duocase

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Coordinate term: monocase

Before the introduction of the IBM 1050, printing terminals had been limited to single case capability. But the use of an electric typewriter on the 1050 would give the capability of duocase printing—capital letters and small letters. This duocase capability was held to be a very significant marketing factor.

1980, Charles E. McKenzie, “The Size and Structure of PTTC” (chapter 6), in Coded Character Sets: History and Development (The Systems Programming Series), Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 106:

(computing, typography, rare) Supporting or consisting of both uppercase and lowercase letters.


Jackintosh

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Blend of Jack + Macintosh, in reference to Atari Corporation founder Jack Tramiel, and the computer's similarities to the Apple Macintosh.

(computing, slang, historical) The Atari 520ST microcomputer.


Chaitin's algorithm

(computing theory) A bottom-up graph coloring register allocation algorithm that uses cost/degree as its spill metric.


bitstarve

en-verb

bitstarve (third-person singular simple present bitstarves, present participle bitstarving, simple past and past participle bitstarved)

bitstarves (present singular third-person)
bitstarving (participle present)
bitstarved (participle past)
bitstarved (past)

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This is why bit-starved transmission streams yield a very blocky appearance. They reveal the blocky structure because the fine detail is lost and that prevents the edges of the macroblocks from merging into one another perfectly.

2005, Cliff Wootton, A Practical Guide to Video and Audio Compression: From Sprockets and Rasters to Macroblocks, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 206:

I had Dish for years, ditched them when they couldn't get me HD equipment in
a timely manner and insisted on charging me $3 if I didn't hook my equipment
to a phone line. WTF! Went to Comcast, gave me a great deal. But, they got
bought by TW, and I am not impressed so far, so when my smokin deal runs
out, I will likely try DTV, though they bitstarve the shit out of their HD
content, and I watch 90% HD.

2006 November 24, Venger, “NFL turns back on 52 million cable viewers”, in alt.sports.football.pro.dallas-cowboys (Usenet):

(transitive, computing) To cause something to have compression artifacts (esp. blocking) by using too small a bitrate.


bitstarved

en-adj

bitstarved (comparative more bitstarved, superlative most bitstarved)

more bitstarved (comparative)
most bitstarved (superlative)

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(computing) Exhibiting compression artifacts (esp. blocking) due to too small a bitrate.


filespec

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Meronyms: filepath, filename

(computing) A file identifier consisting of path and filename.


ANSI art

ANSI + art. So called because of the use of the ANSI text terminal display standard (ANSI X3.64), from the American National Standards Institute.

(computing, art) A form of letter art that used the extended ASCII character set from the IBM Model 5150 Personal Computer's (IBM PC) Disk Operating System (DOS), and control codes, which allowed for limited color, graphic block characters, limited sound, limited animation.

American National Standards Institute
en:ANSI X3.64
en:ANSI art


drag handle

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface) Synonym of grab handle


preview-quality

en-noun

preview-quality (usually uncountable, plural preview-qualities)

(computing, graphic design) A type of resolution that is visible in icons, thumbnails, or previews of operations such as scans and printing.


mobile-first

(graphical user interface) Designed primarily for mobile rather than desktop devices.


local-first

software engineering
software engineering

(software engineering) Designed to store the user's data on the local computer, connecting to the cloud only when required for tasks such as backup or synchronization.


hackware

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(computing, chiefly science fiction) Software used for hacking (circumventing security measures).


authserv

Blends of terms that start with "auth..." and "serv...". Analyzable as auth + serv.

authoritative server
authoritative server#English

(computing) Abbreviation of authoritative server.

authentication service
authentication service#English

(computing) Abbreviation of authentication service.

authentication server
authentication server#English

(computing) Abbreviation of authentication server.

authorization service
authorization service#English

(computing) Abbreviation of authorization service.

authorization server
authorization server#English

(computing) Abbreviation of authorization server.


DjVu

DjVu (countable and uncountable, plural DjVus)

Translingual: .djv, .djvu

/ˌdeɪ.ʒɑː ˈvuː/

DjVu was developed at AT&T Research by Yan LeCun et al... It generates files that are smaller than PDF files... PDF primarily encodes graphics and text as vectorized data, whereas DjVu primarily encodes them as pixmap images.

