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• moke and mirrors n. Marketing deceptions. The term is mainstream in this general sense.
  Among hackers it's strongly associated with bogus demos and crocked benchmarks (see also MIPS, machoflops)....
• moke and mirrors: n. Marketing deceptions. The term is mainstream in this general sense.
  Among hackers it's strongly associated with bogus demos and crocked {benchmark}s (see also {MIPS}, {machoflops})....
• miswart /mis-wort/ n. [from wart by analogy with misbug] A feature that superficially appears to be a wart but has been determined to be the Right Thing.
  For example, in some versions of the EMACS text editor, the `transpose characters' command exchanges the character under the cursor with the one before it on the screen, except when the cursor is at the end of a line, in which case the two characters before the cursor are exchanged....
• Quote #73 "What's taking so long? It's only typing!
  -- a marketing manager posing as a software manager (....
• miswart: /mis-wort/ [from {wart} by analogy with {misbug}] n.
  A {feature} that superficially appears to be a {wart} but has been determined to be the {Right Thing}....
• A genie appears in a cloud of green smoke. He drops something, waves, and then vanishes, taking the smoke with him.
• A cloud of purple smoke appears, then clears away to reveal a tall sorcerer wearing tacky shoes.
  He makes a note of what you've just said, and says "Be nice....
• What's the difference between the window manager and the computer club window manager?
  Well, one's supported software and the other isn't....
• ystem mangler n. Humorous synonym for `system manager', poss.
  from the fact that one major IBM OS had a root account called SYSMANGR....