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• 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....
• 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....
• aste [primarily MIT] n. 1. The quality in a program that tends to be inversely proportional to the number of features, hacks, and kluges programmed into it.
  Also `tasty', `tasteful', `tastefulness'. "This feature comes in N tasty flavors....
• aste: [primarily MIT] n. 1. The quality in a program that tends to be inversely proportional to the number of features, hacks, and kluges programmed into it.
  Also `tasty', `tasteful', `tastefulness'. "This feature comes in N tasty flavors....
• If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
  -- Hal Abelso...
• Sorry, I must have bypassed my good taste chip. -- Kryte
• It is not enough to have knowledge, one must also apply it.
  It is not enough to have wishes, one must also accomplish. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe...
• hacker n. [originally, someone who makes furniture with an axe] 1.
  A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary....