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• 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....
• perfect programmer syndrome n. Arrogance; the egotistical conviction that one is above normal human error.
  Most frequently found among programmers of some native ability but relatively little experience (especially new graduate...
• perfect programmer syndrome: n. Arrogance; the egotistical conviction that one is above normal human error.
  Most frequently found among programmers of some native ability but relatively little experience (especially new graduate...
• ad-hockery /ad-hok'*r-ee/ n. [Purdue] 1. Gratuitous assumptions made inside certain programs, esp.
  expert systems, which lead to the appearance of semi-intelligent behavior but are in fact entirely arbitrary....
• 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 device (compare core dump), and most especially one consisting of hex or octal runes describing the byte-by-byte state of memory, mass storage, or some file....
• 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 device (compare {core dump}), and most especially one consisting of hex or octal {runes} describing the byte-by-byte state of memory, mass storage, or some file....
• 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 of semi-intelligent behavior but are in fact entirely arbitrary....
• c 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 startup instructions for an application program (or an entire operating system), usually a text file containing commands of the sort that might have been invoked manually once the system was running but are to be executed automatically each time the system starts up....