:chrome: [from automotive slang via wargaming] n. Showy features
added to attract users but contributing little or nothing to
the power of a system. "The 3D icons in Motif are just chrome,
but they certainly are *pretty* chrome!" Distinguished from
{bells and whistles} by the fact that the latter are usually
added to gratify developers' own desires for featurefulness.
Often used as a term of contempt.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
added to attract users but contributing little or nothing to
the power of a system. "The 3D icons in Motif are just chrome,
but they certainly are *pretty* chrome!" Distinguished from
{bells and whistles} by the fact that the latter are usually
added to gratify developers' own desires for featurefulness.
Often used as a term of contempt.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
- chrome n.
[from automotive slang via wargaming] Showy features
added to attract users but contributing little or nothing to
the power of a system.
"The 3D icons in Motif are just chrome, but they... - bells and whistles: [by analogy with the toyboxes on theater
organs] n.
Features added to a program or system to make it more... - bells and whistles n.
[common] Features added to a
program or system to make it more flavorful from a hacker's
point of view,
without necessarily adding to its utility for its ... - feeping creature: [from {feeping creaturism}] n. An unnecessary
feature;
a bit of {chrome} that, in the speaker's judgment,... - syntactic sugar: [coined by Peter Landin] n. Features added to a
language or other formalism to make it `sweeter' for humans,
features which do not affect the expressiveness of... - wizard mode: [from {rogue}] n. A special access mode of a
program or system,
usually passworded, that permits some users godlike... - feeping creature n.
[from feeping creaturism] An
unnecessary feature;
a bit of chrome that, in the speaker's judgment... - 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... - smoke: vi. 1. To {crash} or blow up, usually spectacularly.
"The new version smoked, just like the last one...
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we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering... - An anthropologist at Tulane has just come back from a field trip to
New Guinea with reports of a tribe so primitive that they have Tide but
not new Tide with lemon-fresh Borax."
-
David... - To beat the grass is to risk startling the
snake... - Q: What did the instructor at the school for Kamikazi pilots
say to his students?
A: Watch closely. I'm only going to do this once... - Reflect on your present blessings, of which everyone has many,
not on your past misfortunes, of which all people have...
