DITA-OT

(Internet) Initialism of DITA Open Toolkit


hovercard

(Internet) An informational pop-up on a web page, activated when the user mouses over it.


FDE

(Adobe, software) Initialism of Frame Development Kit (proprietary environment associated with Adobe Systems' FrameMaker product)


JNA

(computing) Initialism of Java Native Access (an API that provides Java programs easy access to native shared libraries without using the Java Native Interface)


Twitterbot

Automated Twitterbots collected all tweets related to the trial – marked by the posters with the tag '#spectrial' – and distributed them as a central feed for anyone who wished to follow the debate in real time.

2013, James Allen-Robertson, Digital Culture Industry: A History of Digital Distribution, Palgrave Macmillan, page 1

Even better, they've set up a Twitterbot: Just send a tweet with a bike's serial number to @ISITSTOLEN and the bot will check both sites, and report back!

2014 July, Pax Rasmussen, “News and ideas for a healthier, more sustainable future”, in Catalyst Magazine, volume 33, number 7, page 12

That was flagged up by a Twitterbot, @RuGovEdits, an automated Twitter account that crawls the online encyclopedia for such edits.

2014 July 24, Toby Manhire, “The Wikipedia editors rumbled as government staffers”, in New Zealand Listener

A program used to produce automated posts on the microblogging service Twitter; by extension, a Twitter account featuring posts produced by such a program.


killstreak

(video games) An unbroken streak (continuous series) of kills.


undervolted

en-adj

undervolted (comparative more undervolted, superlative most undervolted)

more undervolted (comparative)
most undervolted (superlative)

(computing) Having the voltage reduced from that originally supplied by the manufacturer.


big agile

software engineering
software engineering

(software engineering) The application of agile principles and practices to larger, complex projects, often with teams working from multiple locations.


eigenhead

(mathematics, computing) One of a set of eigenvectors used in visual recognition systems to represent a person's head.


idom

(graph theory) Abbreviation of immediate dominator.


painter's algorithm

Referring to the technique of painting distant parts of a scene before parts which are nearer and thereby covering some areas of distant parts.

(computer graphics) A simple rendering technique that sorts all the polygons in a scene by their depth and then paints them in that order, from farthest to closest.


XPointer

The XPointer specification was designed for use with XML's linking technology, but it can also be used independently of the XLink specification.

2004, Dick R. Miller, Putting XML to Work in the Library

(computing, XML) A system designed to address structural and positional aspects of XML.


XLink

(computing, XML) XML markup language specified by W3C that provides methods for creating internal and external links within XML documents, and associating metadata with those links.


clothify

en-verb

clothify (third-person singular simple present clothifies, present participle clothifying, simple past and past participle clothified)

clothifies (present singular third-person)
clothifying (participle present)
clothified (participle past)
clothified (past)

Select JessiSkirt as the object to clothify

2006, Denise Tyler, Practical Poser 6, page 197

First, you need a prop or figure in your scene, and then something to “clothify.”

2003, Secrets of Figure Creation with Poser 5, page 171

By selecting, scaling, and clothifying these various objects, you can create an assortment of towels, blankets, scarves, shawls, and flags.

2007, Kelly Murdock, Poser® 7 Revealed: The E Frontier Official Guide, page 355

(transitive, computer graphics) To give a cloth-like texture to.


bootkit

Blend of boot (“startup process”) + rootkit.

blend

(computer security) A rootkit which works by replacing the boot loader and patching the kernel before it is starts executing.


SSIS

„SSIS is a platform for data integration and workflow applications. It features a fast and flexible data warehousing tool used for data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL). The tool may also be used to automate maintenance of SQL Server databases and updates to multidimensional cube data.“

(databases, Microsoft) initialism of SQL Server Integration Services.


BIDS

„BIDS functionality can be augmented with BIDS Helper, a Visual Studio add-in with features that extended and enhance business intelligence development functionality in SQL Server 2005, 2008, and 2008 R2 BI Development Studio (BIDS) and SQL Server 2012 SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT). BIDS Helper is hosted on Microsoft's open source project hosting website CodePlex.“

w:Business Intelligence Development Studio

(databases, Microsoft) Acronym of Business Intelligence Development Studio.


craplication

(computing, slang, vulgar) A poor-quality application


undistort

en-verb

undistort (third-person singular simple present undistorts, present participle undistorting, simple past and past participle undistorted)

undistorts (present singular third-person)
undistorting (participle present)
undistorted (participle past)
undistorted (past)

(transitive, computing) To remove the distortion from (an image, sound, or other signal).


SSDT

"BIDS functionality can be augmented with BIDS Helper, a Visual Studio add-in with features that extended and enhance business intelligence development functionality in SQL Server 2005, 2008, and 2008 R2 BI Development Studio (BIDS) and SQL Server 2012 SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT). BIDS Helper is hosted on Microsoft's open source project hosting website CodePlex."

(databases, Microsoft) Abbreviation of SQL Server Data Tools.


Polandball

Compound of Poland + ball, coined circa 2009.

One comic, in which Poland flies into space and stops Russia using Crimea as a means of ramming the United States, has shot to the top of the charts in the Polandball sub-forum on Reddit.

2014 March 4, Emmet Ryan, “Polandball is Reddit's answer to Crimea crisis”, in The Daily Business Post, Businesspost.ie, retrieved 2014-11-01

This Polandball comic sums it up better.

2014 September 11, Arunabh Saikia, “Why Some Calamities Are More Equal Than Others”, in The Newslaundry

2014, "Mexicoball", The Polandball Book, →ISBN:

It’s also gotten attention from the Polish media. Gazeta Wyborcza reported on it (po polsku), and, on Culture.pl, Wojciech Oleksiak wrote an in-depth English analysis, including a presumably tongue-in-cheek guide to drawing a Polandball.

2015 May 2, Steven Hoffman, “How Polandball can of taking over internets”, in Krakow Post

international relations
international relations

A user-generated internet meme, where countries are presented as spherical personas (countryballs) that interact in often broken English, poking fun at national stereotypes and international relations; an individual spherical persona from this.


rubber duck debugging

From a story in the book The Pragmatic Programmer (1999).

(programming) The practice in which a programmer attempts to solve a bug by explaining their code to an inanimate object, such as a rubber duck.

The Pragmatic Programmer
rubber duck debugging


CTFE

(programming) Initialism of compile-time function execution.


YouPube

Recent viewing: Doug Stanhope on YouPube

2007 January 1, Hypodeemic Nerdle, “Festivities”, in uk.misc (Usenet)

just being looking around on youpube etc. jan hammer stuff and the Dx7...god i wanted one of those!!

2009 January 19, Jules, “dragon 32 + freecycle + stupid woman”, in uk.culture.nostalgia.1980s (Usenet)

Patrick Michael Sullivan of Nanaimo kept spamming YouPube links on usenet while owing $226,223.46 to other people

2010 August 27, The Patrick Michael Sullivan UCM Repost Project, “Patrick Michael Sullivan of Nanaimo kept spamming libel and drivel on usenet while owing $226,223.46 to other people”, in misc.invest.stocks (Usenet)

erm you mean arrange your will to include whoever finds your remains to post said video on youpube?

2012 April 30, JimK, “White spirit won't burn?”, in uk.d-i-y (Usenet)

(derogatory, Internet slang) The video-sharing site YouTube.


code golf

By analogy with the sport of golf, in which players aim to sink the ball in the hole in the fewest strokes possible.

(programming) A recreational computer programming competition in which participants attempt to write the shortest possible source code to implement a given algorithm.


line number

(computing) The sequential number indicating a particular line of text in a text file.


Tumblrite

And even if people did care, there is no turning back, not with devout Tumblrites and Instagrammers constantly shoving this pop fashion down our throats […]

2013, Becki Jenkins, "Music is taking over the fashion world…", MIC Magazine, 15 May 2013, page 41

So it's hard to determine if losing faith in humanity is even a common-held sentiment that people hold, or an exaggerated phrase designed for some kind of "oh no you didn't!" reaction that shocks the hearts of Tumblrites.

2013, Dylan Hendrickson, "No hope for humanity", The Mustang (San Diego Academy), Volume 18, Issue 2, 7 November 2013, page 10

In front of children on their parents' shoulders, fashionably dressed teenage Tumblrites, and several pockets of breakdancing troupes set up directly on the Yonge-Dundas blacktop, he demonstrated the bag of performance tricks that have bolstered his reputation.

2014 July 24, Jordan Sowunmi, “APB at Yonge-Dundas Square”, in NOW, Toronto

(social media, sometimes derogatory) A user of the microblogging and social networking site Tumblr.


keyboardable

en-adj

keyboardable (comparative more keyboardable, superlative most keyboardable)

more keyboardable (comparative)
most keyboardable (superlative)

In addition, WinAmp is highly keyboardable, and most features can be activated via hotkeys.

2000, Scot Hacker, MP3: The Definitive Guide, page 63

(computing, of software) Usable with a keyboard as the only input device.


Instagrammer

The more likes a photo has, the higher the probability it will make it to the Popular page, at which point, the more probable it is that thousands of other Instagrammers will find it and follow that user.

2011, Joseph Linaschke, Getting the Most from Instagram, Peachpit Press, published 2011

If the Photo Map feature is enabled, then Instagrammers can add their business locations to their image information as they are finalizing their pictures.

2013, Jason Miles, Instagram Power: Build Your Brand and Reach More Customers with the Power of Pictures, McGraw Hill Professional, published 2013, page 180

At farmers' markets
the flower stalls draw big crowds

2014, Peyton Price, Suburban Haiku: Poetic Dispatches from Behind the Picket Fence, Running Price, page 58

(Internet) A user of the photo-sharing and social networking service Instagram.


hateblog

Every reasonable source (aka not Democratic hateblogs) also disproves this troll's idiotic claims.

2009 October 27, Jim Alder, “Re: Another leftard lie about President Bush”, in talk.politics.misc (Usenet)

The legislation was a formal expression of support for Chris Armstrong, the University of Michigan student government president who has been in the news lately as the target of a hate-blog written by Andrew Shirvell, the Michigan assistant attorney general.

2010, "ASG Complicates Simple Opportunity", The Arkansas Traveler (University of Arkansas), Volume 105, Number 15, 10 December 2010, page 4

Not only did 9/11 confirm this, but the rising cases of social media terrorism though uncensored hate-blogs have also awakened the world to various groups of vindictive individuals who stop at nothing to achieve their objective of destroying the target.

2013 September 29, Angela Ambitho, “Let’s also crush social media terrorists”, in The Standard, Kenya

A blog dedicated to expressing intense disapproval or hatred of someone or something.


SSRS

SQL Server Reporting Services
w:SQL Server Reporting Services

(databases, Microsoft) Initialism of SQL Server Reporting Services.


shelfie

From shelf + -ie, by analogy with selfie.