2021, Alexander Thomasian, Storage Systems..., §2.13.7

DjVu is a relatively old and no longer developed file format devised by AT&T, used to store scanned images. None of the VirusTotal anti-virus scanners detected the CySource researchers' Base64 encoded payload added to the metadata of the malicious DjVu file. The researchers found that "instead of exiftool detecting the metadata of the file it executes our payload."

2022 April 26, Juha Saarinen, "Google's VirusTotal Service Vulnerable for Over Eight Months", iTnews

(computing, uncountable) A file format intended to represent electronic documents, particularly scanned text.

Because of Wikimedia's educational mission, MediaWiki supports file types that may be uncommon in other web applications or CMSes, like SVG vector images, and multipage PDFs and DjVus. They are rendered as PNG files, and can be thumbnailed and displayed inline, as are more common image files like GIFs, JPGs and PNGs.

2012, Sumana Harihareswara & al., "MediaWiki", The Architecture of Open Source Applications, Vol. II, p. 191

(computing, countable) A file encoded in the DjVu format.


x-plat

(computing) Abbreviation of cross-platform.


mask work

(computer hardware) A type of three-dimensional image or pattern on a layer of materials used to design or manufacture a semiconductor chip.


control-flow graph

control-flow graph (plural control-flow graphs)

(computer science) A representation, using graph notation, of all paths that might be traversed through a program during its execution.


niebloid

From Niebler + -oid, named after Eric Niebler.

If your libraries should provide customization points, it's probably a good idea to implement them using niebloids.

2021 April 23, Adrian Ostrowski, Piotr Gaczkowski, Software Architecture with C++, Packt, →ISBN, page 172:

The niebloids suppress ADL by not being functions. Only functions have overloads to be resolved.

2022 April 14, Bo Persson, “ambiguous reference to 'find' in std and std::ranges namespaces”, in comp.lang.c++ (Usenet):

(programming) An entity that can be called as a function but which is not visible to argument-dependent name lookup.


file descriptor

file descriptor (plural file descriptors)

(computing, software) A process-unique identifier for a file or other input/output resource, such as a pipe or network socket.


network socket

(computing, networking) A software structure within a network node of a computer network that serves as an endpoint for sending and receiving data across the network.


segment descriptor

segment descriptor (plural segment descriptors)

(computer hardware) A part of the segmentation unit, used for translating a logical address to a linear address.


logical address

logical address (plural logical addresses)

(computing, software) The address at which an item appears to reside from the perspective of an executing application program.


cabinet file

(software, Windows) A compress library archive file.


SAUCE

w:Standard Architecture for Universal Comment Extensions

(computing) Acronym of Standard Architecture for Universal Comment Extensions.


concatenation tree

concatenation tree (plural concatenation trees)

When working on the tree representations in our algorithms, we assume that the symbol [.] (vₗ, vᵣ) means a concatenation tree with root "." and children vₗ and vᵣ.

2002, Gonzalo Navarro, Mathieu Raffinot, Flexible Pattern Matching in Strings, page 101:

While galleys are sent between the several objects in a concatenation tree, galleys arriving at the left-most leaf are not expanded, while all other galleys are expanded as far as possible (are “forced”) on arrival.

2003, Wolfram Kahl, “Beyond Pretty-Printing: Galley Concepts in Document Formatting Combinators”, in Gopal Gupta, editor, Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages, page 82:

(computer science) A tree data structure whose internal nodes represent the concatenation of their child branches.


tree-maker

Titles found in this category include Compton's Encyclopedia, Microsoft Encarta, Mavis Beacon Typing, home designing software, family tree makers, as well as a wide range of college test preparation software and programs to help you learn a new language.

2001, Jill T. Freeze, Sams Teach Yourself Computer Basics in 24 Hours, page 113:

There are also free software tree-makers, which you can track down online, or via a family history magazine bulletin.

2011, Cherry Gilchrist, Growing Your Family Tree:

Our Gold Award winner, Legacy Family Tree, has features that connect you to popular genealogy searches, sync with online tree makers and import any sources you find online.

2017, Leonard Hendershott, The Story Gleaner, page 179:

(software) A software program that constructs family trees.


zombie master

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A "zombie computer" is one that, unknown to its owner, has been infected with malicious software that allows a distant "zombie master" to control it, along with potentially thousands of other machines similarly affected.

