:real: adj. Not simulated. Often used as a specific antonym to
{virtual} in any of its jargon senses.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
{virtual} in any of its jargon senses.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
- eal adj. Not simulated. Often used as a specific antonym to virtual in any of its jargon senses.
- virtual: [via the technical term `virtual memory', prob.
from the term `virtual image' in optics] adj. 1.... - virtual adj.
[via the technical term `virtual memory',
prob.
from the term `virtual image' in optics] 1. Common alternative to logical... - wound around the axle: adj. In an infinite loop. Often used by older
computer types.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary... - Yet Another: adj. [From UNIX's `yacc(1)', `Yet Another
Compiler-Compiler', a LALR parser generator] 1.
Of your own work: A humorous allusion often used in titles to acknowledge that the topic is not original, though the content is.... - hirsute: adj. Occasionally used humorously as a synonym for {hairy}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
- ontrivial: adj. Requiring real thought or significant computing
power.
Often used as an understated way of saying that a problem is quite difficult or impractical, or even entirely unsolvable ("Proving P=NP is nontrivial").... - clean: 1. adj. Used of hardware or software desig
implies `elegance in the small', that is, a design or implementation that may not hold any surprises but does things in a way that is reasonably intuitive and relatively easy to comprehend from the outside.... - oid: [from `android'] suff. 1. Used as in mainstream English to
indicate a poor imitation, a counterfeit, or some otherwise
slightly bogus resemblance.
Hackers will happily use it with all sorts of non-Greco/Latin stem words that wouldn't keep company with it in mainstream English....

