009, Klaus Ambos-Spies, Benedikt Löwe, Wolfgang Merkle, Mathematical Theory and Computational Practice, page 70

(computing) A control structure in which a loop repeats until either a stopping condition is met or all possible values of the looping index have been checked.


reslice

en-verb

reslice (third-person singular simple present reslices, present participle reslicing, simple past and past participle resliced)

reslices (present singular third-person)
reslicing (participle present)
resliced (participle past)
resliced (past)

(computer graphics) To calculate from the pixels in the original 3D data that are closest to a particular plane.


trollistically

en-adv

trollistically (comparative more trollistically, superlative most trollistically)

more trollistically (comparative)
most trollistically (superlative)

I hope that you didn't take my last tweet trollistically.

(Internet, humorous, rare) in a trollistic fashion; as if done in a trollistic fashion


BookTuber

Alternative letter-case form of booktuber


booktuber

And last but certainly not least, to all the online book geeks (booktubers, tweeps, and bloggers), my sincere gratitude, as always, for your support and encouragement!

2012, "Acknowledgements," in Daniel Marks, Velveteen, Delacorte Press (2012), page 450

Thank you to the readers, librarians, booksellers, BookTubers, and bloggers who celebrate stories all over the world.

2015, "Acknowledgements," in Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows, Henry Holt and Company (2015), page 464

Booksandquills: Sanne Vliegenthart (yes, that is her actual name) is also a long-time BookTuber.

2015 September, Helga Pearson, “Book Tube: Video Killed the Blog Star”, in Authors Magazine, page 17

(Internet) A YouTube videoblogger who reviews or discusses books.


internetted

From internet + -ed (suffix forming adjectives, and past tense and past participle forms of regular verbs).

suffix

The time required to move large blocks of characters into and out of space in main memory seriously limits the computer's processing capabilities and its responsiveness, particularly during a time of high volume use, such as a crisis. Additional memory and secondary storage are required to handle these large blocks of characters. However, the movement of so many unnecessary characters complicates the use of these computers in an internetted multisite environment.

1979 December 14, “How Responsive, Reliable, and Survivable are the WWMCCS Standard Computer Systems?”, in The World Wide Military Command and Control System—Major Changes Needed in Its Automated Data Processing Management and Direction: By the Comptroller General: Report to the Congress of the United States (LC D-80-22), Washington, D.C.: United States General Accounting Office, →OCLC, page 23

An example of an information network is the Defense Department's ARPANET—where a user at a computer terminal in one part of the country has access to many internetted computers throughout the country […]

1981 September 29, Stephen J[oseph] Lukasik (witness), “Statement of Stephen J. Lukasik, Chief Scientist, Office of Science and Technology, Federal Communications Commission”, in Emergency Management Information and Technology: Hearings before the Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight of the Committee on Science and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, First Session […] (no. 55), Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, published [1982], →OCLC, page 119

The physical basis of such internetted structures can be found with the creation of the Advanced Research Project Agencies Network (ARPANET) in 1969. An experiment conducted by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the ARPANET experiment sought to explore technologies for the networking of remote research sites.

1996 April–June, Robert J. Bunker, “Internetted Structures and C² Nodes”, in Susan M. Miranda, editor, Military Intelligence Professional Bulletin (PB 34-96-2), volume 2, number 2, Fort Huachuca, Ariz.: U.S. Army Intelligence Center and Fort Huachuca, →OCLC, page 26, column 2

By cyberspace, I refer to the global collection of internetted computers and communication systems. […] The key word in the definition is "internetted," the characteristic that makes it possible to access some systems from others perhaps half a world away.

1996 June 25, Robert H. Anderson (witness), “Verbal Testimony: Risks to the U.S. Infrastructure from Cyberspace”, in Security in Cyberspace: Hearings before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Second Session […] (S. Hrg. 104-701), Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, page 365

(networking) Connected into a computer network.

And by September of next year, all of my high schools will be fully wired and fully "Internetted" in virtually every single classroom.

2001 March 21, Paul Vallas (witness), “Statement of Paul Vallas, Chief Executive Officer, Chicago Public Schools”, in President’s Tax Relief Proposals: Tax Proposals Affecting Individuals: Hearing before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventh Congress, First Session […] (serial no. 107-6), Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, page 113

[A]s one of the wealthiest, most heavily ‘internetted’ countries in the world, the United States too has tremendous inequalities.

2004, Crispin Thurlow, Laura Lengel, Alice Tomic, “Online Ethics and International Inequities”, in Computer Mediated Communication: Social Interaction and the Internet, London, Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE Publications, strand 2 (Critique: Central Issues), page 87

[T]he necessity to develop advanced digital literacies so we could surf among the ever-increasing waves of information that were entering our "internetted" lives.