2013, Tom Chatfield, Netymology, From Apps to Zombies: A Linguistic Celebration of the Digital World, page 41:

(computing, networking) A command and control center that guides and directs a zombie computer or zombie network.


precedence rule

precedence rule (plural precedence rules)

(computing theory, programming) A set of rules specifying the order in which parts of an expression are parsed, especially when parentheses are not present.


BCHS

programming language
programming language

(computing) A solution stack consisting of the OpenBSD operating system, C programming language, httpd web server, and SQLite database.


XAMPP

(computing) A cross-platform solution stack consisting of the Apache web server, MariaDB or MySQL database, and Perl and PHP programming languages.


MAMP

(computing) A solution stack consisting of the Mac OS X operating system, Apache web server, MySQL or MariaDB database, and PHP, Perl and/or Python programming language.


WINS

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(computing) A Microsoft-based solution stack consisting of the Windows Server operating system, Internet Information Services web server, .NET Framework, and SQL Server database.


option type

(programming) A polymorphic type that represents encapsulation of an optional value.


GLASS

(computing) A solution stack consisting of the GemStone database and application server, Linux operating system, Apache web server, Smalltalk programming language, and Seaside web framework.


light profile

light profile (countable and uncountable, plural light profiles)

Photometric lights allow you to attach light profiles created by light manufacturers so that you can simulate specific lights in your scenes.

2012, Todd Palamar, Mastering Autodesk Maya 2013, pages 9-45:

(computer graphics) Data that describes the manner in which a light source behaves, and the type of shadows that are cast.


LLMP

(computing) A solution stack consisting of the Linux operating system, lighttpd web server, MySQL or MariaDB database, and Perl, PHP or Python programming language.


LAPP

(computing) A solution stack consisting of the Linux operating system, Apache web server, PostgreSQL database, and Perl, PHP or Python programming language.


GRANDstack

(computing) A solution stack consisting of GraphQL (data query and manipulation language), React (web application presentation), Apollo (data graph platform), and Neo4j (database management system).


PERN

(computing) A solution stack consisting of the PostgreSQL database, Express.js application controller layer, React JavaScript library, and Node.js JavaScript runtime.


LYCE

(computing) A solution stack consisting of the Linux operating system, Yaws web server, CouchDB database, and Erlang programming language.


LYME

(computing) A solution stack consisting of the Linux operating system, Yaws web server, Mnesia database, and Erlang programming language.


SMACK

(computing) An Apache-based solution stack consisting of Spark, Mesos, Akka, Cassandra, and Kafka.


XRX

(computing) A solution stack based on XForms, REST, and XQuery.


PLONK

(computing) A solution stack consisting of Prometheus (metrics and time-series), Linkerd (service mesh), OpenFaaS (management and auto-scaling of compute), NATS (asynchronous message bus/queue), and Kubernetes (declarative, extensible, scale-out, self-healing clustering).


barrel file

The first thing you want to do to build your framework is export the functions that you want to expose to the developer using it from the src/index.js barrel file. Whatever you export from this file makes the public API of the framework.

2024, Ángel Sola Orbaiceta, Build a Frontend Web Framework (From Scratch), Shelter Island, N.Y.: Manning Publications Co., →ISBN, page 111:

(programming) A JavaScript or TypeScript module which does nothing except import various files and then export them together, for the convenience of other developers who only need to know about and work with that single barrel file.


runspace

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(computing) In Microsoft PowerShell, an isolated environment in which a script or command executes.


curly bracket language

curly bracket language (plural curly bracket languages)

curly-bracket language
curly-bracket language#English

(programming) Alternative form of curly-bracket language


curly braces language

curly braces language (plural curly braces languages)

curly-braces language
curly-braces language#English

(programming) Alternative form of curly-braces language


curly brace language

curly brace language (plural curly brace languages)

curly-brace language
curly-brace language#English

(programming) Alternative form of curly-brace language


relational attribute

relational attribute (plural relational attributes)

(databases) A column in a relational database that specifies a data type and stores information.


AZDO

(computer graphics) Initialism of approaching zero driver overhead (“a set of techniques aimed at reducing the CPU overhead in preparing and submitting rendering commands in the OpenGL pipeline”).


BRDF

(computer graphics) Initialism of bidirectional reflectance distribution function.


geometry shader

geometry shader (plural geometry shaders)

(computer graphics) A type of shader that can process three-dimensional model geometry, for example by turning one primitive into another.


drawcall

(computer graphics, programming) The sending of a command to the graphics API.


cone tracing

(computer graphics) A variation of ray tracing that uses cones instead of rays.


