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  • corge
    /korj/ [originally, the name of a cat] n. Yet another {metasyntactic variable}, invented by Mike Gallaher and propagated by the {GOSMACS} documentation. See... VIEW ENTIRE DEFINITION


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  • dinosaur pen
    n. A traditional {mainframe} computer room complete with raised flooring, special power, its own ultra-heavy-duty air conditioning, and a side order of Halon fire...FULL DEFINITION

  • restriction
    n. A {bug} or design error that limits a program's capabilities, and which is sufficiently egregious that nobody can quite work up enough nerve...FULL DEFINITION

  • garbage collect
    vi. (also `garbage collection', n.) See {GC}.

  • fuck me harder
    excl. Sometimes uttered in response to egregious misbehavior, esp. in software, and esp. of misbehaviors which seem unfairly persistent (as though designed in by...FULL DEFINITION

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  • Open DeathTrap
    n. Abusive hackerism for the Santa Cruz Operation's `Open DeskTop' product, a Motif-based graphical interface over their UNIX. The funniest part is that...FULL DEFINITION

  • live data
    n. 1. Data that is written to be interpreted and takes over program flow when triggered by some un-obvious operation, such as viewing it....FULL DEFINITION

  • pizza, ANSI standard
    /an'see stan'd*rd peet'z*/ [CMU] Pepperoni and mushroom pizza. Coined allegedly because most pizzas ordered by CMU hackers during some period leading up to...FULL DEFINITION

  • core
    n. Main storage or RAM. Dates from the days of ferrite-core memory; now archaic as techspeak most places outside IBM, but also still...FULL DEFINITION