2015, Sheri R. Parris, Kathy Headley, “Introduction”, in Sheri R. Parris, Kathy Headley, editors, Comprehension Instruction: Research-based Best Practices, 3rd edition, New York, N.Y.: Guilford Press, page 1

(specifically, Internet) Connected to, or able to access, the Internet.

internetiin yhdistetty

connected to, or able to access, the Internet


trollface

Compound of troll (“person who provokes others for personal amusement or to cause disruption”) + face.

com+

Geek revelers. This is a very rare antagonism. Maybe it doesn't even exist. But if it exists, Gigablog leaves here a fantasy tip. Carnatroll is a mask with the face of the most famous meme on the internet, the Trollface.

2011 February 28, “‘Troll Face’ mask promises to delight geek partygoers”, in Uol News, Rodrigo Vitulli

Thanks to the Trollface meme, those with a secret affinity for the hilarious ways of trolling now have a figure to worship.

2011 March 24, “Land of a million memes”, in The Gateway, volume 101, number 42, University of Alberta, page 18

People took trollface and pasted it into other comics, whenever a character was either being a pest or generally annoying people.

2012, Sean Rockey & Alexander Bevier, "Memes", The Current (Green River Community College), Volume 46, Issue 10, 7 May 2012, page 9

The trollface is a visual representation of what someone might look like when engaging in trolling.

2013, Roger Whitson, Jason Whittaker, William Blake and the Digital Humanities: Collaboration, Participation, and Social Media, Routledge, page 111

(Internet slang) An illustration of a face with a cartoonishly wide, maniacal grin (from a comic drawn by Carlos Ramirez and originally posted on the 4chan community), typically featured in image macros to convey trolling, mockery, or humorous intent.


fontology

(computing, informal) The study of fonts, or electronic typefaces.


quickscope

(video games, slang) A rapid kill with a sniper rifle after scoping in.

(video games, slang) The act of quickly scoping in with a sniper rifle (to kill an opponent).


quickscope

en-verb

quickscope (third-person singular simple present quickscopes, present participle quickscoping, simple past and past participle quickscoped)

quickscopes (present singular third-person)
quickscoping (participle present)
quickscoped (participle past)
quickscoped (past)

I told them all to spectate me in first person, as I quick-scoped the five enemies from the top of the building.

2013, Kenton Sheely (quoting “Misterfoxy”), First Person: War Stories from Gamespace, page 20

I'm not a fan of "quick-scoping," the practice of quickly looking through the scope of a sniper rifle, snapping off a shot, and then immediately switching back to a normal view.

2014 October 13, Andy Chalk, “Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare will cut down on "quick-scoping"”, in PC Gamer

I was a bit annoyed at first as my previous few games had boasted some pretty high K/D whilst quickscoping and now I was being bombarded by constant noob tubes [gun-mounted grenades] and RPGs.

2015, Alan F. Meades (quoting “Soap”), Understanding Counterplay in Video Games, Routledge, page 155

Bolan quick-scoped the first sentry and the round took him center mass, even as the guards opened up.

2015, Don Pendleton, The Executioner: Perilous Cargo, Harlequin, page 64

(transitive, intransitive, video games, slang) To shoot (a character) by means of a quickscope.


peekable

en-adj

peekable (comparative more peekable, superlative most peekable)

more peekable (comparative)
most peekable (superlative)

Peekable streams also have an internal record of their current position and can look ahead in the stream for information.

2012, John Hunt, Smalltalk and Object Orientation: An Introduction, page 130

(computing) Of a stream or other sequence: from which the next value can be retrieved without advancing the pointer from its current position.


RIS

(medicine, software, initialism, acronym) Abbreviation of radiological information system.


laplet

convertible laptop

a type of notebook computer or ultraportable which has a swivel screen that is swiveled around and folded down to cover the keyboard, with the screen facing outwards, becoming a tablet computer

(computing) A type of tablet computer that includes a (removable) keyboard which may double as a screen cover.

(computing) A type of netbook or ultrabook that has a removable keyboard and where the internals are hidden behind the screen instead of below the keyboard.


hosts file

(computing, networking) A plain text file used by an operating system to map hostnames to IP addresses.


XDCC

(Internet) Abbreviation of extended DCC: a file sharing method using IRC, allowing for larger files than DCC.


spawnkill

en-verb

spawnkill (third-person singular simple present spawnkills, present participle spawnkilling, simple past and past participle spawnkilled)

spawnkills (present singular third-person)
spawnkilling (participle present)
spawnkilled (participle past)
spawnkilled (past)

He was spawnkilled about 30-40 times in 20 minutes by one player.

