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• ysape /sys'ayp/ n. A rather derogatory term for a computer operato
  a play on sysop common at sites that use the banana hierarchy of problem complexity (see one-banana problem)....
• banana problem: n. [from the story of the little girl who said "I know how to spell `banana', but I don't know when to stop"].
  Not knowing where or when to bring a production to a close (compare {fencepost error})....
• one-banana problem: n. At mainframe shops, where the computers have operators for routine administrivia
  he programmers and hardware people tend to look down on the operators and claim that a trained monkey could do their job....
• UNIX weenie: [ITS] n. 1. A derogatory play on `UNIX wizard', common among hackers who use UNIX by necessity but would prefer alternatives.
  The implication is that although the person in question may consider mastery of UNIX arcana to be a wizardly skill, the only real skill involved is the ability to tolerate (and the bad taste to wallow in) the incoherence and needless complexity that is alleged to infest many UNIX programs....
• visionary: n. 1. One who hacks vision, in the sense of an Artificial Intelligence researcher working on the problem of getting computers to `see' things using TV cameras.
  (There isn't any problem in sending information from a TV camera to a computer....
• banana problem n. [from the story of the little girl who said "I know how to spell `banana', but I don't know when to stop"].
  Not knowing where or when to bring a production to a close (compare fencepost error)....
• DP: /D-P/ n. 1. Data Processing. Listed here because, according to hackers, use of the term marks one immediately as a {suit}.
  See {DPer}. 2. Common abbrev for {Dissociated Press}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• Unix weenie n. [ITS] 1. A derogatory play on `Unix wizard', common among hackers who use Unix by necessity but would prefer alternatives.
  The implication is that although the person in question may consider mastery of Unix arcana to be a wizardly skill, the only real skill involved is the ability to tolerate (and the bad taste to wallow in) the incoherence and needless complexity that is alleged to infest many Unix programs....
• xor: /X'or/, /kzor/ conj. Exclusive or. `A xor B' means `A or B, but not both'.
  I want to get cherry pie xor a banana split." This derives from the technical use of the term as a function on truth-values that is true if exactly one of its two arguments is true....