dumbass attack /duhm'as *-tak'/ n.
[Purdue] Notional
cause of a novice's mistake made by the experienced, especially one
made while running as root under Unix, e.g., typing rm
-r * or mkfs on a mounted file system. Compare adger.
[Purdue] Notional
cause of a novice's mistake made by the experienced, especially one
made while running as root under Unix, e.g., typing rm
-r * or mkfs on a mounted file system. Compare adger.
Related:
- dumbass attack /duhm'as *-tak'/ n.
[Purdue] Notional
cause of a novice's mistake made by the experienced,
especially one made while running as root under... - perfect programmer syndrome n.
Arrogance; the egotistical
conviction that one is above normal human error.
Most frequently found among programmers of some... - perfect programmer syndrome: n. Arrogance; the egotistical
conviction that one is above normal human error.
Most frequently found among programmers of some... - ad-hockery /ad-hok'*r-ee/ n.
[Purdue] 1. Gratuitous
assumptions made inside certain programs,
esp. expert systems, which lead to the appearance... - dump n.
1. An undigested and voluminous mass of information
about a problem or the state of a system,
especially one routed to the slowest available output... - dump: n. 1. An undigested and voluminous mass of information about
a problem or the state of a system,
especially one routed to the slowest available output... - T-A+G-L-I+N-E--+M-E-A+S-U-R+I-N-G+-
G-A+U-G-E-... - ad-hockery: /ad-hok'*r-ee/ [Purdue] n. 1. Gratuitous assumptions
made inside certain programs,
esp. expert systems, which lead to the appearance... - rc file /R-C fi:l/ n.
[Unix: from `runcom files' on
the CTSS system 1962-63,
via the startup script /etc/rc] Script file containing...
From the same category:
- daemon book n.
"The Design and Implementation of
the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System",
by Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael... - Godwin's Law prov.
[Usenet] "As a Usenet discussion grows
longer,
the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or... - ACK /ak/ interj.
1. [common; from the ASCII mnemonic
for 0000110] Acknowledge.
Used to register one's presence (compare mainstream... - heavyweight adj.
[common] High-overhead; baroque;
code-intensive; featureful, but costly. Esp. used... - fall over vi.
[IBM] Yet another synonym for crash or
lose.
`Fall over hard' equates to crash and burn...