2002 August 26, Flashheart [username], “Re: Why should CTF Flag Camping be wrong”, in alt.games.unreal.tournament (Usenet)

It is ridiculously easy to spawn-kill the VC at their outdoor spawn location, from several relatively safe locations inside the Embassy's ground floor, especially the library windows.

2004, Dan Irish, Men of Valor: Prima's Official Strategy Guide, Prima, page 110

Nothing lowers your morale faster than some jerk spawn killing you for the fifth time and yelling that your mother worked in a Nevada brothel.

2004 October 23, Grl/Grl_Prn [username], “Re: Thank you... I guess”, in alt.games.battlefield1942 (Usenet)

(video games) To kill a player or NPC enemy at a spawn point.


SRE

en-noun

SRE (countable and uncountable, plural SREs)

site reliability engineering
w:site reliability engineering

(computing) Initialism of site reliability engineering.

(computing, countable) Initialism of site reliability engineer.


deadstart

en-verb

deadstart (third-person singular simple present deadstarts, present participle deadstarting, simple past and past participle deadstarted)

deadstarts (present singular third-person)
deadstarting (participle present)
deadstarted (participle past)
deadstarted (past)

(computing, dated, transitive) To boot up.


footgun

This is a footgun! ES6 should have specified that it either fulfills, rejects, or just throws some sort of synchronous error. Unfortunately, because of precedence in Promise libraries predating ES6 Promise, they had to leave this gotcha in there, […]

2015, Kyle Simpson, You Don't Know JS: Async & Performance, O'Reilly Media

If it is what Douglas Crockford might call a “footgun,” then at the very least, condoning and standardizing the “footwounds” will make problems easier to search for and fix.

2017, Evan Burchard, Refactoring JavaScript: Turning Bad Code Into Good Code, O'Reilly Media, page 262

Let's have a look at one of the ways a service locator can become a foot gun. We're going to look at the anti-pattern of using the DI container directly in your code, thereby breaking inversion of control and generally shooting yourself in the foot.

2021, Joseph Edmonds, Lorna Jane Mitchell, The Art of Modern PHP 8, page 295

shooting themselves in the foot
shoot oneself in the foot

(programming slang, humorous, derogatory) Any feature likely to lead to the programmer shooting themselves in the foot.


resilver

resilver (third-person singular simple present resilvers, present participle resilvering, simple past and past participle resilvered)

resilvers (present singular third-person)
resilvering (participle present)
resilvered (participle past)
resilvered (past)

To get back to our RAID 0 +1 configuration, disk volume A will be “resilvered” up to disk B, which runs at the current point in time.

2010, Robert G. Freeman, Matthew Hart, Oracle RMAN 11g Backup and Recovery

(computing, transitive) To synchronize the mirror disk of the RAID array with the master disk.


Googlephone

Russian: гуглофо́н (guglofón)

It will be at least a year or two before Android-based smartphones (Googlephones?) reach any real-world consumers, but when they do, Google will probably offer serious competition to Microsoft, Symbian, and the others.

2008, John Ross, The Book of Wireless, page 258

Will MySpace do a deal with Google to put social networking and music inside the new GooglePhone?

2008, Matthew Fraser, Soumitra Dutta, Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom, page 243

Among them are the emergence of 3D browsing and the merging of virtual worlds with reality; the use of smartphones and Googlephones; standardized web connectivity in new televisions with 3D technology; spread of e-readers; […]

2011, Charles Wankel, Educating Educators with Social Media, page 91

(informal) Any mobile phone that runs the Android operating system.


isthmoid

(graph theory) A set of vertices of a graph after whose deletion the graph is no longer connected.


twoweapon

twoweapon (third-person singular simple present twoweapons, present participle twoweaponing, simple past and past participle twoweaponed)

twoweapons (present singular third-person)
twoweaponing (participle present)
twoweaponed (participle past)
twoweaponed (past)

(transitive, intransitive, video games, roguelikes) To wield two weapons simultaneously.


pretrained

(machine learning, of a model) Trained on a (usually large) dataset by someone else.


pretrain

pretrain (third-person singular simple present pretrains, present participle pretraining, simple past and past participle pretrained)

pretrains (present singular third-person)
pretraining (participle present)
pretrained (participle past)
pretrained (past)

Our algorithm pretrains a CNN using a large set of videos with tracking ground-truths to obtain a generic target representation.

2015, Hyeonseob Nam, Bohyung Han, “Learning Multi-Domain Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Tracking”, in arXiv

(machine learning) To train (a neural network) on some data set (typically a large generic data set, the output of which one is not directly interested in) before fine-tuning the network on another dataset one is interested in.