Besides a feline closeup she’s placed on one shelf, and an opera mask on another, her shelfie shows a wonderful collection of books about music, including “The Rough Guide to Opera,” several biographies of Mozart and the history “Women Making Music.”

2013 December 18, Hector Tobar, “Hey everybody, let's 'shelfie!'”, in Los Angeles Times

She's certainly observed the rate at which people are posting shelfies on Instagram.

2014 April 25, Dale Hrabi, “The Rise of the 'Shelfie': Instagram's Next Craze”, in The Wall Street Journal

Some practitioners have tried to position the shelfie as "the intellectual's selfie," making it seem like some digital form of 17th-century Dutch still-life painting.

2014 May 31, “Sharing your shelfie”, in Winnipeg Free Press

From social media “shelfies” to Zoom backgrounds, to hyperinflated coffee-table tomes, books are everywhere nowadays, even—perhaps even especially—in the homes of people who never really read.

2024 February 9, Edwin Heathcote, “‘Bookshelf wealth’ is the oldest decorating trick in the book”, in Financial Times

(social media, slang) A photograph of a bookshelf/bookcase taken by its owner and shared on social media.


TASer

From TAS (“tool-assisted speedrun”) + -er.

(video games) A gamer who records speedruns created with the help of software tools.


transrecursive

(computing theory) Being or relating to a type of operator used in hypercomputation.


genocidable

There had been the argument in the past that removing all the genocidable monsters would increase the generation rate of the more dangerous non-genocidable monsters.

2012 January 6, Janis, “A prelimary review of UnNethack”, in rec.games.roguelike.nethack (Usenet)

(video games, roguelikes, of a class of monsters) Capable of being completely eliminated from the game by means of magic.


minimum spanning tree

en-noun

minimum spanning tree (plural minimum spanning trees)

A spanning tree that has minimum possible weight for a given graph


bitonic

(computing theory, of a sequence) Having the property x_0≤⋯≤x_k≥⋯≥x_n-1 for some k,0≤k<n, or being a circular shift of such a sequence.


Lanczos algorithm

(computing theory) An iterative algorithm that is an adaptation of power methods to find the most useful eigenvalues and eigenvectors of an nth-order linear system with a limited number of operations, m, where m is much smaller than n.


doxx

en-verb

doxx (third-person singular simple present doxxes, present participle doxxing, simple past and past participle doxxed)

doxxes (present singular third-person)
doxxing (participle present)
doxxed (participle past)
doxxed (past)

A phonetic respelling of docs, which is a clipped form of documents.

The amorphous hacktivist collective known as “Anonymous” decided to make a spectacle of the situation by publishing personally identifiable information on – “doxxing” – Todd’s stalker.

2012 October 29, Danah Boyd, “Truth, Lies, and ‘Doxxing’: The Real Moral of the Gawker/Reddit Story”, in Wired

In that frame of mind, the worst thing that can happen will always be online. Being doxxed or ridiculed, for example, outweighs the offline risks of wasted time, poor health, or arrest.

2013, Parmy Olson, We Are Anonymous, unnumbered page

Anonymous said: shit, I hope no one doxxes her. She actually delivered. She seems like a kind girl.
Anonymous replied: dude get a grip she gave her first name, her physician's full name, and even the dormitory area she lives in she wants to be found.
Anonymous replied: She is new. Any girl who uses signs or writes names on her body is clearly new to camwhoring, so they really don't know what they're getting themselves into.

2014, Jamie Bartlett, The Dark Net, page 15

“Evan doxxed everyone in Dramatis Personai. Those guys aren't just 'offline.'” Max said. “They're dead.”
PHYREWALL laughed.
“What's funny about that?” Max asked.
“He couldn't have doxxed everyone,” PHYREWALL said.
“He doxxed you, Nat,' Max said.

2014, E. C. Myers, The Silence of Six, unnumbered page

In a Twitter Spaces discussion, Mr. Musk defended the decision to block the journalists. “You doxx, you get suspended, end of story,” he said, and then abruptly left the call.

2022 December 16, Bernhard Warner, quoting Elon Musk, “Musk Faces Growing Anger Over Twitter Ban of Journalists”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

(Internet, slang, transitive) To publish personal information of (a person) without their consent.

起底

to publish personal information (of an individual) on the Internet

разглаша́ть конфиденциа́льную информа́цию

(Internet, slang, transitive) To reveal the operator of (an anonymous online account) without their consent.


tilemap

(computer graphics) A two-dimensional grid made up of rectangular tiles of equal size, each of which can display an image.


user-unfriendly

en-adj

user-unfriendly (comparative more user-unfriendly, superlative most user-unfriendly)

more user-unfriendly (comparative)
most user-unfriendly (superlative)

Does the [rail] industry really want customers? If so, why does it make the whole ticketing experience so user-unfriendly?

2022 September 21, Barry Doe, “Errors continue as journey break rules aren't explained”, in RAIL, number 966, page 63

(chiefly computing) Not helpful to users; difficult for an untrained person to use.


accountless

accountless (comparative more accountless, superlative most accountless)

more accountless (comparative)
most accountless (superlative)

(business, finance, computing) Not possessing an account.


rebloggable

rebloggable (comparative more rebloggable, superlative most rebloggable)

more rebloggable (comparative)
most rebloggable (superlative)

Every blog post is potentially rebloggable via RSS technology.

2009, Curt Cloninger, Fresher Styles for Web Designers: More Eye Candy from the Underground, New Riders, page 117

With its suspense-filled editing, rapid-fire dialogue, and moments you can totally make into rebloggable GIF sets to fit any range of emotions from “life sucks” to “I'm happy and it's confusing” to “life sucks,” […]

2013, Amanda Rodriguez, "Sherlock Inspires Mystery, Tumblr Erotica", The MQ (satirical newspaper of John Muir College, University of California, San Diego), Volume 19, Issue 6, 1 May 2013, page 10

Streetwear transcends downtown skate parks and emerges as instantly rebloggable on Tumblr dashboards everywhere thanks to celebrities with a knack for LOLs and labels.

2013 October, Cori Rosen, “Label Maker”, in Jerk, volume 12, number 1, Syracuse University, page 47

Capable of, or suitable for, being reblogged.


Desargues graph

en-noun

Desargues graph (plural Desargues graphs)

(graph theory) A distance-transitive cubic graph with 20 vertices and 30 edges.


dehighlight

en-verb

dehighlight (third-person singular simple present dehighlights, present participle dehighlighting, simple past and past participle dehighlighted)

dehighlights (present singular third-person)
dehighlighting (participle present)
dehighlighted (participle past)
dehighlighted (past)

(transitive, computing) To remove a selection highlight from.


unhighlight

unhighlight (third-person singular simple present unhighlights, present participle unhighlighting, simple past and past participle unhighlighted)

unhighlights (present singular third-person)
unhighlighting (participle present)
unhighlighted (participle past)
unhighlighted (past)


rubber-hose cryptanalysis

Referring to the use of a rubber hose as a weapon to beat somebody with.

We have shown that GNUnet is vulnerable to rubber-hose cryptanalysis, but we additionally have presented an efficient content filter for GNUnet. If content filtering is legally enforced, censoring GNUnet is possible at a very large scale.

2003, Dennis Kügler, “An Analysis of GNUnet”, in Privacy Enhancing Technologies: Third International Workshop, edited by Roger Dingledine, Springer Science & Business Media, page 175

Catherine scooted out of the way, giving Terry access to the keyboard. With a labored sigh, Terry began searching the encrypted text. “I could try a ciphertext-only attack,” he mumbled to no one in particular. “Then again,” he glared at the attacker and continued, “I could always try rubber-hose cryptanalysis.” He thought for a moment. “I don't need a total break; I'm only interested in information deduction. Let me check the swap file.”

2005, Ryan Russell, Peter A Riley, Jay Beale, Chris Hurley, Tom Parker, Brian Hatch, Stealing the Network: How to Own an Identity: How to Own an Identity, Syngress, page 279

Other types of cryptanalytic attacks include chosen cipher text, chosen key, rubber hose cryptanalysis, and purchase key. Algorithms differ by degrees of security; this depends on how hard they are to break.

2010, Hazarathaiah Malepati, Digital Media Processing: DSP Algorithms Using C, Newnes, page 18

(cryptography, euphemistic) The extraction of cryptographic secrets by coercion or torture.


multiextent

For a multiextent file, all extents on one physical device must use the same logical unit number; the definition of the extents must be in consecutive, ascending order.

1994, H. Frank Cervone, VSE/ESA JCL: Utilities, Power, and VSAM, page 107

(computing) Consisting of more than one extent.


Joliet

The city in Illinois was probably named after 17th-century explorer Louis Jolliet.

(computing) A file system specification that extends ISO 9660 to relax restrictions on filenames.


tagset

In fact, these specifications, if stable enough and agreed and harmonized across languages, make different physical tagsets compatible and mappable on each other.

1999, H. van Halteren, Syntactic Wordclass Tagging, page 154

(corpus linguistics, computing) A collection of tags.


Bloom filter

Conceived by Burton Howard Bloom in 1970.

(computing theory) A space-efficient probabilistic data structure that is used to test whether an element is a member of a set. False positive matches are possible, but false negatives are not.


pdf

(Internet, euphemistic) Alternative form of PDF file (“paedophile”)


Pokémania

Teachers, who had vivid memories of the temporary insanity of POGS a few years earlier, said they'd never seen a craze to rival Pokémania.

2001, Kathleen McDonnell, Honey, We Lost the Kids: Re-thinking Childhood in the Multimedia Age, Second Story Press, page 97

It is one that reflects what I found to be the general attitude of American adults regarding the Pokémania that captivated U.S. youth for at least two years: that, though a popular fad of immense proportions, Pokémon (and through it Japan) influenced American youth in terms of their goals, actions, or attitudes in a way that was judged to be relatively benign.

2008, Anne Allison, “The Attractions of the J-Wave for American Youth”, in Yasushi Watanabe, David L. McConnell, editors, Soft Power Superpowers: Cultural and National Assets of Japan and the United States, M. E. Sharpe, page 105

Launched on the wave of Pokémania was Viz's four-part manga The Electric Tale of Pikachu.

2009, Jason S. Yadao, The Rough Guide to Manga, Rough Guides, page 48

(informal) Passion for the Pokémon media franchise.


polymorphitis

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


IMSP

(Internet) Internet Message Support Protocol


ECE

Initialism of electrical and computer engineering.

Initialism of early childhood education.


