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Vulture Capitalist N. Pejorative Hackerism For `venture Capitalist'
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vulture capitalist n.
Pejorative hackerism for `venture
capitalist', deriving from the common practice of pushing contracts
that deprive inventors of control over their own innovations and
most of the money they ought to have made from them.
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vulture capitalist: n. Pejorative hackerism for `venture capitalist'
deriving from the common practice of pushing contracts that deprive inventors of control over their own innovations and most of the money they ought to have made from them....
desk check n.,v. To grovel over hardcopy of source code, mentally simulating the control flow
a method of catching bugs. No longer common practice in this age of on-screen editing, fast compiles, and sophisticated debuggers -- though some maintain stoutly that it ought to be....
desk check: n.,v. To {grovel} over hardcopy of source code, mentally simulating the control flow
a method of catching bugs. No longer common practice in this age of on-screen editing, fast compiles, and sophisticated debuggers --- though some maintain stoutly that it ought to be....
There is no such thing as a "dirty capitalist", only a capitalist. -- Bill Gray
gripenet n. [IBM] A wry (and thoroughly unofficial) name for IBM's internal VNET system
deriving from its common use by IBMers to voice pointed criticism of IBM management that would be taboo in more formal channels....
Anarcho-Capitalist for sale or rent.
It's very glamorous to raise millions of dollars, until it's time for the venture capitalist to suck your eyeballs out.
-- Peter Kennedy, chairman of Kraft & Kennedy....
paghetti inheritance n. [encountered among users of object-oriented languages that use inheritance
uch as Smalltalk] A convoluted class-subclass graph, often resulting from carelessly deriving subclasses from other classes just for the sake of reusing their code....
gripenet: [IBM] n. A wry (and thoroughly unofficial) name for IBM's internal VNET system
deriving from its common use by IBMers to voice pointed criticism of IBM management that would be taboo in more formal channels....