FreeBSD

(computing) A Unix-like operating system that is derived from Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), notable for having the largest following in the BSD community.


home directory

en-noun

home directory (plural home directories)

On Unix-like operating systems, the home directory is usually /home/<user name>.

(computing) A directory that contains a user's files.

kotihakemisto

a directory that contains a user's files


OpenBSD

(computing) a Unix-like operating system that is derived from Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD)


pseudodirectory

Mountpoint caution special /proc filesystem (page 497), which maps useful Linux kernel information to a pseudodirectory.

2010, Mark G. Sobell, A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux

(computing) A virtual directory entry that does not represent a directory on the underlying file system on disk, instead being automatically generated to represent some other objects in the form of files (for example '/proc' in Linux).


NetBSD

a Unix-like operating system that is derived from Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), notable for running on 57 different platforms


pseudofile

(computing) A file that does not represent a file on the underlying file system on disk, but instead is automatically generated to represent some other object in the form of a file (for example '/proc/cpuinfo' in Linux).


PC-BSD

(computing) A Unix-like operating system that is derived from FreeBSD.


mount point

The following example mounts a CD-ROM drive on a mount point named /hsfiles.

2003, Janice Winsor, Solaris Operating Environment System Administrator's Guide, Prentice Hall Professional, page 194

(computing) The directory in a file system used as an entry point for another file system, often representing the content of a physical or virtual storage device.


spoopy

en-adj

spoopy (comparative more spoopy, superlative most spoopy)

more spoopy (comparative)
most spoopy (superlative)

A photograph of a Halloween sign with the misspelled word “spoopy” (for “spooky”), taken in 2009 and originally uploaded to Flickr, was reposted on Tumblr in 2011, upon which the word become an Internet meme and developed its current sense.

To get into the spoopy spirit, you will exclusively listen to the “Spooky Scary Skeletons” trap remix on repeat from now until Halloween.

2016 October 27, Derek Baker, “Your future is foretold in these spooky horror-scopes”, in The Guantlet, page 17

It's spoopy season — a time for pumpkin carving, trick or treating and “Hocus Pocus” reruns.

2018 October 24, Amelia Calautti, “Get goosebumps with 'Netflix and Chills'”, in The Rice Thresher, page 8

Unfortunately, tricks, treats and spoopy shenanigans aren't the only things escalating in the runup to Halloween.

2018 October 29, Sara Serrano, “Where have all the cats gone?”, in The Collegian, page 14

(Internet slang) Calling upon horror tropes and concepts in cute, nonthreatening or comical ways.


path tracing

(computer graphics) A Monte Carlo method of rendering images of three-dimensional scenes such that the global illumination is faithful to reality.


ABI

application binary interface
w:application binary interface

(software) Initialism of application binary interface.


secret sharing

(cryptography) Any method for distributing a secret amongst a group of participants, each of whom is allocated a share; the secret can be reconstructed only when a sufficient number of shares (possibly of different types) are combined.


RTFFAQ

(Internet) Initialism of read the fucking FAQ.


CBM

Commodore Business Machines
w:Commodore Business Machines

(computing) Initialism of Commodore Business Machines.


reup

en-verb

reup (third-person singular simple present reups, present participle reupping, simple past and past participle reupped)

reups (present singular third-person)
reupping (participle present)
reupped (participle past)
reupped (past)

We’d reupped our lease with the whitegirl who managed the place a month earlier—she wore suits now—and, afterward, Ben had a look on his face.

2020, Bryan Washington, Memorial, Atlantic Books (2021), page 206

(rare except Internet) Alternative form of re-up.


GSC

Pokémon Gold, Silver and Crystal
w:Pokémon Gold and Silver

(fandom slang) Initialism of Pokémon Gold, Silver and Crystal.


FRLG

Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen
w:Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen

(fandom slang) Initialism of Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen.


HGSS

Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver
w:Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver

(video games, fandom slang) Initialism of Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver.


ORAS

Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire
w:Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire

(fandom slang) Initialism of Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire.


RGBY

Pokémon Red, Green, Blue
w:Pokémon Red and Blue

(fandom slang) Initialism of Pokémon Red, Green, Blue and Yellow.


RBY

Pokémon Red, Blue
w:Pokémon Red and Blue

(fandom slang) Initialism of Pokémon Red, Blue and Yellow.


Pokémon Black 2 and White 2
w:Pokémon Black 2 and White 2

(fandom slang) Initialism of Pokémon Black 2 and White 2.


Floyd-Steinberg

First published in 1976 by Robert W. Floyd and Louis Steinberg.

