:bogotify: /boh-go't*-fi:/ vt. To make or become bogus. A
program that has been changed so many times as to become completely
disorganized has become bogotified. If you tighten a nut too hard
and strip the threads on the bolt, the bolt has become bogotified
and you had better not use it any more. This coinage led to the
notional `autobogotiphobia' defined as `the fear of becoming
bogotified'; but is not clear that the latter has ever been
`live' jargon rather than a self-conscious joke in jargon about
jargon. See also {bogosity}, {bogus}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
program that has been changed so many times as to become completely
disorganized has become bogotified. If you tighten a nut too hard
and strip the threads on the bolt, the bolt has become bogotified
and you had better not use it any more. This coinage led to the
notional `autobogotiphobia' defined as `the fear of becoming
bogotified'; but is not clear that the latter has ever been
`live' jargon rather than a self-conscious joke in jargon about
jargon. See also {bogosity}, {bogus}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
- bogotify /boh-go't*-fi:/ vt.
To make or become bogus.
A program that has been changed so many times as... - bogus: adj. 1. Non-functional. "Your patches are bogus."
2.
Useless. "OPCON is a bogus program." 3. False. "Your... - bogon /boh'gon/ n.
[very common; by analogy with
proton/electron/neutron,
but doubtless reinforced after 1980 by the similarity... - bogus adj.
1. Non-functional. "Your patches are bogus."
2.
Useless. "OPCON is a bogus program." 3. False. "Your... - bug n.
An unwanted and unintended property of a program or
piece of hardware,
esp. one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym... - quantifiers
In techspeak and jargon, the standard metric
prefixes used in the SI (Système International) conventions for
scientific measurement have dual uses.
With units of time or things that come in powers... - creeping featurism: /kree'ping fee'chr-izm/ n. 1. Describes a
systematic tendency to load more {chrome} and {feature}s onto
systems at the expense of whatever elegance they may have possessed
when originally designed.
See also {feeping creaturism}. "You know, the main... - bogometer: /boh-gom'-*t-er/ n. A notional instrument for
measuring {bogosity}.
Compare the `wankometer' described in the {wank}... - second-system effect: n. (sometimes, more euphoniously,
`second-system syndrome') When one is designing the...