OOBB

Coordinate term: AABB

(computer graphics) Initialism of object-oriented bounding box.


SSAO

Coordinate term: SSDO

screen space ambient occlusion
w:screen space ambient occlusion

(computer graphics) Initialism of screen space ambient occlusion.


SSDO

Coordinate term: SSAO

screen space directional occlusion
w:screen space directional occlusion

(computer graphics) Initialism of screen space directional occlusion.


null device

(computing) A type of device file that discards all written data in it.


code-lift

en-verb

code-lift (third-person singular simple present code-lifts, present participle code-lifting, simple past and past participle code-lifted)

code-lifts (present singular third-person)
code-lifting (participle present)
code-lifted (participle past)
code-lifted (past)

I decided to address all the encoding layers of DroidGuard through code lifting

2022, Romain Thomas, “DroidGuard: A Deep Dive into SafetyNet”, in SSTIC:

a white-box implementation is besides the point if the attacker can easily code-lift the white-box as a whole

2017 August 22, “Assessing Software Protection Schemes”, in OWASP Mobile Security Testing Guide:

(computing) To copy an entire function without understanding it to use outside a secured system


OVF

(computing, virtualisation) Abbreviation of Open Virtualization Format.


VMDK

(computing, virtualization) Abbreviation of Virtual Machine Disk.


prototype-based scripting language

en-noun

prototype-based scripting language (usually uncountable, plural prototype-based scripting languages)

prototype-based scripting languages (plural)

(computing, programming) A programming language that uses prototypes to allow objects to inherit properties and methods from other objects.


photon mapping

photon mapping (countable and uncountable, plural photon mappings)

(computer graphics) A two-pass global illumination rendering algorithm that approximately solves the rendering equation for integrating light radiance at a given point in space.


FDH

free disposal hull
free disposal hull#English

(computer graphics) Initialism of free disposal hull.


cube mapping

cube mapping (usually uncountable, plural cube mappings)

(computer graphics) The use or creation of a cube map.


if-then-else

(programming) A statement that executes different code based on whether a condition is true or false.


timestamp-based concurrency control

timestamp-based concurrency control (usually uncountable, plural timestamp-based concurrency controls)

timestamp-based concurrency controls (plural)

(computing, databases) A method that uses timestamps to manage transactions in databases.


timestamp reply

timestamp reply (plural timestamp replies)

(Internet, networking) An ICMP query message that is sent in response to an ICMP timestamp request message.


distributed ray tracing

(computer graphics) A form of ray tracing that averages a number of rays across an interval, allowing for the rendering of soft or blurry phenomena.


shadow map

(computer graphics) A texture buffer used in shadow mapping.


shadow buffer

(computer graphics) Synonym of shadow map


light probe

(computer graphics) A designated location, within the empty space of a scene, where light is measured for use in later rendering.


clipmap

(computer graphics) A mipmap used in clipmapping.


w-buffer

(computer graphics) A kind of inverted z-buffer, storing inverse depth values, which has some advantages for interpolation and precision scaling.


z-buffering

(computer graphics) The use of a z-buffer.


w-buffering

(computer graphics) The use of a w-buffer.


HAMR

heat-assisted magnetic recording
w:heat-assisted magnetic recording

(computing) Abbreviation of heat-assisted magnetic recording.


scratch tape

(computing, historical) A tape that is only temporarily needed for data storage and that can therefore be reused.


nowdoc

now + doc, modelled on earlier heredoc, with now as another adverb indicating presence.

(programming) In the PHP programming language, a kind of here document that does not interpolate variables.


Phong lighting

(computer graphics) A technique for the local illumination of points on a surface, approximating the way that light is reflected in reality.


Phong illumination

(computer graphics) Synonym of Phong lighting


Phong reflection

Phong reflection (countable and uncountable, plural Phong reflections)


processing unit

processing unit (plural processing units)

(computing, computer science) An electrical component (digital circuit) that performs operations on an external data source, usually memory or some other data stream.


back buffer

(computer graphics) A buffer used to store graphics while they are being drawn, and later copied to the display in a single operation.