DevOps

DevOps is a popular term in the IT world at the moment. There are many different opinions as to what DevOps actually is. In simple terms, DevOps is the mix of development and operations. It is essentially creating a sort of "hybrid programmer"[…]

2018, Alex Braunton, Hands-On DevOps with Vagrant: Implement end-to-end DevOps and infrastructure management using Vagrant, Packt Publishing Ltd, page 11

information technology
information technology

(software engineering) A software development method that stresses communication and collaboration between software developers and other information technology professionals.


mobile device

An item of hand-held electronic equipment, especially a smartphone or tablet computer.


RDFa

(software, Internet) Initialism of Resource Description Framework in Attributes.


shadowban

shadowban (third-person singular simple present shadowbans, present participle shadowbanning, simple past and past participle shadowbanned)

shadowbans (present singular third-person)
shadowbanning (participle present)
shadowbanned (participle past)
shadowbanned (past)

On Wednesday a Vice News story reported that some senior Republican officials were not visible in automatic search results. Vice framed this as “shadow banning” without providing any evidence that it was deliberate.

2018 July 27, Jason Wilson, “What is 'shadow banning', and why did Trump tweet about it?”, in The Guardian

Over the weekend, Sweeney tweeted that his account had been shadowbanned, meaning that its visibility had been deliberately reduced.

2022 December 14, Maya Yang, “Twitter suspends account that monitors flight paths of Elon Musk’s private jet”, in The Guardian

(transitive, Internet) To ban a user from a community without their knowledge, allowing them to continue reading and commenting, but rendering their contributions invisible or less visible to other users.

(transitive, Internet, of a search engine) To filter out results without the publisher's knowledge.


shadowban

Is there any basis for the idea that conservatives are being targeted for shadow bans? No – at least not based on what Vice purported to show.

(Internet) An instance of shadowbanning.


counterprogramme

A programme that counters or responds to another programme.


clickfest

(video games, informal) A game that involves a great deal of clicking (with the mouse or other pointing device).


EPUB

en-noun

EPUB (countable and uncountable, plural EPUBs)

(publishing, computing) A file format based on this standard


preparser

(computing) A software component that performs parsing in advance.


linkfest

(Internet, informal) A situation where there are many hyperlinks.


year 2038 problem

(computing) A time computing problem that leaves some computer systems unable to represent times after 03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038.


XMPP

(Internet) Initialism of extensible messaging and presence protocol: a communications protocol for message-oriented middleware based on XML.


AI-complete

Problems like solving crosswords from clues are reputed as AI-complete [7]. This enormous complexity is due to its semantics and the large amount of encyclopaedic knowledge required.

2006, M.Gori, M.Ernandes, G.Angelini, “Cracking Crosswords: The Computer Challenge”, in Oliviero Stock, Marco Schaerf, editors, Reasoning, Action and Interaction in AI Theories and Systems: Essays Dedicated to Luigia Carlucci Aiello, Springer Science & Business Media, page 266

Just as concept kernels are not AI-complete, sequiturs and resonances are not AI-complete. Sequiturs and resonances also may not need to be human- equivalent to minimally support deliberation; it is acceptable for an early AI to miss out on many humanly obvious thoughts, so long as those thoughts which are successfully generated sum to fully general deliberation.

2007, Ben Goertzel, Cassio Pennachin, Artificial General Intelligence, Springer Science & Business Media, page 452

... Now imagine a remote descendant of such a system that has acquired the ability to read with as much understanding as a human ten-year-old but with a reading speed similar to that of TextRunner. (This is probably an AI-complete problem.)

2014, Nick Bostrom, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, Oxford University Press, page 71

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

(artificial intelligence, informal) Of a problem: such that a solution presupposes or entails solving the problem of constructing a general artificial intelligence ("strong AI").


surface Web

(computing, Internet) The portion of the World Wide Web that is indexed by conventional search engines.


Deep Web

Attributed to Computer Scientist Michael K. Bergman, 2001.

In contrast, most data in the deep Web are structured data records stored in backend database systems and there are usually no hyperlinks among these data records. Due to the existence of extensive links among Web pages in the surface […]

2012, Eduard C. Dragut, Weiyi Meng, Clement Yu, Deep Web Query Interface Understanding and Integration, Morgan & Claypool Publishers, page 3

(computing, Internet) The portion of the World Wide Web that is not indexed by conventional search engines.

(computing, Internet, proscribed) The Dark Web (the part of the Web only accessible via restricted networks).


Real Programmer

Real Programmer (plural Real Programmers)

Everyone working at LucasFilm is a Real Programmer. (It would be crazy to turn down the money of fifty million Star Trek fans.) The proportion of Real Programmers in Computer Graphics is somewhat lower than the norm, mostly because ...

1995, Andrew Davison, Humour the Computer, MIT Press, page 50

Julian Templeman first touched fingers to keypunch in 1972, punching Fortran code onto cards at college in London. Soon after, he moved on to Macro- 11 programming on PDP-11s. This qualifies him as a Real Programmer, and until recently, he had a PDP-11 in his garage to remind him of better times.

2002, Julian Templeman, Andy Olsen, Microsoft Visual C++.NET Step by Step, page 618

Interdicted Real Programmer. Not someone you want to get in the way of, he's usually the best programmer on a project, and he's usually annoyed because management has stuck yet another stupid wall between him and getting his job done.

2003, John Ray, William Ray, Mac OS X Maximum Security, Sams Publishing, page 56

The Real Programmer wants a “you asked for it, you got it” text editor; one that is complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, and dangerous. TECO, to be precise.

2011, Kevin B. Bennett, John M. Flach, Display and Interface Design: Subtle Science, Exact Art, CRC Press, page 110

(computing, slang) An archetypal highly skilled programmer, who eschews abstractions and convenient modern tools and methods of programming, instead preferring to use a manually-optimised low-level language or program directly in machine code for maximum performance.


bare metal

Real programmers don't write applications programs; they program right down to the bare metal. Applications programming is for wimps who can't do systems programming.

1987, “The Real Programmer's Handbook”, in U-M Computing News, volume 2, UM Libraries, page 7

After all, this isn't PC Week, or another magazine that primarily covers the happenings of the PC world. This is Embedded Systems Programming, where we often program right down to the bare metal like Real Programmers, unlike those sissy PC guys (insert the sound of a hairy chest being thumped here).

1997, Embedded Systems Programming, Miller Freeman Publications, page 118

Which has its pluses and minuses—it's really hard to write device drivers for bare metal in a completely type-safe language just because the levels of abstraction are wrong for talking to the bare metal.

2009, Peter Seibel, Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming, Apress

Compared to other modern languages, C is much less forgiving, much more terse, and generally much more ill tempered. However, it is about as close to programming on the bare metal as you can get while still using a well-supported language with good library support for everything from numeric calculations to graphics.

2012, John Ray, William Ray, Sams Teach Yourself Xcode 4 in 24 Hours, Sams Publishing, page 314

The bare metal hypervisor has a significantly higher level of control over the resources available it because it does not have to go through an intermediary to access the resources.

2012, Peter Membrey, Eelco Plugge, David Hows, Practical Load Balancing: Ride the Performance Tiger, Apress, page 214

What is a bare-metal setup? Programs that run on bare metal typically follow a very simple format: they do one thing, more or less forever.

2013, Bryon Moyer, Real World Multicore Embedded Systems, Newnes, page 519

programming language
programming language

(programming) A runtime environment where little to no abstraction is available: usually employing a low-level programming language, without access to any operating system facilities, and interfacing hardware directly.

A hypervisor is a thin, guest OS—independent Virtualization layer that is loaded onto bare metal, which interacts with the hardware directly and creates virtual machines in which operating systems, either enlightened or not, can run.

2007, Barb Goldworm, Anne Skamarock, Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs, John Wiley & Sons, page 98

In 1998 virtualization was "rediscovered" for the x86 platform by VMWare, but due to instruction translation the approach taken was slow when compared to bare metal performance.

2009, Latifa Boursas, Mark Carlson, Wolfgang Hommel, Michelle Sibilla, Kes Wold, Systems and Virtualization Management: Standards and New Technologies, Springer Science & Business Media, page 61

SoftLayer is focused on bare metal servers. Bare metal servers provide a higher level of freedom for the businesses in choosing their virtual servers.

2014, S. Srinivasan, Cloud Computing Basics, Springer, page 75

(computing) Physical hardware, as opposed to virtualised.


detokenize

en-verb

detokenize (third-person singular simple present detokenizes, present participle detokenizing, simple past and past participle detokenized)

detokenizes (present singular third-person)
detokenizing (participle present)
detokenized (participle past)
detokenized (past)

(transitive, computing) To convert (a tokenized representation) back to the original form.


retokenize

retokenize (third-person singular simple present retokenizes, present participle retokenizing, simple past and past participle retokenized)

retokenizes (present singular third-person)
retokenizing (participle present)
retokenized (participle past)
retokenized (past)

(transitive, computing) To tokenize again.


carputer

(computing) A form of personal computer or similar device designed to be installed in the dashboard of a car


memory barrier

Memory barriers are necessary because most modern CPUs employ performance optimizations that can result in out-of-order execution.

(computing, programming) An instruction that enforces an ordering constraint on memory operations issued before and after it.


RAW

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


metacompiler

(computing) A compiler used to construct compilers for other programming languages.


typeover

(computing) overtype (wordprocessing feature)


zorch

zorch (third-person singular simple present zorches, present participle zorching, simple past and past participle zorched)

zorches (present singular third-person)
zorching (participle present)
zorched (participle past)
zorched (past)

I was well on my way to zorching my GPA as a sophomore and becoming quite the computer hacker when Luis my mentor took me aside. He told me that my grades werent up to snuff when I told him I was getting C's in Spanish (that was my best subject that month).

1990 November 30, Jim Burnes, “"ZOG"?”, in alt.conspiracy (Usenet)

Assuming you are willing to live with the consequences, which include obliterating everything within a hundred kilometers of your launch site, dumping a hundred tons of fallout into the stratosphere, and zorching every piece of electronics sight.

2002 April 3, John Schilling, “Interstellar Flight Today”, in rec.arts.sf.science (Usenet)

[…] I probably just wasn't inserting the memory DIMM correctly, not that it was intrinsically unseatable; I zorched the motherboard myself when trying to remove disk drives […]

2002 May 20, Timothy A. McDaniel, “ConJose planning”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet)

But if you're doing disk-to-disk backup you want at least two backup disks, since it's kind of a nightmare if your good disk zorches right in the middle of the backup, giving you a zorched backup disk as well.

2003 May 7, Alan Winston - SSRL Admin Cmptg Mgr, “AKICIF: Browser bafflement”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet)

Zorching the economy so badly we still haven't dug out two years after he's gone ..