Floyd-Steinberg dithering

Floyd-Steinberg diffusion

a Floyd-Steinberg algorithm

(computer graphics, chiefly attributive) An image dithering technique that uses error diffusion.


microsoftware

Although the current microsoftware market has evolved into a two-tiered system (using distributors to reach retail stores), there are five roles in the distribution chain […]

1984, Small Systems World, volume 12, page 12

These data were analyzed with Excel microsoftware and plotted.

2015 November 5, “Genome-Wide Analysis of Microsatellite Markers Based on Sequenced Database in Chinese Spring Wheat ( Triticum aestivum L.)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

(computing, dated) software for a microcomputer


blogshop

We have previously suggested that the Blogshop phenomenon emerged through the symbiotic relationship of technology adaptation and design with specific geographic conditions.

2010, Hannakaisa Isomäki, Samuli Pekkola, Reframing Humans in Information Systems Development, page 245

Finally, another form of reproducing stereotypes and dominating feminine identities is blogshops, online sites in which young women model and sell apparel via social media that have exploded in many countries.

2013, Kerric Harvey, Encyclopedia of Social Media and Politics, page 570

The blogshop model, 18, makes up for her petite 1.65m frame with her sharp features and megawatt smile.

2012 December 12, Chow Hui Min, “Journey of a Blogshop Model”, in Temasek Polytechnic Campus newspaper: Stop Press, retrieved 2015-10-31

(Singapore) A blog that functions as a retail portal.


rustle someone's jimmies

rustle someone's jimmies (third-person singular simple present rustles someone's jimmies, present participle rustling someone's jimmies, simple past and past participle rustled someone's jimmies)

rustles someone's jimmies (present singular third-person)
rustling someone's jimmies (participle present)
rustled someone's jimmies (participle past)
rustled someone's jimmies (past)

First attested in 2009 (see Citations:rustle someone's jimmies).

It's not that my wide feet are so irresistibly sexy that no man could keep his hands off them — trust me, they're not — but there's just something about feet that really rustles his jimmies.

2014 March 5, Hamarita Jones, “Fetishes, kinks, and paraphilias, oh my!”, in The Cascade, University of the Fraser Valley, page 13

Should I try find love with someone who really rustles my jimmies?

2014, "True love Tracey", letter to "Letters To The Ductus Doctor", Ductus (University of Newcastle), Edition 2 (2014), page 37

And what, I'm sure you're asking, rustles the jimmies of a highly discerning [turtle] bachelor such as myself? I'm looking for a delectable woman who is interested in long, painfully slow walks on the beach, being dazzled by my utterly stunning shell, and mercilessly abandoning any children of our union to be devoured by birds while they desperately try to scramble from land to the water immediately after hatching.

2017 February, The Moot Times, University of Calgary, page 3

(Internet slang) To interest or excite sexually or romantically.


noncomputing

A similar challenge is now facing many of world’s largest noncomputing technology companies.

2015 November 6, John Markoff, “Toyota Invests $1 Billion in Artificial Intelligence in U.S.”, in New York Times


retrogame

(video games) An older video game or computer game that is played by hobbyists.


paint bucket

Click and hold the gradient tool icon (sixth tool on the right) to display the flyout menu pictured on the left in Figure 6-18. Then choose the paint bucket.

2004, Deke McClelland, Adobe Photoshop CS One-on-One, page 172

(computer graphics) A tool in some graphics editor applications that fills in a portion of the image with a certain color or pattern.


postgasm

(Internet, slang) A pleasurable reaction to a post, such as on a forum or message board.


subtour

The resulting problem is solved to integer optimality, violated constraints (which are trivial to find) are added and the process is repeated until a feasible solution is found. In order to speed up the algorithm we pursue several attempts to find as many relevant subtours as possible.

2015, Ulrich Pferschy, Rostislav Stanek, “Generating subtour elimination constraints for the TSP from pure integer solutions”, in arXiv

(graph theory) A tour that makes up part of a larger tour.


leafwise

In particular, in the case where the boundary holonomy is infinitely tangent to the identity, we determine the structure of the group of leafwise holomorphic automorphisms.

2015, Tomohiro Horiuchi, “Reeb components of leafwise complex foliations and their symmetries II”, in arXiv

(mathematics, computing theory) In terms of the leaves of a tree or similar data structure.


mispatch

mispatch (third-person singular simple present mispatches, present participle mispatching, simple past and past participle mispatched)

mispatches (present singular third-person)
mispatching (participle present)
mispatched (participle past)
mispatched (past)

Make sure you have a good boot disk in case anything goes wrong, as your computer probably won't boot with a mispatched COMMAND.COM.

When someone mispatches a cable, the subsequent repair job or hasty "What's wrong with this?" debugging often causes additional failures in short order.

