dirtball n.
[XEROX PARC] A small, perhaps struggling
outsider; not in the major or even the minor leagues. For example,
"Xerox is not a dirtball company".
[Outsiders often observe in the PARC culture an institutional
arrogance which usage of this term exemplifies. The brilliance and
scope of PARC's contributions to computer science have been such
that this superior attitude is not much resented. --ESR]
[XEROX PARC] A small, perhaps struggling
outsider; not in the major or even the minor leagues. For example,
"Xerox is not a dirtball company".
[Outsiders often observe in the PARC culture an institutional
arrogance which usage of this term exemplifies. The brilliance and
scope of PARC's contributions to computer science have been such
that this superior attitude is not much resented. --ESR]
Related:
- dirtball: [XEROX PARC] n. A small, perhaps struggling outsider;
not in the major or even the minor leagues. For example... - PARC n.
See XEROX PARC... - fum n.
[XEROX PARC] At PARC, often the third of the
standard metasyntactic variables (after foo and
bar).
Competes with baz, which is more common outside ... - fum: [XEROX PARC] n. At PARC, often the third of the standard
{metasyntactic variable}s (after {foo} and {bar}).
Competes with {baz}, which is more common outside... - XEROX PARC /zee'roks park'/ n.
The famed Palo Alto
Research Center.
For more than a decade, from the early 1970s into ... - XEROX PARC: /zee'roks park'/ The famed Palo Alto Research
Center.
For more than a decade, from the early 1970s into the... - What's a spline?
[XEROX PARC] This phrase expands to:
"You have just used a term that I've heard for a... - fontology: [XEROX PARC] n. The body of knowledge dealing with the
construction and use of new fonts (e.g.
for window systems and typesetting software). It... - fontology n.
[XEROX PARC] The body of knowledge dealing
with the construction and use of new fonts (e.g.
for window systems and typesetting software). It...
From the same category:
- Telerat /tel'*-rat/ n. obs.
Unflattering hackerism for
`Teleray',
a now-extinct line of extremely losing terminals. ... - FISH queue n.
[acronym, by analogy with FIFO (First In,
First Out)] `First In, Still Here'. A joking way of... - dumpster diving /dump'-ster di:'-ving/ n.
1. The practice
of sifting refuse from an office or technical installation to
extract confidential data,
especially security-compromising ... - fum n.
[XEROX PARC] At PARC, often the third of the
standard metasyntactic variables (after foo and
bar).
Competes with baz, which is more common outside ... - Bohr bug /bohr buhg/ n.
[from quantum physics] A repeatable
bug;
one that manifests reliably under a possibly unknown...
