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• estriction n. A bug or design error that limits a program's capabilities, and which is sufficiently egregious that nobody can quite work up enough nerve to describe it as a feature.
  Often used (esp. by marketroid types) to make it sound as though some crippling bogosity had been intended by the designers all along, or was forced upon them by arcane technical constraints of a nature no mere user could possibly comprehend (these claims are almost invariably false)....
• hook n. A software or hardware feature included in order to simplify later additions or changes by a user.
  For example, a simple program that prints numbers might always print them in base 10, but a more flexible version would let a variable determine what base to use...
• hook: n. A software or hardware feature included in order to simplify later additions or changes by a user.
  For example, a simple program that prints numbers might always print them in base 10, but a more flexible version would let a variable determine what base to use...
• They know your name, address, telephone number, credit card numbers, who ELSE is driving the car for insurance, .
  .. your driver's license number. In the state of Massachusetts, this is the same number as that used for Social Security, unless you object to such use....
• estriction: n. A {bug} or design error that limits a program's capabilities, and which is sufficiently egregious that nobody can quite work up enough nerve to describe it as a {feature}.
  Often used (esp. by {marketroid} types) to make it sound as though some crippling bogosity had been intended by the designers all along, or was forced upon them by arcane technical constraints of a nature no mere user could possibly comprehend (these claims are almost invariably false)....
• Economists are people who work with numbers but don't have the personality to be accountants.
• I love California. I grew up in Phoenix, Arizona. A lot of people forget that.
  -- Vice President Dan Quayle...
• I grew up Catholic. Then I grew up. -- Chris Pirillo (chris@lockergnome.com)
• The following appeared in the letter to an editor of a Myrian newspaper.
  "Under Governor Winslow's leadership over the past four years, Myria has enjoyed unprecedented prosperity....