2000, Network World, volume 17, number 50, page 82

(transitive, computing) To patch wrongly.


lapheld

Lapheld computers weigh less than 15 pounds and are usually no larger than a hardcover dictionary. Fortunately, more and more lapheld computers have internal batteries which allow them to be used just about anywhere.

1985, New Accountant, volumes 1-3, page lxvi

(computing, dated, rare) Held on one's lap; being a laptop computer.


lapheld

A few portables, particularly the small laphelds, go one step further and come with software built into the computer.

1985, New Accountant, volumes 1-3, page lxvii

(computing, dated, rare) A laptop computer.


backpropagational

(computing, neurology) Relating to backpropagation.


adbot

(computing) A bot (automated software agent) that displays advertisements.


diskspace

(computing) storage space available on a computer disk


pharmer

(Internet) One who engages in pharming (fraudulent redirection of Internet traffic).


spimming

Another threat to the use of IM is a phenomenon known as spimming. Spimming is to IM as spam is to e-mail. Some aggressive spimmers learned how to take over one IMer's contact list — threatening a company's entire IM system!

2007, Bill Daley, Computers Are Your Future, page 70


spearphisher

(Internet) One who engages in spearphishing.


wikitorial

Blend of wiki + editorial, coined by the Los Angeles Times to describe an experiment of this kind that they attempted in 2005.

(Internet) An editorial that can be edited by users in the manner of a wiki.


social notworking

Blend of social networking + not working

blend

(Internet, humorous) The use of social networking web sites in the workplace, when one is supposed to be productively working.


holddown

(computing) A period during which a network router ignores messages about a currently unreachable route, giving it time to become reachable again.


pumpking

Blend of pumpkin + king, anecdotally from the use of a stuffed pumpkin toy that was handed between employees as a token of permission to make changes, ensuring that only one person could make changes at any particular time.

In addition, various people are pumpkings for different areas. For example, Andy Dougherty and Jarkko Hietaniemi share the Configure pumpkin, and Tom Christiansen is the documentation pumpking.

1999 winter, Nathan Torkington, “Hacking the Perl Core”, in The Perl Journal, volume 4, number 4 (number 16 overall), Boston, Mass.: Readable Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-10-31

Releases are coordinated by a ‘patch pumpkin holder’, or ‘pumpking’ – a quality controller who, with help from Larry [Wall], decides which contributions make the grade and when and bears the heavy responsibility of releasing a new Perl.

2000, Simon Cozens, with Peter Wainwright, Beginning Perl, Birmingham, West Midlands: Wrox Press, page 24

Each release of Perl is assigned a "pumpking." This person controls all changes to the actual source code of the language itself. The pumpking for 5.6 was Gurusamy Sarathy, and the pumpking for 5.8 is Jarkko Hietaniemi.

2002, Clinton Pierce, “Basic Perl”, in Charlotte Clapp, editor, Perl Developer’s Dictionary, Indianapolis, Ind.: Sams Publishing, page 6

Thanks to Doug Miles, the Phoenix Perl Mongers Pumpking, for his tireless dedication to the Phoenix Perl community, which he brought together. Writing Perl in the valley would be a lot lonelier without his hard work.

2005, Scott Walters, Perl 6 Now: The Core Ideas Illustrated with Perl 5 (Expert’s Voice in Open Source), Berkeley, Calif.: Apress, page xxii

(programming, slang) A Perl user working on shared source code who has been temporarily designated as the only person who is allowed to make changes.


exfil

en-noun

exfil (countable and uncountable, plural exfils)

(computing) Clipping of exfiltration (“covert extraction of data”).


UWP

(computing) Initialism of Universal Windows Platform (a framework for applications that run on multiple Windows OS devices)


WinJS

Equivalent to Win (shortening of Windows) + JS (shortening of JavaScript).

compound

shortening of <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">Windows</i>

shortening of <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">JavaScript</i>

(computing) Initialism of Windows Library for JavaScript (an open source JavaScript library developed by Microsoft)


HATEOAS

HATEOAS is one of the principles of the Uniform interface of the REST constraints. It means we are creating self-describing REST APIs.

2019, Dinesh Rajput, Designing Applications with Spring Boot 2.2 and React JS: Step-by-step guide to design and develop intuitive full stack web applications, BPB Publications

software architecture
software architecture

(software architecture) Acronym of Hypermedia as the engine of application state (an interface restriction of a RESTful service).


programming interface

en-noun

programming interface (plural programming interfaces)

(computing) Ellipsis of application programming interface.


tenkey

From ten + key; the numeric keypad includes keys for the ten digits.