2011 July 15, Curt, “First Rule of Liberalism”, in seattle.politics (Usenet)

(intransitive, transitive, slang) To destroy or ruin, especially by electronic means.


zorch

This is done by using a numerical constant, called zorch, to start marker-passing and dividing it by outbranching […]

1987, John McDermott, Artificial Intelligence: 10th International Joint Conference, volume 1, page 152

[…] it and all its first set of descendants can be marked, but the zorch runs out quickly.

1989, Noel E. Sharkey, Models of Cognition: A Review of Cognitive Science

In order to quantify network connectivity between one protein and others, we adapted the idea of zorch originally used to describe cognition (Hendler, 1989).

2008, Richard Trent Llewellyn, Annotating the Biological Process of Proteins with Functional Linkages, page 39

A numerical factor used to limit semantic searches in cognitive modelling.


kaomoji

From Japanese 顔(かお)文(も)字(じ) (kaomoji), from 顔(かお) (kao, “face”) + 文(も)字(じ) (moji, “letter, character”).

Coordinate term: emoji

While kaomoji and emoji express contexts or moods that cannot be conveyed through textual information alone, they are also used to compensate for the lack of personalization in electronic text that otherwise exists in hand-written form.

2010, Misa Matsuda, “Japanese mobile youth in the 2000s”, in Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, Theresa Dirndorfer Anderson, Damien Spry, editors, Youth, Society and Mobile Media in Asia, Routledge, page 35

For example, the typical emoticon for smile, :-), is the kaomoji ^--^.

2011, Francisco Yus, Cyberpragmatics: Internet-mediated Communication in Context, John Benjamins, published 2011, page 170

Katsuno and Yano (2002) insisted that the development of kaomoji (emoticon in Japanese) online has important connections with Japanese popular culture.

2013, Hyisung C. Hwang, David Matsumoto, “Nonverbal Behaviours and Cross-Cultural Communication in the New Era”, in Farzad Sharifian, Maryam Jamarani, editors, Language and Intercultural Communication in the New Era, Routledge, page 130

According to Nishimura, kaomojis are so frequently used in Japan that they have been “codified” in dictionaries.

2017, Carmen Lee, “Linguistic diversity and language choice online”, in Multilingualism Online, London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, page 31

Going back to the kaomojis, note that, even in their highly abstract form, they are capable of displaying emotions. In order of display, the kaomojis show happiness, indifference, love, dissatisfaction, and anger.

2018, Xuanyi Chew, “Basic Facial Detection”, in Go Machine Learning Projects: Eight Projects Demonstrating End-to-End Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics Applications in Go, Packt Publishing, page 276

Kaomojis are not used much in Western culture, but they are like emoticons except they can be read front-on and are from a fuller set of keyboard characters.

2019, Leo Palladino, Martin Green, Karen Roemuss, “Communication and working effectively in the industry”, in Professional Hairdressing and Barbering, Australian and New Zealand 2nd edition, Cengage Learning, page 170

A text-based Japanese emoticon, distinct from a Western emoticon in that it is not rotated sideways, and often includes a larger variety of characters (originally from Shift JIS, now including Unicode).


cyberagent

An agent operating on the Internet or in cyberspace.


Petersen's theorem

(graph theory) The theorem stating that every cubic bridgeless graph contains a perfect matching.


resliced

(computer graphics, of an image) calculated from the pixels in the original 3D data that are closest to a particular plane


PWI

Public Windows Interface
w:Public Windows Interface

(computing) Initialism of Public Windows Interface.

Perfect World International
w:Perfect World International

(video games) Initialism of Perfect World International.


RTMP

Real Time Messaging Protocol
w:Real Time Messaging Protocol

(computing) Initialism of Real Time Messaging Protocol.

Routing Table Maintenance Protocol
w:Routing Table Maintenance Protocol

(computing) Initialism of Routing Table Maintenance Protocol.


blocksize

(computing) The size of a block of data (in a file or a transmission)


autonomics

(computing) The use of self-correcting software systems that automatically detect and fix certain types of error without intervention by a software engineer.


hardwarily

(computing, slang, humorous, rare) In terms of hardware.


TIAS

(Internet, text messaging) Initialism of try it and see.


Twibel

The most notorious Twitter libel case, sometimes called Twibel cases, involved rocker Courtney Love.

2013, Robert Trager, Joseph Russomanno, Susan Dente Ross, The Law of Journalism and Mass Communication, page 154

Twitter, for example, has a structure (maximum 140 characters) that encourage such [quick, thoughtless] statements, leading to “twibel” actions.

2015, Serap Kurbanoglu, Sonja Spiranec, Esther Grassian, Information Literacy, page 105

(informal, neologism) libel in the form of postings on the Twitter microblogging service


gacha

en-noun

gacha (countable and uncountable, plural gachas)

From Japanese ガチャ (gacha), shortened form of ガチャポン (gachapon).

Since a loot table with ten rewards won’t last for long, the very first step in gacha design is to ensure that you have enough content to make gacha a viable monetization strategy.

2018, Ennio De Nucci, Adam Kramarzewski, Practical Game Design, page 394

Gacha mechanics are a powerful advantage monetization strategy in free-to-play games that have also been integrated into many premium titles on mobile devices, PCs, and consoles.

2020, Christopher A. Paul, Free-to-Play: Mobile Video Games, Bias, and Norms, MIT Press, page 112

(video games) A mechanism in certain video games, especially mobile games, whereby in-game items or characters are purchased randomly with real or in-game money.

(video games) A game which features this mechanic as its central feature.


FDS

Famicom Disk System
w:Famicom Disk System

(video games) Initialism of Famicom Disk System.


Cardan grille

Proposed in 1550 by Girolamo Cardano (1501-1576), known in French as Jérôme Cardan.

(cryptography) A sheet of card or thin metal, etc., used in composing secret messages. The words of the message are written through a number of holes cut arbitrarily in the sheet, and the remaining paper is then filled with irrelevant words to disguise it.


supermethod

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

(object-oriented programming) A method in a superclass that is overridden in a subclass.


DMF

DMF (countable and uncountable, plural DMFs)

distribution media format
distribution media format#English

(software, Windows) Initialism of distribution media format.


FGC

(fandom slang, video games) Initialism of fighting game community.


e-content

Finally, some e-content must first be downloaded to a computer before being transferred to a tablet or other mobile device for viewing.

2012, Rebecca K. Miller, Carolyn Meier, Heather Moorfield-Lang, Rethinking Reference and Instruction with Tablets, page 38

(computing) resources offered in computerized form


PDO

PDO (countable and uncountable, plural PDOs)

(software) Initialism of Persistent Data Object (data object not lost when the application exits)

Persistent Data Object

(software) Initialism of Persistent Domain Object (domain object not lost when the application exits)

Persistent Domain Object

(software) Initialism of PHP Data Object (a PHP extension to be used as a database abstraction layer)

PHP Data Object

(software) Initialism of Physical Device Object.

(software) Initialism of Python Data Object.


GTID

(computing, databases) Initialism of global transaction identifier.


SERP

Some are prepared to pay for placement; others use Search Engine Optimization (SEO) hoping their result percolates up the organic SERP.

2011, Jaroslav Pokorny, Vaclav Repa, Karel Richta, Wita Wojtkowski, Henry Linger, Chris Barry, Michael Lang, Information Systems Development: Business Systems and Services: Modeling and Development, Springer Science & Business Media, page 88

General search text ads are sold by general search engines, typically placed just above or below the organic search results on a SERP, and resemble the organic results that appear on a general search engine’s SERP, with a subtle notation that they are “ads” or “sponsored.”

(Internet) Initialism of search engine results page.


transitive dependency

transitive dependency (plural transitive dependencies)

(databases) An attribute of a relation that depends on a key but also on a third attribute which is not a key; this is a violation of third normal form.

(programming) In a computer program, library called by another dependency.


candidate key

(computing, databases) In the design of a database table, a column (or an irreducible group of them) able to identify every row of the table. One of the candidate keys (abbreviated CKs) will be the primary key.


spinbox

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface) Synonym of spinner (“interface element with arrowed buttons to select a value”)


mainspace

mainspace (countable and uncountable, plural mainspaces)

In the tutorial […] you see how to move your article from your personal space (the draft) to mainspace, where actual articles reside.

2008, John Broughton, Wikipedia: The Missing Manual, page 64

This groups together a majority of the site's content. There is no namespace prefix for the mainspace.

2010, Jeff Orlof, Mizanur Rahman, MediaWiki 1.1 Beginner's Guide

(Internet) The primary namespace of a wiki, excluding secondary content such as discussion pages.


virtual piano

(music, computing) An online software application designed to simulate playing a piano (or other keyboard instrument) on a personal computer, mobile device or a tablet computer.


go gold

en-verb

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

goes gold (present singular third-person)
going gold (participle present)
went gold (past)
gone gold (participle past)

(software) To be released to manufacturing in its final form, so that copies can be made and shipped.


rubber-band

rubber-band (third-person singular simple present rubber-bands, present participle rubber-banding, simple past and past participle rubber-banded)

rubber-bands (present singular third-person)
rubber-banding (participle present)
rubber-banded (participle past)
rubber-banded (past)

(video games) To keep a computer-controlled character within a limited distance of the player when racing, as if connected by an invisible rubber band.

(Internet video games) To move to a previous position due to network lag, as if being held back by a rubber band.


semi-complete

(mathematics, graph theory) of or pertaining to a graph in which, for any two verticies u, v in the graph, there is another vertex w which is adjacent to both u and v (i.e. u,w,v is a path in that graph).


beast mode

(slang, sports, video games) A high level of performance.


announcementware

(rare) A computer technology product (usually software) that has been announced but not yet shipped.


Semantic Web

Twine is based on technologies created for the developing semantic Web - foreseen as a smarter Web where machines may someday be able to process the meaning of words and phrases in documents and even routinely answer direct questions.

2008 February 1, Anne Eisenberg, “Twine ties things together on Web”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

(Internet) A proposed evolution of the World Wide Web whose pages have their subject matter formally encoded into them, without the need to rely on keyword phrases within the content.


prefix coding

A prefix coding can use a code with code words {9, 55}, as it has the prefix property. However, a code consisting of {9, 5, 59, 55} is not allowed, as "5" is a prefix of "59" and also of "55".

(computing theory) A coding system that uses (typically variable-length) codes that are distinguished by their "prefix property", which requires that there is no code word in the system that is a prefix (initial segment) of any other code word in the system.


Flasher

JavaScript is an appealing solution for Flashers because it operates in the same client-side environment […]

2001, P. S. Woods, Macromedia Flash 5 Developer's Guide, page 184

(computing, informal) A software developer who uses the Flash multimedia technology.


LRT

light rapid transit
light rapid transit#English

light rapid transport
light rapid transport#English

light rail transport
light rail transport#English

Initialism of light rail transit, light rapid transit, light rapid transport, light rail transport.