AVX

Advanced Vector Extensions
w:Advanced Vector Extensions

(computing) Initialism of Advanced Vector Extensions.


displacement mapping

(computer graphics) A method for adding detail to surfaces by subdivision and displacement of the resulting vertices from a heightmap.


weightmap

(computer graphics) A set of vertex attributes controlling deformation of a three-dimensional model during skeletal animation.


reflection mapping

(computer graphics) A technique for approximating the reflections of the surrounding environment on complex surfaces, by storing a full 360-degree view of the environment in a texture using a specific mapping.


environment mapping

reflection mapping
reflection mapping#English

(computer graphics) Synonym of reflection mapping


scrutinee

The reason that simpl doesn't make progress here is that it notices that, after tentatively unfolding bar m, it is left with a match whose scrutinee, m, is a variable, so the match cannot be simplified further.

2024, Benjamin C. Pierce et al., Logical Foundations (Software Foundations):

functional programming
functional programming

(computing, functional programming) The expression that is subject to scrutiny in a pattern match construct.


(arithmetic, computing) Synonym of binary (“concerning numbers and calculations using the binary number system”)


depth peeling

(computer graphics) A technique for achieving order-independent transparency by means of two z-buffers.


forward rendering

Coordinate term: deferred shading

(computer graphics) A traditional three-dimensional rendering pipeline that sorts light sources applicable to models in world space prior to rasterization.


quadkey

(computing theory) A key into a quadtree data structure.


binary file

(computing) A computer file that is not a text file, consisting of data other than human-readable text.


snapshottable

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(computing) Of which a snapshot may be taken.


CRQC

It's almost like the NSA is dropping a not-so-subtle hint, though why it would is debatable. If it has a CRQC, or is on the path to one, it might want to warn allies, vendors, and citizens to think about using quantum-resistant technologies in case bad people develop a CRQC too. But why would the spies tip their hand so? It's all very curious.

2021 September 1, Gareth Corfield, “NSA: We 'don't know when or even if' a quantum computer will ever be able to break today's public-key encryption”, in The Register, archived from the original on 2024-05-18:

Shor's algorithm
Shor's algorithm#Proper noun

(cryptography) Initialism of cryptographically relevant quantum computer; a quantum computer powerful enough to break modern cryptography (e.g., using Shor's algorithm to break RSA or Ed25519).


digital signatures
digital signature#Noun

(cryptography) An algorithm, based on the properties of elliptic curves, used to securely create digital signatures.


CLUI

(computing) Acronym of command line user interface.


toolsuite

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Compound of tool + suite. Attested from the 20th century (see quotations below).

2. Overall project productivity enhancement as a result of NAS support for rapid prototyping, runtime instrumentation toolsuite, and encapsulation of the difficult capabilities required in any distributed real-time system

1989, Walker Royce, “Reliable, reusable Ada components for constructing large, distributed multi-task networks: Network Architecture Services (NAS)”, in Proceedings. TRI-Ada ’89, page 500:

The CD also includes GNU toolsuite with EMACS language-sensitive editor

1999, Ben Cohen, VHDL Coding Styles and Methodologies, page xi:

In the past 15+ years, our team has created and evolved a tool-suite for model-driven software development that we call ‘Model-Integrated Computing’ (MIC) suite [24].

2010, Gabor Karsai, “Lessons learned from building a graph transformation system”, in Gregor Engels, Claus Lewerentz, Wilhelm Schäfer, Andy Schürr, Bernhard Westfechtel, editors, Graph Transformations and Model-Driven Engineering: Essays Dedicated to Manfred Nagl on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday, page 203:

To support the complex SeCo lifecycle, we have designed a toolsuite that comprises a variety of instruments, structured as an online development platform

2011, Marco Brambilla, Luca Tettamanti, “Tools supporting search computing application development”, in Stefano Ceri, Marco Brambilla, editors, Search Computing: Trends and Developments, page 180:

If the compiler was installed correctly, the dialog will show Microchip C18 as the active language toolsuite. The toolsuite contents window will list the four programs required in project development

2018, Julio Sanchez, Maria P. Canton, Microcontrollers: High-Performance Systems and Programming, page 92:

(computing) A set of related tools (software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations) that are distributed together.


binary blob

You put up with the closed hardware because it performs well, and it supports the standard software, development tools, and APIs that keep the computing world spinning. For others, it's anathema—if you can't see the source code for these "binary blobs," they are inherently untrustworthy and should be used sparingly or not at all.

