user, n:
The word computer professionals use when they mean "idiot."
-- Dave Barry, "Claw Your Way to the Top"
[I always thought "computer professional" was the phrase hackers used
when they meant "idiot." Ed.]
The word computer professionals use when they mean "idiot."
-- Dave Barry, "Claw Your Way to the Top"
[I always thought "computer professional" was the phrase hackers used
when they meant "idiot." Ed.]
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- USER, n.:
The word computer professionals use when they mean idiot.
Dave Barry, Claw Your Way to the... - USER, n.:
The word computer professionals use when they mean "idiot."
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Dave Barry, "Claw Your Way to the... - User - a technical term used by computer pros.
See idiot... - GC: /G-C/ [from LISP terminology; `Garbage Collect']
1.
vt. To clean up and throw away useless things. "I... - foreground: [UNIX] vt. To bring a task to the top of one's
{stack} for immediate processing,
and hackers often use it in this sense for non-computer... - Computer (com-pyoo-ter) n.
Incredibly fast idiot... - GC /G-C/
[from LISP terminology; `Garbage Collect']
1.
vt. To clean up and throw away useless things. "I... - foreground vt.
[Unix; common] To bring a task to the
top of one's stack for immediate processing,
and hackers often use it in this sense for non-computer... - What I think is that the F-word is basically just a convenient nasty-
sounding word that we tend to use when we would really...