MRT

mass rapid transit, mass rail transit, metro rail transit

LRT: This is the art I was talking about earlier but was having trouble finding.


resub

resub (third-person singular simple present resubs, present participle resubbing, simple past and past participle resubbed)

resubs (present singular third-person)
resubbing (participle present)
resubbed (participle past)
resubbed (past)


air gap

The structure and design of Stuxnet confirms the Iranian air gap, as the attackers clearly designed Stuxnet to jump an air gap utilizing multiple methods.

2016, William D. Bryant, International Conflict and Cyberspace Superiority: Theory and Practice, Routledge, page 153

(networking, computer security) A network security measure that consists of ensuring that a secure computer network is physically isolated from unsecured networks, such as the public Internet or an unsecured local area network.


tweetstorm

The company sent a flood of tweets—actually, we ought to call it what it was, an epically disastrous tweetstorm—aimed squarely at journalist Nancy Jo Sales insisting that the app is about so much more than hooking up.

2015 August 11, Julia Greenberg, “Tinder completely freaked out on Twitter”, in Wired

(Internet) A series of tweets posted on the Twitter microblogging service in rapid succession.

(Internet) A storm of controversy arising from tweets posted on Twitter.


Toom-Cook algorithm

Named after Andrei Toom and Stephen Cook.

(computing theory) A multiplication algorithm that multiplies large integers by recursively splitting them into smaller parts and performing operations on the parts.


Karatsuba algorithm

en-noun

Karatsuba algorithm (plural Karatsuba algorithms)

Discovered by Anatolii Alexeevitch Karatsuba in 1960 and published in 1962.

(computing theory) A fast multiplication algorithm that reduces the multiplication of two n-digit numbers to at most n^(log ₂₃)≈n^(1.585) single-digit multiplications.


splay tree

(computing theory) A self-balancing binary search tree with the additional property that recently accessed elements are quick to access again.


Schönhage-Strassen algorithm

Developed by Arnold Schönhage and Volker Strassen in 1971.

(computing theory) An asymptotically fast recursive multiplication algorithm for large integers.


corpus linguistics

ESP, using the tools of corpus linguistics, has advanced the methodologies for investigating discipline-specific language, yet there has been little cross-fertilization so far with disciplinary literacy in secondary education.

2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Position vectors, homologous chromosomes and gamma rays: Promoting disciplinary literacy through Secondary Phrase Lists”, in English for Specific Purposes, →DOI, page 2

(computing, linguistics) A branch of linguistics that studies large samples (corpora) of real-world text, usually with the aid of computer software.

korpuslinguistiek

a branch of linguistics that studies large samples


cybernat

Clipping of cybernationalist as a play on cybernaut, said to have been coined by British politician George Foulkes, Baron Foulkes of Cumnock (born 1942): see the 5 July 2012 quotation.

He [Iain Gray] added: “Back in May I asked Alex Salmond to get a grip of these ‘cyber nats’ bloggers. At the time they were spreading rumours about me and other politicians as well. I think Alex Salmond has to come to parliament, apologise, and explain just exactly what has gone on.”

2009 November 29, “Parties Demand Salmond Holds Blog Smear Inquiry”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 2009-12-02

The time could not be more crucial, with the referendum on Scottish independence only two years away, and fears emerging that the war of words between so-called ‘cybernats’ and ‘cyberbrits’ could distort or even stifle mainstream political discourse. Labour peer Lord Foulkes claims crediting for coining the term cybernat to describe Nationalists and supporters of independence who conduct rhetorical guerrilla warfare on Twitter, Facebook and the comment threads of newspaper websites. Rather than initiating discussions about policy or ideas, cybernats demonise those opposed to the SNP and independence and dismiss them as, inter alia, cowardly, unpatriotic, and even traitorous.

2012 July 5, “Cybernats and Cyberbrits: How Do They Affect Mainstream Political Debate?: Scotland Tonight Discusses the Phenomenon of Abusive Online Comments and Attacks”, in STV, archived from the original on 2016-10-27

Currently, he [Craig Murray, former British ambassador to Uzbekistan] openly presents himself as a 'vauntie cybernat, former ambassador, and human rights activist', keeping him in sync with the alternative diplomatic culture he always practised, though he now freely engages in the everyday ambassadorship he once struggled to legitimate among his peers.

2015, Jason Dittmer, Fiona McConnell, editors, Diplomatic Cultures and International Politics: Translations, Spaces and Alternatives (Routledge New Diplomacy Studies), Abingdon, Oxon., New York, N.Y.: Routledge

The much-vaunted phenomenon of the "cybernat", spraying online vitriol from a dingy bedroom, does indubitably exist, but so does its exact equivalent on the opposite side.

2016, Mike Parker, “Caledonia Dreaming: September – December 2014”, in The Greasy Poll: Diary of a Controversial Election, Talybont, Ceredigion, Wales: Y Lolfa

(British, informal) A Scottish nationalist who takes part in Internet activism.


aLife

Alternative form of A-life (artificial life)


file handle

(computing) The descriptor used to access a file in a file system.


RSE

Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire
w:Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire

(fandom slang) Initialism of Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald.


subtweet

But it was also a subtweet, addressed to one person but meant for someone else entirely.

2014, Daleen Berry, Geoffrey Fuller, The Savage Murder of Skylar Neese

Curt texts, unanswered emails, Facebook statuses declaring “someone” to be an idiot, the notorious subtweet; if you can communicate with it, people can be passive aggressive with it.

2015 February 19, Dean Burnett, “OK, don't read this article about passive-aggressive behaviour. Honestly, it's fine”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

(social media) A tweet that refers to another user without tagging their name in the message, so that the user being talked about is not automatically notified.

(by extension) Any social media post of this type, regardless of which service it is posted on.


subtweet

en-verb

subtweet (third-person singular simple present subtweets, present participle subtweeting, simple past and past participle subtweeted)

subtweets (present singular third-person)
subtweeting (participle present)
subtweeted (participle past)
subtweeted (past)

Coordinate term: vaguebook

More often than not, they employed this term when referencing various teen dramas that occurred between friends and classmates that required insider knowledge to decode. In other words, teens subtweet to talk behind someone else's back.

2014, danah boyd, It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens (page 69)

A less subtle way of navigating the relationship between the public and the obscure is found in subtweeting or vaguebooking (vague facebooking), the art of posting elliptically about a social situation without naming names.

2019, Gretchen McCulloch, chapter 6, in Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, Riverhead Books

(social media) To post a message of this kind.


ISTQB

(software) Initialism of International Software Testing Qualifications Board.


tweetosphere

From tweet (“a Twitter post”) + -o- + -sphere.

affix

(Internet) The totality of users and messages on the Twitter microblogging service.


Twittersphere

In news stories that had the Twittersphere absolutely buzzing (there's no better word for it), two of America's largest casual restaurant brands—Applebee's and Olive Garden—managed, in separate incidents, to serve alcoholic beverages to a fifteen-month-old and a two-year-old, respectively (alcoholic margarita mix in a sippy cup to the fifteen-month-old; sangria to the two-year-old), between late March and early April 2011.

2012, Micah Solomon, High-Tech, High-Touch Customer Service: Inspire Timeless Loyalty in the Demanding New World of Social Commerce, AMACOM, published 2012, page 95

Following Benedict's departure, his successor, Francis, surged into the Twittersphere, sending several tweets weekly translated into nine different languages, even though he has admitted never having written anything but longhand and never having gotten used to writing on a computer.

2015, David Willey, The Promise of Francis: The Man, the Pope, and the Challenge of Change, Gallery Books, published 2015

I also expect their followers will be quick to pick up the activist causes, and spread these "good causes" widely across the Twittersphere, […]

2016, P. David Marshall, Sean Redmond, A Companion to Celebrity, Wiley Blackwell, published 2016, page 243


RESTafarian

The RESTafarians — or REST zealots — are probably right that a RESTful approach is best for retrieving information, but it is obviously inappropriate whenever the remote procedure call has side effects.

2005, David Paul Megginson, Imperfect XML: Rants, Raves, Tips, and Tricks, page 124

(computing, slang) A programmer who uses REST (Representational State Transfer).


iOS

From i- + OS. Many Apple products have an i- prefix in their names.

(computing, mobile telephony) A mobile operating system (OS) created and developed by Apple Inc. exclusively for its hardware.


builtin

„If FUNCTION is a string starting with CORE::, the rest is taken as a name for a Perl builtin. If the builtin's arguments cannot be adequately expressed by a prototype (such as system), prototype() returns undef, because the builtin does not really behave like a Perl function. Otherwise, the string describing the equivalent prototype is returned.“

2015 February 26 (last accessed), “prototype”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name) (HTML), perldoc.perl.org

(software) Clipping of builtin function.


Big Four

(historical) The four top Allied powers of World War I and their leaders: David Lloyd George of Britain, Georges Clemenceau of France, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando of Italy and Woodrow Wilson of the United States, who met at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 at Versailles.


pass by reference

(software) Alternative form of call-by-reference


call by value

(programming) Alternative form of call-by-value


pass by value

(programming) Alternative form of call by value


call by reference

(programming) Alternative form of call-by-reference


Veblen's theorem

(graph theory) A theorem stating that the set of edges of a finite graph can be written as a union of disjoint simple cycles if and only if every vertex has even degree.


prefix tree

(computing theory) Synonym of trie (“data structure”)


Ore's theorem

Proved in 1960 by Norwegian mathematician Øystein Ore.

(graph theory) A theorem that considers the sum of the degrees of pairs of non-adjacent vertices: if every such pair has a sum that at least equals the total number of vertices in the graph, then the graph is Hamiltonian.


PVS

potentially visible set
potentially visible set#English

(computer graphics) Abbreviation of potentially visible set.


trollage

/ˈtɹəʊlɪd͡ʒ/

(Internet, informal) trolling (making inflammatory posts or comments to annoy others on the Internet)


jiggle physics

As devotees of advanced jiggle physics, we cannot condone any fighting game in which the biggest boobs belong to an unemployed plumber.

2008, Complex Magazine and Guide, Volume 7, Issues 1-3, page 178

Do adult video games have no more to contribute to the medium than "jiggle physics" (as Brenda Brathwaite calls it)?

2010, Patchen Barss, The Erotic Engine: How Pornography Has Powered Mass Communication from Gutenberg to Google, Anchor Canada, published 2011, page 235

I'd like to think the good people of Tecmo devoted an entire lab to testing jiggle physics, but, sadly, the bouncing isn't anywhere close to realistic. Still, there's something about the sway of a woman's breasts that leaves our very souls souls oscillating, scintillating, and reverberating into a world of happy.