2022 January 31, Andrew Cunningham, “Review: MNT Reform laptop has fully open hardware and software—for better or worse”, in Ars Technica, archived from the original on 2024-09-28:

(programming, often derogatory) A piece of software which is only available as a binary file (as opposed to being open-source), thus making the program very difficult to audit or modify.


off-by-one bug

off-by-one error
off-by-one error#English

(programming) Synonym of off-by-one error


framestore

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Framestores avoid the danger of genlocking the studio to an outside source and add a smoothness to switching in or overlaying the wild feed without picture breakup.

1977, Broadcast Engineering - Volume 19, page 48:


facet name

(computing, programming) A technical name that identifies a facet in code, such as in a shortcode.


jumbo frame

(networking) An Ethernet frame with more than 1500 bytes of payload, the limit set by the IEEE 802.3 standard.


teleop

teleop (countable and uncountable, plural teleops)

Clipping of teleoperation, equivalent to tele- + op.

Sanctuary's teleoperated humanoid is very capable, but teleoperation is of course not scalable in the way that even partial autonomy is. What all of this teleop has allowed Sanctuary to do is to collect lots and lots of data about how humans do stuff. The long-term plan is that some of those human manipulation skills can eventually be transferred to a very humanlike robot, which is the design concept underlying Phoenix.

2023 May 16, Evan Ackerman, “Sanctuary's Humanoid Robot Is for General-Purpose Autonomy”, in IEEE Spectrum, New York, N.Y.: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-05-19:

Von der Ohe said that tele-driving technology is so inexpensive from a capital expenditure perspective, he expects that within five to 10 years, any kind of vehicle that runs from the production line will be teleop-enabled, leveraging the ADAS cameras that are already on the vehicle.

2024 September 5, Kirsten Korosec, “Driverless car-sharing startup Vay steers toward B2B services”, in TechCrunch, archived from the original on 2024-09-17:

(robotics) Teleoperation (the remote operation of a machine or device).


HTTP verb

(programming, Internet) A HTTP method; any of a predefined set of words (such as GET, OPTIONS or POST) that are part of an HTTP request and indicate the desired action to be performed on a given resource.


very-large-scale

(computer hardware) Of a system, containing hundreds of thousands of transistors on a single integrated circuit.


tattleware

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Amid the rise of “bossware” or “tattleware” – essentially spyware that enables managers to monitor their employees working from home – is a new program called Sneek, which uses your webcam to take a photo of you about once a minute and makes it available to your supervisor, to prove that you are not away from your desk doing God knows what.

2021 September 16, Jessa Crispin, “Employers are spying on Americans at home with ‘tattleware’. It’s time to track them instead”, in The Guardian:

Rather than imposing privacy-invading tattleware on their employees, employers should instead reevaluate how they measure success. Is it about “productivity?” Or is it about results?

2021 October 19, Emma McGowan, “'Tattleware' not only intrusive but ineffective”, in Avast Blog:

(computing, informal, derogatory) Software that monitors employees' computer activity so that their supervisor can track what they are doing.


economic equilibrium

economic equilibrium (plural economic equilibriums or economic equilibria)

economic equilibriums (plural)
economic equilibria (plural)

(game theory) A situation where economic forces are balanced, and without external influences, the value of economic variables will not change.


direct buffer

Coordinate term: non-direct buffer

(computing, programming) A portion of native memory that is shared with Java and can be used for direct reads.


non-direct buffer

non-direct buffer (plural non-direct buffers)

Coordinate term: direct buffer

(computing, programming) A buffer whose underlying data is a byte array that is allocated in the Java heap area.


non-free software

(computing, software) Software that cannot be freely copied, redistributed and modified, including source code.

(computing, software) Any software that is not free, such as payware.


URL injection

(computing, Internet) A type of code injection attack that involves adding malicious characters to data values in the argument values of a URL.


hyperscaler

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The hyperscalers include the mega cloud operators like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.

2022, Tom Taulli, Modern Mainframe Development, page 282:

(computing) A company that provides hyperscale computing infrastructure.


monomorphize

en-verb

monomorphize (third-person singular simple present monomorphizes, present participle monomorphizing, simple past and past participle monomorphized)

monomorphizes (present singular third-person)
monomorphizing (participle present)
monomorphized (participle past)
monomorphized (past)

(computer science, transitive) To convert (a polymorphic function) to a monomorphic function.


bufferful

en-noun

bufferful (plural bufferfuls or buffersful)

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(computing) The amount of data that fills a buffer.


