Winner: 1. N. An Unexpectedly Good Situation, Program, Programmer, Or Person.

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• winner 1. n. An unexpectedly good situation, program, programmer, or person.
  2. `real winner': Often sarcastic, but also used as high praise (see also the note under user)....
• loser: n. An unexpectedly bad situation, program, programmer, or person.
  Someone who habitually loses. (Even winners can lose occasionally....
• crock: [from the American scatologism `crock of shit'] n.
  1. An awkward feature or programming technique that ought to be made cleaner....
• eal user: n. 1. A commercial user. One who is paying *real* money for his computer usage.
  2. A non-hacker. Someone using the system for an explicit purpose (a research project, a course, etc....
• loser n. An unexpectedly bad situation, program, programmer, or person.
  Someone who habitually loses. (Even winners can lose occasionally....
• bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
  one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....
• mundane: [from SF fandom] n. 1. A person who is not in science fiction fandom.
  2. A person who is not in the computer industry. In this sense, most often an adjectival modifier as in "in my mundane life....
• deadlock: n. 1. [techspeak] A situation wherein two or more processes are unable to proceed because each is waiting for one of the others to do something.
  A common example is a program communicating to a server, which may find itself waiting for output from the server before sending anything more to it, while the server is similarly waiting for more input from the controlling program before outputting anything....
• ken: /ken/ n. 1. [UNIX] Ken Thompson, principal inventor of UNIX.
  In the early days he used to hand-cut distribution tapes, often with a note that read "Love, ken"....