2012, Aaron Santos, Ballparking: Practical Math for Impractical Sports Questions, Running Press, page 130

(video games, humorous) The art of portraying the bouncing or swaying of breasts on a 3D model of a woman.


first-class continuation

en-noun

first-class continuation (plural first-class continuations)

Bruce F. Duba, David Macqueen (1991 January) “Typing First-Class Continuations in ML”, in Journal of Functional Programming, volume 3, number 4, →DOI: “First-class continuations are a simple and natural way to provide access to the flow of evaluation in functional languages.”

(computing) A continuation that can be used like any other value in a programming language, giving a powerful ability to control flow of execution.


ASI

ASI (countable and uncountable, plural ASIs)

(programming, uncountable) Initialism of automatic semicolon insertion.

Coordinate term: AGI

artificial superintelligence
artificial superintelligence#English

(countable, artificial intelligence) Initialism of artificial superintelligence.


AGI

AGI (countable and uncountable, plural AGIs)

Coordinate term: (artificial superintelligence) ASI

AGIs will indeed be capable of self-awareness – but that is because they will be General: they will be capable of awareness of every kind of deep and subtle thing, including their own selves.

2012 October 3, David Deutsch, “Philosophy will be the key that unlocks artificial intelligence”, in The Guardian

If AI researchers do eventually manage to make the leap to AGI, there is little reason to believe that the result will be a machine that simply matches human-level intelligence.

2015, Martin Ford, The Rise of the Robots, Oneworld

Some of my friends have recently reported to me that when people outside the AI industry hear about extinction risk from Artificial General Intelligence for the first time, their reaction is “maybe we should not build AGI, then.”

2023 March 29, Eliezer Yudkowsky, “The Open Letter on AI Doesn't Go Far Enough”, in Time

artificial general intelligence
artificial general intelligence#English

(artificial intelligence) Initialism of artificial general intelligence.


AGI

Adventure Game Interpreter
w:Adventure Game Interpreter

(video games) Initialism of Adventure Game Interpreter, a game engine developed by Sierra On-Line.


lagfest

The only place I ever seriously lagged was at the blacksmith shop. Now all of Britain is a lagfest.

1998 January 28, Spatch [username], “Re: *Please Read*”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games (Usenet)

Cities are lagfests if there are a lot of other players nearby.

2009 July 27, cryptoguy [username], “Re: Intermittent FPS drops”, in alt.games.warcraft (Usenet)

Full screen is a lagfest. I don't think you're going to be gaming on these, unless the technology got heaps better whilst I wasn't looking.

2011 June 15, HarpingOn [username], “Re: OT: USB graphics "cards"”, in uk.games.video.misc (Usenet)

(computing, informal) Something prone to lagging, or network delays.


completionism

(video games) The goal of achieving every objective in a game, as opposed to merely doing enough to win.


JQL

(computing) Initialism of JIRA Query Language.


T-SQL

(computer languages, databases) Clipping of Transact-SQL.


PL/SQL

(computer languages) Initialism of Procedural Language/Structured Query Language.


concave function

concave function (plural concave functions)

(computer science) The negative of the convex function.


convex function

convex function (plural convex functions)

(computer science) A mathematical function where the line segment between any two points on the graph of the function lies above the graph in a vector space of at least two dimensions.


set function

(computer science) A mathematical function whose input is a set (usually of real numbers or a set of points in the Euclidean or some measure space), and whose output is usually a number.


dropbox

A desktop computer leaves changes in a dropbox on the network.

1997, Alison Balter, Alison Balter's Mastering Access 97 Development, Sams Publishing, page 696

(computing) A computer folder to which files may be dragged and dropped and from which users of other computers on the network can access those files.


riskware

(computing, rare) software that may pose a risk to a computer on which it is installed


Itanic

Blend of Itanium + Titanic, suggesting commercial failure, in reference to the sunken ship Titanic.

(computing, slang, derogatory) The Intel Itanium processor.


cruftiness

Regardless of one's opinions on Sendmail's cruftiness, it's unquestionably a powerful and well-supported piece of software.

2002, Michael D. Bauer, Building Secure Servers with Linux, page 205

(computing, slang) Quality of being crufty.


static scoping

(programming) The property of being statically scoped.


statically scoped

(programming) Of an identifier: having its scope limited to the block of source code text declares or defines the identifier.


logic programming

(programming) Programming with a paradigm that bases on formal logic


object-based language

object-based language (plural object-based languages)

In practice, the term "object-based" is usually applied to those object-based languages that are not also object-oriented, although all object-oriented languages are also object-based, by definition. Instead, the terms "object-based" and "object-oriented" are normally used as mutually exclusive alternatives, rather than as categories that overlap.

programming language
programming language

(computing) Any programming language that encapsulates the state and operations inside objects that may or may not support inheritance.


macro language

(computing) A system for defining and processing macros.

(computing, specifically) An extension to an assembly language in which macroinstructions, containing a series of instructions, may be written.


delegation language

delegation language (plural delegation languages)

prototype-based programming
prototype-based programming

(computing) A programming language that supports prototype-based programming.


aspect-oriented programming language

aspect-oriented programming language (plural aspect-oriented programming languages)

aspect-oriented programming languages (plural)

aspect-oriented language
aspect-oriented language#English

(computing) Synonym of aspect-oriented language


prototype-based language

prototype-based language (plural prototype-based languages)

(computing) A programming language in which behaviour reuse (or inheritance) is performed via cloning existing objects that serve as prototypes.


(computing) Initialism of ECMAScript for XML (the ECMA-357 standard)


role-oriented language

role-oriented language (plural role-oriented languages)

(computing) A programming language that uses a paradigm aiming at expressing things in terms analogous to human conceptual understanding of the World by using roles.


aspect-oriented language

aspect-oriented language (plural aspect-oriented languages)

separation of cross-cutting concerns
separation of concerns

(computing) A programming language that aims to increase modularity by allowing the separation of cross-cutting concerns.


type conversion

type conversion (countable and uncountable, plural type conversions)

(software) changing an entity from one datatype to another according to explicit or implicit rules.


type coercion

type coercion (countable and uncountable, plural type coercions)

(software) changing an entity from one data type to another according to explicit or implicit rules.


routing leak

(Internet) The situation where the internal routing table of a network provider is broadcast externally to peered networks via Border Gateway Protocol (usually caused by an error in a boundary router), resulting in incorrectly routed internet traffic for external networks which accept the new routing instruction into their own routing tables.


Pythonist

Pythonists and Perlers probably doesn't feel that Ruby (on or off Rails) is sufficiently different from what they're currently doing to warrant stepping down the expert ladder.

2005 February 7, David Heinemeier Hansson, “Re: Is compatibility important for us?”, in comp.lang.ruby (Usenet)

We Pythonists have always prided ourselves in being the best example of an end-to-end, batteries-included delivery system that could create anything imaginable for the desktop user.

2008, Dana Moore, Professional Python Frameworks: Web 2.0 Programming with Django and Turbogears

If you're a Python guru, you can look for ideas to apply your craft to penetration testing, or if you are a newbie Pythonist with some penetration testing chops, then this module serves as a perfect ending to your search for some hands-on experience in pentesting.

2016, Christopher Duffy, Mohit,, Cameron Buchanan, Terry Ip, Andrew Mabbitt, Benjamin May, Dave Mound, Python: Penetration Testing for Developers, Packt Publishing Ltd

(computing, informal) A programmer who uses the Python programming language.


MTE

(Internet, text messaging) my thoughts exactly: an expression of agreement


MSS

Microsoft Search Server (enterprise search)


FHS

Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
w:Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

(computing) Initialism of Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.


unpythonic

en-adj

unpythonic (comparative more unpythonic, superlative most unpythonic)

more unpythonic (comparative)
most unpythonic (superlative)

(programming) Not following the idioms of the Python programming language.


NAC

(computing) Initialism of network access control.


click of death

(computing, informal) A clicking sound produced by the unexpected movement of the read-write actuator in a Zip drive or hard drive, associated with hardware failure.


webvertising

(Internet, dated) advertising on the World Wide Web


SID

If the call to this function fails, you can assume the SID was invalid — even if it's a well-known SID.

2003, John Mueller, .NET development security solutions

(computing, Microsoft Windows) Abbreviation of security identifier.

(computing) Sound Interface Device, a sound chip used in some early computers.


unchecked exception

en-noun

unchecked exception (plural unchecked exceptions)

(programming) An exception that is not declared in the signature of a method, but results in an abort with a stack trace.

unüberprüfte Ausnahme

an exception that has to be declared in the signature of the method that may raise it


recam

en-verb

recam (third-person singular simple present recams, present participle recamming, simple past and past participle recammed)

recams (present singular third-person)
recamming (participle present)
recammed (participle past)
recammed (past)

Having “wondered if maybe we could alter the camera position in our demos to make them more movie-like to watch”, Bailey used Remaic to create a new recammed version of the speedrun.

2007, Andy Clarke, Grethe Mitchell, Videogames and Art, page 71

For Marino (2004), the development of recamming tools and the subsequent dissociation of camera and POV in postproduction, marks the 'defining moment' for Machinima.

2008, James Newman, Playing with Videogames, page 146

Replays captured as demo movies have been circulated as skills demonstrations, as recordings of significant competitive events (i.e., Thresh's defeat of Billox at Quakedelica in 1998, circulated as a recammed highlight reel) […]

2011, Henry Lowood, Michael Nitsche, The Machinima Reader, page 7

(video games, transitive) To recreate (a recording of gameplay in a three-dimensional playfield) with different camera positioning and movement from the original camera that followed the player's viewpoint.


recam

(video games) A recreated gameplay recording of this kind.


VRAM

random access memory
random access memory#English

graphics processing unit
graphics processing unit#English

(computing) Initialism of video random access memory (random access memory used by graphics processing units)

video random access memory

(programming) video memory (an area of a computer's memory used to hold data used by a graphics processing unit)

Using the hardware blitter to move bitmaps from VRAM to VRAM is much faster than moving them from system memory to VRAM.

2002, André LaMothe, Tricks of the Windows Game Programming Gurus, page 315

Video RAM
wikipedia:Video RAM (dual-ported DRAM)

(computing) Initialism of Video RAM (a variant of DRAM invented in 1980 and used to store the framebuffer in some graphics adapters)


growlf

(Internet, furry subculture) Expressing mild aggression or irritation.


e-tutoring

tutoring via electronic media, especially the Internet


ill-formed

en-adj

ill-formed (comparative more ill-formed, superlative most ill-formed)

more ill-formed (comparative)
most ill-formed (superlative)

(linguistics, computing) Not well-formed.


classical inheritance

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

(object-oriented programming) concept of inheritance where parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclasses


UAC

User Account Control
w:en:User Account Control

(computing, Microsoft Windows) Initialism of User Account Control: a technology that limits application software to standard user privileges until an administrator authorizes further privileges.