ZBR

(computing) Initialism of zone bit recording.


proc-gen

(computing) Short for procedural generation.


RIRO

rubbish in, rubbish out
rubbish in, rubbish out#English

(UK, computing) Acronym of rubbish in, rubbish out.


OBOE

(programming) Initialism of off-by-one error.


xvideo

(computing, dated, now rare) Alternative form of XVideo (“the X video extension”).


PLINQ

(programming, .NET) Acronym of Parallel Language Integrated Query.


semicoroutine

Each incarnations needs some block structure information (static and dynamic link, display or such like), a return label, n+1 label variables for the activation points of the cooperation (in the "semicoroutine" case) and of the n coprocedures and the space needed for parameters and locals.

1974, Information Processing (IFIP transactions: Computer science and technology), Unesco, page 409:

C# 2.0 added semi-coroutine functionality through the iterator pattern and yield keyword.

2024, Vaskaran Sarcar, Parallel Programming with C# And . NET: Fundamentals of Concurrency and Asynchrony Behind Fast-Paced Applications, Apress, →ISBN, page 359:

(programming) A type of coroutine with limited control over its execution flow that can yield values multiple times, suspending its execution and allowing the caller to resume it later. However, unlike full coroutines, semicoroutines do not specify where the execution will continue after yielding; control is always returned to the caller.


upsertion

upsertion (countable and uncountable, plural upsertions)

Preparing the data for upsertion

2024, Denis Rothman, RAG-Driven Generative AI, page 190:


nybl

And the young Prophet did journey to the land of the Lotus where computers grew on trees and mighty wizards wandered about conjuring bytes and nybls, protocols and hashing algorithms, much to the astonishment of the people of that land.

(computing, rare) Alternative form of nybble


log spam

(computing) Log entries of an amount that in acknowledgement of misconfiguration will not be read and will waste space.


BogoMIPS

From bogus and MIPS (“million instructions per second”).

(computing, slang) A crude informal measurement of CPU speed, made by the Linux kernel while booting and used to calibrate an internal busy loop.


Debianification

(computing) The process of adapting or modifying a Linux distribution to closely resemble or be based on the Debian operating system.


metaprogrammable

(programming) Having support for metaprogramming.


defensive copying

software engineering
software engineering

(software engineering) The design pattern of using defensive copies.


defensive copy

defensive copy (plural defensive copies)

(software engineering) A copy of an object made for the purpose of preventing unwanted mutation of the original.


blue-green deployment

(software engineering) The technique of rolling out changes to a system by alternating the production and staging servers each time. One server is referred to as "green" and the other as "blue".


ICSE

(software) Initialism of International Conference on Software Engineering.


boot loop

(computing) A faulty condition in which the system repeatedly reboots itself.


continuous delivery pipeline

continuous delivery pipeline (countable and uncountable, plural continuous delivery pipelines)

(software, computing) An automated series of steps that moves software code from the development stage through building, testing, and deployment to a production environment.


association link

association link (plural association links)

(computing, dated) A device that is used to group multiple words or concepts.


door hanger

I can basically do whatever I want in Gmail without that hidden doorhanger icon disappearing. Also, if a user simply uses the post-login page as a launching pad for opening links in new tabs or windows, then the doorhanger still remains in its hidden state.

2010, wmarcello, “Re: Doorhanger behaviour concerns”, in mozilla.dev.apps.firefox (Usenet):

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(computing, graphical user interface) A visual notification that drops down from another element such as a toolbar icon.


protocol stack

(networking) Synonym of stack (“an implementation of a protocol suite (a set of protocols forming a layered architecture)”)


procedure call

(computing, programming) A statement that invokes a procedure in a program.


Lamport timestamp

Lamport timestamp (plural Lamport timestamps)

Named after the creator, Leslie Lamport.

(computing theory) A timestamp generated by a certain algorithm used to determine the order of events in a distributed system.


SGCAPS

SG as an abbreviation from Swiss German (the first keyboard layout to use this feature) combined with abbreviation CAPS from Caps Lock.

(computing) A Windows keyboard feature that strictly produces an uppercase version of a letter whereas Shift produces an unrelated symbol.


logical clock

(computing) A mechanism for capturing chronological and causal relationships in a distributed system.


vector clock

(computing) An array of logical clocks used to determine the partial order of events in a distributed system and detect causality violations.


swap chain

(computer graphics) A series of virtual framebuffers used by the graphics card and API for frame rate stabilization, stutter reduction, etc.


junction table

The EmployeeCategory table is a junction table associating each employee with zero or more categories.

(databases) A table whose rows represent connections between items in other tables.


reverse line feed

reverse line feed (plural reverse line feeds)

(computing) The character (0x0a in ASCII) which reverses the paper by one line in a teletype or printer, or moves the cursor to the previous line on a display.


Jefferson disk

Commonly attributed to Thomas Jefferson.

(historical, cryptography) Any of a set of stackable disks, each having the letters of the alphabet arranged in some sequence around its edge, used in a cipher system.


incrementalize

en-verb

incrementalize (third-person singular simple present incrementalizes, present participle incrementalizing, simple past and past participle incrementalized)

incrementalizes (present singular third-person)
incrementalizing (participle present)
incrementalized (participle past)
incrementalized (past)

(programming, transitive) To make (an operation) incremental, using results from previous iterations instead of performing a complete recalculation every time.


data collection tree

en-noun

data collection tree (plural data collection trees)

Alternative form: (abbreviation) DCT

(computing) A network topology used to gather and aggregate data from a collection of sensor nodes into a single node, which then propagates the aggregated data on.


sexpr

symbolic expression
symbolic expression#English

(computing) Abbreviation of symbolic expression.


RVA

(computing) Initialism of relative virtual address.


precertificate

To do so, the CA submits a Precertificate that the log can use to create an entry that will be valid against the issued certificate.

2013 June, B. Laurie, A. Langley, E. Kasper, “RFC 6962: Certificate Transparency”, in IETF Datatracker, Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), page 9:

Alternatively, before signing the certificate, the CA creates a precertificate that binds the same data in a different format as the final certificate.

2022, Jingqiang Lin, Qiang Tang, editors, Applied Cryptography in Computer and Communications: Second EAI International Conference, AC3 2022, Virtual Event, May 14-15, 2022, Proceedings (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering; 448), Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 129:

The CA sends the precertificate to logs

2025 January 5, Wikipedia contributors, “Certificate Transparency”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation:

(computer science, cybersecurity) A special type of SSL/TLS certificate used in Certificate Transparency (CT) for logging purposes. It's a precursor to the actual SSL/TLS certificate and helps ensure transparency in the certificate issuance process.


Epochalypse

(computing, informal) The predicted problem in the year 2038 when some systems using Unix time will become unable to represent new times and store timestamps.


programmer art

(computing, video games, slang) Crude or ugly visuals created by a developer as placeholders.


golflang

esoteric programming language
esoteric programming language

(programming) An esoteric programming language designed for code golf.


slashify

en-verb

slashify (third-person singular simple present slashifies, present participle slashifying, simple past and past participle slashified)

slashifies (present singular third-person)
slashifying (participle present)
slashified (participle past)
slashified (past)

(computing, transitive, rare) To add slashes to text (for example to escape it).


cyberflasher

(computing, crime) One who commits cyberflashing.


embeddable programming

programming language
programming language

(programming) The use of programming languages to create software for embedded systems.


telehaptics

(computing) The study of telehaptic technology.


requirements engineer

en-noun

requirements engineer (plural requirements engineers)

(engineering, software engineering) A professional who defines, documents, and maintains requirements for a project.


hypercall

(computing) A syscall made by a guest operating system to the underlying hypervisor, rather than executing instructions that the hypervisor simulates.


disk pack

(computing) A rigid cylindrical device having a center spindle and one or more steel plates with a magnetic coating, used to store and retrieve computer files.


hidden code

(computing, programming) Code that is embedded in software or another system and is disguised to make it difficult to detect.


programming style

programming style (countable and uncountable, plural programming styles)

(programming) The conventions and patterns used in writing source code, resulting in a consistent and readable codebase.


status line

(computing, graphical user interface) A line of information on a computer screen that shows the current state of an application, window, or computer.


glassmorphism

(graphical user interface, neologism) A user interface style characterized by panels with a blurred translucency effect over background elements, mimicking frosted glass.


visionOS

(computing, mixed reality) A mixed reality operating system (OS) created and developed by Apple Inc. used for its Apple Vision Pro mixed reality headset.


skysphere

(video games, computer graphics) A sphere with a texture on its inner face, used to simulate the sky or similar backdrop around a three-dimensional playfield; a skydome.