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• wall follower n. A person or algorithm that compensates for lack of sophistication or native stupidity by efficiently following some simple procedure shown to have been effective in the past.
  Used of an algorithm, this is not necessarily pejorative...
• alescritter: /sayls'kri`tr/ n. Pejorative hackerism for a computer salesperson.
  Hackers tell the following joke: Q. What's the difference between a used-car dealer and a computer salesman?...
• droid: [from `android', SF terminology for a humanoid robot of essentially biological (as opposed to mechanical/electronic) construction] n.
  A person (esp. a low-level bureaucrat or service-business employee) exhibiting most of the following characteristic...
• code grinder: n. 1. A {suit}-wearing minion of the sort hired in legion strength by banks and insurance companies to implement payroll packages in RPG and other such unspeakable horrors.
  In its native habitat, the code grinder often removes the suit jacket to reveal an underplumage consisting of button-down shirt (starch optional) and a tie....
• fence: n. 1. A sequence of one or more distinguished ({out-of-band}) characters (or other data items)
  used to delimit a piece of data intended to be treated as a unit (the computer-science literature calls this a `sentinel')....
• Berkeley Quality Software: adj. (often abbreviated `BQS') Term used in a pejorative sense to refer to software that was apparently created by rather spaced-out hackers late at night to solve some unique problem.
  It usually has nonexistent, incomplete, or incorrect documentation, has been tested on at least two examples, and core dumps when anyone else attempts to use it....
• brute force adj. Describes a primitive programming style
  one in which the programmer relies on the computer's processing power instead of using his or her own intelligence to simplify the problem, often ignoring problems of scale and applying naive methods suited to small problems directly to large ones....
• gedanken /g*-dahn'kn/ adj. Ungrounded; impractical
  ot well-thought-out; untried; untested. `Gedanken' is a German word for `thought'....
• alescritter /sayls'kri`tr/ n. Pejorative hackerism for a computer salesperson.
  Hackers tell the following joke: Q. What's the difference between a used-car dealer and a computer salesman?...