Woz

Norton snapped his fingers. Monday's Warren's birthday. That's what I'll do. We'll get a couple of sheilas and I'll shout Woz out for dinner.

2016, Robert G. Barrett, The Boys from Binjiwunyawunya


Woz

(informal) Nickname for a person with the surname Wozniak.

(informal) American inventor Steve Wozniak.


glass cannon

From the fact that they are powerful (similar to a cannon) yet are easily breakable (similar to glass).

Deep elves die easier than most other races - glass cannons to an extreme extent.

2009 May 23, Eugene Barrett, “Re: DCSS:: need advice”, in rec.games.roguelike.misc (Usenet)

A min-maxer might create a "glass cannon" character—one with lots of awesome offenses but next to no defense.

2012, Lizzie Stark, Leaving Mundania: Inside the Transformative World of Live Action Role-Playing Games, Chicago Review Press, page 238

Now, both sides had built up their fleet quite extensively with very fast, kind of glass cannon-type destroyers and cruisers in the run-up to the war, buuut the French fleet, at the beginning of World War II, was very definitely - below capital ships, was very definitely a fleet of glass cannons, whereas the Italians, although they had their own share of them, had a number of pretty good designs, like the Zara-class heavy cruisers, so, in destroyers and cruisers, I think the Italians definitely have a qualitative advantage, at least for a good portion of their ships[…]

2018 December 9, Drachinifel, 21:35 from the start, in The Drydock - Episode 019, archived from the original on 2022-09-10

(especially roleplaying games, board games, video games) A character or unit with strong offensive power but weak defensive capabilities.

especially roleplaying games; board games; especially roleplaying games; board games


collect-'em-up

Modelled on earlier shoot-'em-up and beat-'em-up.

Mix together a shoot-’em-up, a collect-’em-up and a maze game, add sundry reaction tests to taste and you’ve got a tasty game indeed.

1988, Firefly (game review) in CRASH magazine (issue 50)

It's a scrolling, platform, arcade collect-'em-up adventure which shows off the SNES well, and not one you'll complete on the first couple of attempts!

1993, Neil West, Nick Roberts, Super NES Games Unauthorized Power Tips Book

In the beginning there were no genres. There was only a small number of games, most of which looked very different. As more games appeared you could perhaps begin to classify them: spaceship games, collect-'em-ups, and so on.

2012, Clive Fencott, Jo Clay, Mike Lockyer, Game Invaders: The Theory and Understanding of Computer Games

(video games) A video game based around collecting items.


forecolour

This marking is often done by setting the forecolour of the control.

2009, David Harrison, ated Functional Testing for Java-Swing

(computing) A prominent colour, especially one that is superimposed and visible over other colours.


Squeenix

(informal, humorous, video games) Square Enix, a Japanese video game development company


working set

(computing theory) The amount of memory required by a process in a given time interval.


dot release

From dot (the decimal point in a version number) + release.

(computing, programming) Synonym of point release.


multitenancy

(computing) The situation in which a single instance of software, running in a server, serves multiple tenants


imperative programming

(programming) a programming paradigm that describes the computation in statements


declarative programming

(programming) a programming paradigm that expresses the logic of a computation instead of its control flow


failscade

(Internet slang, video games, neologism) The quick and unexpected demise of a large online social group.


failscade

en-verb

failscade (third-person singular simple present failscades, present participle failscading, simple past and past participle failscaded)

failscades (present singular third-person)
failscading (participle present)
failscaded (participle past)
failscaded (past)

(Internet slang, video games) To cause or undergo the quick demise of or as a large online social group.


MFW

(Internet slang) Initialism of my face when ....


Mandelbox

(computer graphics) A multidimensional fractal with a box-like shape, defined in a similar way to the Mandelbrot set.


nerd pole

That guy is such a noob! Why would he use a nerd pole to get up there? Doesn't he know how to use ladders?

(video games, slang) Any tall, thin structure, usually only a few blocks wide, built in a voxel-based video game, especially one constructed by jumping and placing blocks beneath one's avatar.


nerd pole

nerd pole (third-person singular simple present nerd poles, present participle nerd poling, simple past and past participle nerd poled)

nerd poles (present singular third-person)
nerd poling (participle present)
nerd poled (participle past)
nerd poled (past)

Quick! Don't bother with ladders; just nerd pole up to me!

(video games, slang, intransitive) To build a nerd pole, especially for the purpose of getting to higher ground.


questline

Now, to continue with this questline, go head back home (or a secure bed somewhere) and sleep for awhile (I slept for 24 hours, just to be sure).

2015, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Strategy Guide, unnumbered page

The cue appears about two-thirds of the way through the game's main questline.

2019, Michiel Kamp, Mark Sweeney, “Musical Landscapes in Skyrim”, in Steven Reale, William Gibbons, editors, Music in the Role-Playing Game: Heroes & Harmonies, unnumbered page

Not only does his personal questline make little sense if he is engaged in a romance with a female player, but it actively goes against the wishes of the character on a fundamental level.

2020, Jessica Hylton, “LGBTYQIA Inclusion in Dragon Age: Inquisition: Burning Down Stereotypes and Modding for Representation”, in Bridget Whelan, Matthew Wilhelm Kapell, editors, Women and Video Game Modding: Essays on Gender and the Digital Community, page 85

(video games) A storyline consisting of a number of linked quests.


ray marching

(computer graphics) An advanced form of ray tracing in which the imaginary light rays are not merely computed where they intersect with solid parts of the model, but also sampled and modified as they pass through space.


JSTL

(computing, Java programming language) Initialism of JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library.


adlet

5 Merging of Adlets
Adlets move from sites to sites to seek out new adlets or active documents, announce its own presence and collect information. In its movement adlets behave like magnets. An adlet or a collection of adlets can attract other ...

1998, IEEE Computer Society. Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing, Information Technology Research Institute (Dayton, Ohio), IEEE Computer Society. Technical Committee on Data Engineering, IW-MMDBMS ...

In our example, an adlet is created to perform the airline reservation. Such an adlet is equipped with the capability to interact with the airline reservation system and issue transactions to obtain available flights, seats and prices.

1999, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Leszek Maciaszek, Proceedings, ... International Workshop on Research Issues in Data Engineering, IEEE

The specific mobile agents of interest are called adlets, which are mobile agents carrying the metadata of various kinds of multimedia documents. Adlets autonomously travel from site to site on the Internet, advertising its contents and ...

2000, Tamkang Journal of Science and Engineering

(computing) A small app or active document that can be embedded in a Web page.


combo breaker

(video games) In fighting games, a specific move that prevents the opponent from completing a combo.


split key

As with B+-trees, records with keys greater than or equal to the split key go to a new current node, records with keys less than the split key remain in the original node.

1990, Hector Garcia-Molina, H. V. Jagadish, Proceedings of the 1990 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data., page 353

The region is split into two logical daughter regions. The split is not done physically at this point to make the splitting process fast. The split is maintained as a split key, which is a key in the middle of the key range maintained for the region.

2014, Jason Venner, Sameer Wadkar, Madhu Siddalingaiah, Pro Apache Hadoop, page 310

Take the key in the parent node that splits the left sibling and the leaf, the split key, and insert it into the leaf.

2016, Christopher G. Healey, Disk-Based Algorithms for Big Data

(computing) A key value used to identify where to split the children of a parent node in a B-tree or similar data structure.

Moreover, even those systems (such as split key systems) that can decrease these risks, do so with a marked increase in cost.

1997, Cryptography and Privacy Sourcebook, page 15

A toolkit for split key cryptography in and of itself is (almost) a byproduct of developing ultra-high assurance applications such as root certifying authorities.

2007, Matt Blaze, Financial Cryptography, page 233

Camenisch et al. [CCGS10] define, among other things, split key exchange and give a construction based on the decisional Diffie-Hellman assumption.

2014, Michel Abdalla, Roberto De Prisco, Security and Cryptography for Networks, page 45

(cryptography) A cryptographic key that is divided into two or more values that individually cannot be used to deduce the entire key.


wikiquette

(Internet) The etiquette dictating how one should behave when working on a wiki.


keyboard warrior

en-noun

keyboard warrior (plural keyboard warriors)

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Others are newer converts who have only a vague idea how it all connects. There are law-abiding keyboard warriors as well as violent, unhinged radicals.

2021 January 17, Kevin Roose, “A QAnon ‘Digital Soldier’ Marches On, Undeterred by Theory’s Unraveling”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

(informal, derogatory) A person who behaves aggressively or in an inflammatory manner in online textbased discussion media, but at the same time does not behave similarly in real life, potentially due to cowardice, introversion or shyness.


hot-pluggable

(computing) That can be safely plugged in while the system is turned on and running.


ACG

Underwurlde is definitely Ultimate’s best game yet. It has super sound and graphics, as you would expect from ACG […]

1984, Underwurlde (game review) in Crash (issue 12)

Chris and Tim Stamper set up a game company called Ashby Computer Graphics (ACG) and began publishing games for the Sinclair Spectrum, a tiny computer that sold very well in Europe but never caught on in the United States.

2010, Steven Kent, The Ultimate History of Video Games

Ashby Computers & Graphics
w:Ashby Computers & Graphics

(video games, historical) Initialism of Ashby Computers & Graphics: a British video game developer.


minidisk

Standard digital recording techniques are used with floppy disks rather than audio recording techniques. A smaller 5-inch-diameter disk, referred to as a minidisk, is also available. Data-storage capacity is typically 70,000 to 100,000 bytes.

1978, Louis E. Frenzel, Getting Acquainted with Microcomputers, page 239

From minidisks, floppy disks, all the way to high-capacity hard disks, the flexibility of CP/M 2.0 makes it a truly universal operating system.

(computing, dated) A 5.25-inch floppy disk.


Ninty

Ninty have missed the boat this Xmas in the 20 something bracket, Starfox Adventures is not going to convince people to buy a gamecube.

2002, SteveC, “Xbox PS2 or Gamecube”, in uk.games.video.xbox (Usenet)

With the Gameboy, Gameboy Color and Gameboy Advance systems, 'Ninty' had lorded it over the competition […]

2009, India Today, volume 34, numbers 1-8, page 466

Certainly, hearing that the 'Queues to get just 20 minutes with the shiny new Ninty handheld stretched for hours' reassure us that even games journalists at trade shows with copy deadlines are prepared to wait in line for their few minutes with the new device […]

2012, James Newman, Best Before: Videogames, Supersession and Obsolescence, page 62

(video games, slang) The video game company Nintendo.


autokick

en-verb

autokick (third-person singular simple present autokicks, present participle autokicking, simple past and past participle autokicked)

autokicks (present singular third-person)
autokicking (participle present)
autokicked (participle past)
autokicked (past)

(Internet, IRC, transitive) To kick (a user) from an IRC channel automatically.


hot folder

(computing) A file system directory which is monitored by software so that any new files arriving in it can be processed.


class-based

(programming) Structured by defining classes of objects.


prototype-based

(programming) making inheritance possible by cloning objects instead of instantiating them from classes


CNN

convolutional neural network
convolutional neural network#English

(machine learning) Initialism of convolutional neural network.


flowcharter

While flowcharters have their own problems, they do accurately represent the program and ease the maintenance programmer's task.