(computing) The numeric keypad portion of a computer keyboard.


spin down

en-verb

spin down (third-person singular simple present spins down, present participle spinning down, simple past and past participle spun down)

spins down (present singular third-person)
spinning down (participle present)
spun down (participle past)
spun down (past)

(computing, intransitive, of a disk drive) To reduce its spinning speed from that required for reading and writing.


weakly-typed

A weakly-typed language will most possibly not generate an error or refuse to compile, if the argument passed to a function does not match the expected type closely.

(programming) Belonging to a type system that likely will not result in an error if a passed variable does not closely match the expected type.


strongly-typed

(programming) Belonging to a type system that enforces variables matching (or easily convertible to) the expected types.


statically-typed

Statically typed languages have some great benefits. You always know what type of data you are dealing with, so you don't have to deal with surprises, such as when 2 + '2' = '22', because you're not even allowed to add variables of different types.

2014, Steven Foote, Learning to Program, Addison-Wesley Professional, page 96

(programming) Having, or relating to, a type system that checks the variable types at compile time.


dynamically-typed

A dynamically typed language does not require the programmer to declare the type of data a variable holds before using it. Python is a dynamically typed language.

2022, Ronald T. Kneusel, Strange Code: Esoteric Languages That Make Programming Fun Again, No Starch Press, page 54

(programming) Belonging to a type system that checks the variable types at runtime.


ulp

Abbreviation of unit in the last place or unit of least precision, coined in 1960 by Canadian mathematician and computer scientist William Kahan (born 1933).

The basic concept of two vectors "agreeing to k ulps" (units in the last place) of each entry or of the largest entry allows us to express relationships among computed values and solutions at perturbed data.

1980, Webb Miller, Celia Wrathall, “Software for Roundoff Analysis”, in Software for Roundoff Analysis of Matrix Algorithms, New York, N.Y., London: Academic Press, section 4.2 (Rounding and Perturbations of the Computational Problem), page 86

Floating point operations are correct to within half an ulp, and the calculation of uvw by two floating point multiplications will be correct within about one ulp (ignoring second-order terms).

1981, Donald E[rvin] Knuth, “Arithmetic”, in The Art of Computer Programming (Addison-Wesley Series in Computer Science and Information Processing), 2nd edition, volume 2 (Seminumerical Algorithms), Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, page 217; 3rd edition, Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1997, section 4.2.2 (Accuracy of Floating Point Arithmetic)

The difference between two consecutive machine numbers is called an ulp (unit in the last place, i.e., one digit in the least significant place). The size of an ulp varies depending on where you are in the set of machine numbers. [...] Ideally no function should ever return a result with error exceeding half of an ulp since the distance from the true result to the nearest machine number is always less than half of an ulp, the worst case being when it is exactly halfway between two machine numbers.

1996, “Numerical Mathematics”, in Victor Adamchik et al., edited by Emily Martin, Mathematica 3.0 Standard Add-on Packages, Champaign, Ill.: Wolfram Media; Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, page 369

If, instead of considering ulps of the "exact" value x, we consider ulps of the floating-point value X, we have a property that is very similar to Property 2, with the interesting difference that it now holds for any value of the radix.

2010, Jean-Michel Muller et al., “Definitions and Basic Notions”, in Handbook of Floating-Point Arithmetic, Boston, Mass., Basel: Birkhäuser, →DOI, section 2.6.1 (The Ulp Function), page 34

floating-point number
floating-point number

(computer science, mathematics) The value that the least significant digit of a floating-point number represents, used as a measure of accuracy in numeric calculations.


CoAP

(computing) Initialism of Constrained Application Protocol (protocol specialized for use with constrained nodes and networks).


message queue

interprocess communication
interprocess communication

(computing) A queue onto which messages may be placed for delivery between components as part of interprocess communication.


GPIO

(computing) Initialism of general-purpose input/output (a pin on an integrated circuit whose behavior can be controlled by the user at run time.)


subheap

(computing theory) A heap (data structure) making up part of a larger heap.


(computing) Initialism of Simple Logging Facade for Java device (a Java logging API by means of a simple facade pattern.)


HWB

en-noun

HWB (countable and uncountable, plural HWBs)

(computing) Initialism of Hardware Write Block device (specialized type of computer hard disk controller)

Hardware Write Block device

(computing) Initialism of Hue Whiteness Blackness (a cylindrical-coordinate representation of points in an RGB color model)


softwire

(computing, networking) A type of tunnelling protocol that creates a virtual "wire" that transparently encapsulates another protocol as if were an anonymous point-to-point low-level link.


Feistel cipher

Named after the German-born physicist and cryptographer Horst Feistel.

