:buried treasure: n. A surprising piece of code found in some
program. While usually not wrong, it tends to vary from {crufty}
to {bletcherous}, and has lain undiscovered only because it was
functionally correct, however horrible it is. Used sarcastically,
because what is found is anything *but* treasure. Buried
treasure almost always needs to be dug up and removed. "I just
found that the scheduler sorts its queue using {bubble sort}!
Buried treasure!"
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
program. While usually not wrong, it tends to vary from {crufty}
to {bletcherous}, and has lain undiscovered only because it was
functionally correct, however horrible it is. Used sarcastically,
because what is found is anything *but* treasure. Buried
treasure almost always needs to be dug up and removed. "I just
found that the scheduler sorts its queue using {bubble sort}!
Buried treasure!"
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
- buried treasure n.
A surprising piece of code found in some
program.
While usually not wrong, it tends to vary from crufty... - Otto: I found something! [pulls a briefcase from the ground]
Wiggum:
[opens it] It's just a piece of paper. Homer: It's... - TECO /tee'koh/ n.,v. obs.
1. [originally an acronym for
`[paper] Tape Editor and COrrector';
later, `Text Editor and COrrector'] n. A text editor... - Somewhere nearby is colossal cave, where others have found fortunes in
treasure treasure and gold,
though it is rumored that some who enter are never... - I treasure this strange combination found in very few persons:
a fierce desire for life as well as a lucid perception... - Abe: 61... 62... 63... Oh no! 63! He's out of air! I've sent my only
grandson to a watery gra.
64! He's found the treasure! I'm rich! -- A wide... - gweep: /gweep/ [WPI] 1. v. To {hack}, usually at night.
At WPI, from 1977 onwards, one who gweeped coud... - livelock: /li:v'lok/ n. A situation in which some critical stage
of a task is unable to finish because its clients perpetually
create more work for it to do after they have been serviced but
before it can clear its queue.
Differs from {deadlock} in that the process is not... - one-line fix: n. Used (often sarcastically) of a change to a
program that is thought to be trivial or insignificant right up to
the moment it crashes the system.
Usually `cured' by another one-line fix. See also...