1981, Theodore C. Willoughby, Business Systems, page 144

A software program that generates flow charts.


Trololo

Onomatopoeia of how Eduard Khil vocalized "Я очень рад, ведь я, наконец, возвращаюсь домой (Ja očenʹ rad, vedʹ ja, nakonec, vozvraščajusʹ domoj)".

(Internet, neologism, informal) Eduard Khil's vocalized recording of the song "Я очень рад, ведь я, наконец, возвращаюсь домой (Ja očenʹ rad, vedʹ ja, nakonec, vozvraščajusʹ domoj)" and its accompanying music video, which has risen into a meme.


memester

He introduces such colorful and potentially significant groups as the Immediast Underground, Paper Tiger TV, and the merry 'memesters' who have taken the media revolution to the neurons of the worldbrain.

1996, Douglas Rushkoff, quoted on the praise page, in Media Virus!: Hidden Agendas in Popular Culture, Ballantine Books (1996; originally published 1995), unnumbered page

The conflict between the memesters and the creators of the source material ended with the creators throwing up their hands in defeat. It was simply impossible for YouTube to keep the stuff down.

2011, Cole Stryker, Epic Win for Anonymous: How 4chan's Army Conquered the Web, The Overlook Press

Not all these photo pranks are as simple as planking: In stocking, memesters choose a banal stock photo and try to re-create it as faithfully as possible.

2011 October 30, Erin McKean, “Let’s go owling!”, in The Boston Globe

A person who creates or enjoys memes, especially Internet ones.


game controller

en-noun

game controller (plural game controllers)

(video games) Any of various hardware devices designed to allow the user to provide input to video games.


spam killer

(computing, informal) A program that automatically deletes spam (unsolicited commercial email).


podcatch

en-verb

podcatch (third-person singular simple present podcatches, present participle podcatching, simple past and past participle podcatched)

podcatches (present singular third-person)
podcatching (participle present)
podcatched (participle past)
podcatched (past)

(rare, Internet) To download and listen to a podcast.


Pit of Voles

pit + of + voles, from the site's reputation in fandom as being filled with amateurish and poorly-written stories.

[…] I have comparatively little spare time compared to what I'd like, and what fanfiction reading I've been doing has tended to be in the less ugly depths of the Pit of VOles.

2009 January 4, The Wanderer [username], “Re: AFSM Purpose? (was Re: Tokyo Trip Photos)”, in alt.fan.sailor-moon (Usenet)

This was my utter last choice as a posting avenue, because it's such an incredible pain in the butt to post here, compared to anywhere else, whether it's LJ, my website, a messageboard or even the Pit of Voles.

2009 March 3, KKGlinka [username], “Re: Not Quite Off-Topic: ASC and the ASC Awards”, in alt.startrek.creative (Usenet)

And in the ultimate case of inception-ism, the Pit of Voles is already up to 24 submissions of _Fangirl_ fanfic. Haven't checked Archive of Our Own yet... :-P

2014 January 21, Chrysti Cat, “Re: FANGIRL by Rainbow Rowell”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet)

(fandom slang, derogatory) The online fan fiction archive FanFiction.net.


warbot

A warbot is designed for use against other users or against IRC itself. Bots meant to do harm are one reason why many servers have banned their presence.

1995, William J. Shefski, Interactive Internet: The Insider's Guide to MUDs, MOOs and IRC

(Internet) A malicious bot (automated user) designed to disrupt other users' activity.


smartmodem

From the trade name of a product, the Hayes Smartmodem; from smart + modem.

Finally, some modems, and most smartmodems, come equipped with a row of status lights on the front of the modem, which make it easy to see what it is doing.

1989, Patrick R. Dewey, Email for Libraries

In the previous section, we discussed the two basic types of modems, smartmodems and acoustic coupled modems. Remember that smartmodems require they be plugged directly into the phone line.

1992, American Congress on Surveying and Mapping, American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Technical papers, page 259

The M2DM system comprised a Web access, a CTI service based on an Interactive Voice response system and a smartmodem located at home. The Web pages were optimized for different access modalities, including mobile devices.

2007, Tomaz Jarm, Peter Kramar, Anze Zupanic, 11th Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing 2007, page 16

(computing) A modem controlled through a simple command language, rather than by manual switches.


countertroll

(Internet) Someone who trolls in response to an original troll.


countertroll

countertroll (third-person singular simple present countertrolls, present participle countertrolling, simple past and past participle countertrolled)

countertrolls (present singular third-person)
countertrolling (participle present)
countertrolled (participle past)
countertrolled (past)

(Internet) To troll in response to an original troll.


longword

(computing) A type of unsigned integer variable that is longer than a word (with the specific number of bits depending upon the system architecture).


subpalette

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface) An on-screen display of user-selectable tools that makes up part of a larger such display.


Shitler

(informal, slang, derogatory, online gaming) A person acting in a particularly obnoxious and/or disruptive manner; a troll in online forums or a griefer in multiplayer games.


ASTQB

(software, testing) Initialism of American Software Testing Qualifications Board.


ISEB

(software, testing) Initialism of Information Systems Examination Board.


ITB

(software, testing) Initialism of Indian Testing Board.


dot-coma

The lackluster debuts were part of an overall dot-coma that hit the Internet sector in trading yesterday. Amazon.com, RealNetworks, Go2Net, InfoSpace.com and many other of the area's Internet stocks each dropped a few dollars by the close of trading.

1999 July 31, Helen Jung, “Two Strikes For Net Ipos -- Tech Investors Can't Count On A Home Run”, in The Seattle Times

Clearly, eSpeed's connection to Cantor is a unique insurance policy, assuring it won't end up in a dot-coma.

2001, Business Week, numbers 3744-3750, page 360

And if Sweden is coming out of its dot-coma, then so should the rest of the high-tech world.

2002 May 12, “Out Of The Dot-Coma”, in Newsweek

(slang) The collapse of a dot-com or of the dot-com bubble.


dot-commiserate

dot-commiserate (third-person singular simple present dot-commiserates, present participle dot-commiserating, simple past and past participle dot-commiserated)

dot-commiserates (present singular third-person)
dot-commiserating (participle present)
dot-commiserated (participle past)
dot-commiserated (past)

An Internet marketing firm called Thehiredguns.com sponsors pink-slip parties where casualties can get together and "dot-commiserate."

2000 August 20, Abby Ellin, “If at First You Don't Succeed, Celebrate!”, in The New York Times

Failure became a buzz word when the dotcom bubble burst in the late Nineties. Many paper millionaires instantly became part of the "90 per cent club" (people who had lost 90 per cent of their wealth, or more). The casualties got together and "dot-commiserated".

2003 July 29, Helen Kirwan-Taylor, “Rock bottom? We're on a high”, in The Telegraph

(The original, ancestral pink slip parties date to 1910, but became known to modern-day workers in the late 1990s, when downsized tech sector employees got together to dot-commiserate.)

2009 April 1, Gendy Alimurung, “Pink Slip Parties in L.A.: Laid Off but Not Out”, in LA Weekly

(slang, historical) To seek solace with other people left jobless by the dot-com bubble collapse.


dot-carnage

The dot-carnage extends even to Internet companies still in business.

2002 December 29, John Moran, “Hot sales, sour stocks and other technology highlights of 2002”, in The Spokesman-Review

Given the dot-carnage of the past few years, it's only natural that runs like those, when connected to companies associated with the Net, would leave investors pondering the dreaded B word: bubble.

2003 September 1, Yuval Rosenberg, “E-Stocks Rise Again After a stomach-turning descent, Internet stocks have come racing back--this time with profits. We've found three that can go higher.”, in Fortune

Mika Salmi's atomfilms.com survived the dot-carnage and is thriving on broadband

2006, Business Week, numbers 3974-3981, page 115

(slang) The results of the dot-com bubble collapse, which included the closure of many Internet-based businesses, and significant financial losses for others.


pentester

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This book is suitable for the following readers: ... Web security pentesters who need to communicate secure coding techniques to developers they are working with

2014, Iron-Clad Java: Building Secure Web Applications, page xvii

penetration test
penetration test#English

(computing) Someone who performs a pentest (a penetration test)


sociometer

Capable of sensing subtle movements as well as other unconscious and nonconscious signals, the sociometer creates, in effect, a feedback loop between consciousness and other levels of neuronal responses.

2012, N. Katherine Hayles, How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis, University of Chicago Press, page 102

(computing) A wearable sensor device to measure face-to-face interactions of people.


diamond bracket

en-noun

diamond bracket (plural diamond brackets)

From the diamond shape when two are placed together.


control point

(computer graphics) Any of a series of points defining the shape of a curve etc.

apoga punkto

computer graphics: point defining shape of a curve

(video games) A designated location on the game map which competing players or teams attempt to capture.


tweetaholic

From tweet (“an entry posted on Twitter”) + -aholic.

suffix

You're coming up with 140-character zingers, and the song is still four minutes long ... I realized about a year ago that I couldn't have a complete though anymore. And I was a tweetaholic.

2011, John Mayer, quoted in Rena Bivens, Digital Currents: How Technology and the Public are Shaping TV News, University of Toronto Press (2014), page 17

I know, not everyone is a tweetaholic like me, and not everyone can devote a good chunk of their day to Twitter.

2012, Scott Stretten, chapter 16, in UnMarketing: Stop Marketing. Start Engaging, Wiley & Sons, Inc., page 58

The whole group admits to being tweetaholics, but Louis says that he is the one who is following the most 1D fans.

2012, Anne Raso, One Direction, Andrews McMeel Publishing, page 65

(slang) A heavy user of the Twitter microblogging service; a person addicted to tweeting.


web color

(Internet) Any color, typically specified as an RGB triplet or in hexadecimal format, that can be displayed on a web page


CTFL

(software, testing) Initialism of Certified Tester Foundation Level.


CTAL

(software, testing) Initialism of Certified Tester Advanced Level.


system operator

en-noun

system operator (plural system operators)

(computing) A person who oversees the day-to-day operation of a computer system


macro expansion

macro expansion (plural macro expansions)

(computing) The source code (assembler or other language) created by interpretation of a macro


dwg

(file format) A vector drawing file generated with AutoCAD.