(cryptography) A symmetric structure used in the construction of block ciphers. It is an iterated cipher with an internal function called a round function.


listsib

And there's another listsib who is in the hospital and needs our support, and I've been doing some things for her, too.

1999 December 19, DawnC, “Re: Priorities”, in alt.tv.sentinel (Usenet)

I had a listsib from the UK mail me a couple bottles once to try and I really loved it a lot.

2002 February 17, Debbie Cusick, “Re: Olive Oil Mayonnaise”, in alt.support.diet.low-carb (Usenet)

After this hallowed happening, we met all, ALL the listsibs present, it was like a party, meeting for the first time wonderous [sic] humans in the flesh... […]

2005, anonymous e-mail, quoted in Heidi Campbell, Exploring Religious Community Online: We Are One in the Network, Peter Lang (2005), page 144

(Internet) A fellow member of a listserv or newsgroup.


listmom

From list + mom, since a mother may be seen as the organising or moderating influence in a household.

"For a while, some of the most animated discussions were not about Mac versus Windows, but Mac OS 9 versus Mac OS X," said listmom Bruce Giles.

2004, Leander Kahney, The Cult of Mac, No Starch Press, page 91

Barbara the listmom, thank you for being patient with me while I've been too busy to post, […]

2005, Iris Schreier, Modular Knits: New Techniques for Today's Knitters, Lark Books, page 126

She currently serves as “listmom” on ACOR.org's colon cancer discussion list […]

2012, The Role of Obesity in Cancer Survival and Recurrence: Workshop Summary, The National Academies Press, page 104

(Internet) A person who runs or moderates a listserv or other online mailing list.


WMI

(computing) Initialism of Windows Management Instrumentation (in the Microsoft Windows operating systems, a set of extensions to the Windows Driver Model)


MSRPC

(computing) Initialism of Microsoft RPC.


WRP

(computing) Initialism of Windows Resource Protection (for system files and the registry)

(computing) Initialism of Winsock Redirect Protocol.

(computing) Initialism of Wireless Routing Protocol (protocol for mobile ad hoc networks)

(computing) Initialism of Workflow Resource Planning (a class of the ERP system)


ProgID

(computing, Windows) Abbreviation of programmatic identifier (string that represents the underlying Clsid)


Clsid

(computing, Windows) Abbreviation of class identifier.


SMB

(video games) Initialism of Super Mario Bros.

(video games) Initialism of Super Meat Boy.

Coordinate term: CIFS

Server Message Block
w:Server Message Block

(networking, Windows) Initialism of Server Message Block.


Chromebase

a generic ChromeOS-based network-terminal-style all-in-one personal computer

all-in-one

a type of personal computer which combines the system unit and screen into one device


Yandex

The name initially stood for “Yet Another iNDEXer”. The Russian word я (ja) corresponds to the English personal pronoun “I”, making Яndex a bilingual pun on index.

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

يَانْدِكْس

Yandex (in other scripts, the trademark may also be written in Roman letters)


Chromebit

The first Chromebooks shipped in 2011, and have since been joined by Chromeboxes and Chromebits headless clients that connect to a keyboard, mouse and display and a small number of all-in-ones.

2017 November 23, Nik Rawlinson, “Should I roll out Chrome OS across my business?”, in IT PRO

Chrome OS tablets may be the new hotness, but the vast majority of devices that have shipped with Google’s Chrome operating system over the years have been laptops… also known as Chromebooks. But a few years ago we also saw the introduction of a few other categories including Chromeboxes (mini desktop computers), Chromebits (PC-on-a-stick devices), and Chromebases (all-in-one, iMac-like desktops).

2019 February 4, Brad Linder, “Chromebases are still a thing”, in Liliputing

There are a lot of Chromebooks and Chromeboxes and Chromebits and what-nots out in the wild, but almost all of them are lower spec cheaper models.

2020 January 18, Jerry Hildenbrand, “Steam for Chrome OS would make Chromeboxes even more awesome”, in Android Central

a generic ChromeOS-based network-terminal-style picocomputer (a stick that plugs into a screen, the size of a highlighter pen)


Chromebox

You can view a complete list of supported Chromebooks, Chromeboxes and Chromebases below: (followed by a list of devices from various manufacturers)

2016 May 19, Dan Graziano, “These are the Chromebooks that support Android apps”, in CNET

(computing) a generic ChromeOS-based network-terminal-style personal computer (this style of PC is the size of a home modem or home network router)


NGP

(video games) Initialism of Neo Geo Pocket a handheld video game system produced by SNK


Gbps

We measure bandwidth by Gbps.

(computing) gigabits per second, a measure of data transfer rate equal to 1,000 megabits per second.