:evil and rude: adj. Both {evil} and {rude}, but with the
additional connotation that the rudeness was due to malice rather
than incompetence. Thus, for example: Microsoft's Windows NT is
evil because it's a competent implementation of a bad design;
it's rude because it's gratuitously incompatible with UNIX in
places where compatibility would have been as easy and effective to
do; but it's evil and rude because the incompatibilities are
apparently there not to fix design bugs in UNIX but rather to lock
hapless customers and developers into the Microsoft way. Hackish
evil and rude is close to the mainstream sense of
`evil'.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
additional connotation that the rudeness was due to malice rather
than incompetence. Thus, for example: Microsoft's Windows NT is
evil because it's a competent implementation of a bad design;
it's rude because it's gratuitously incompatible with UNIX in
places where compatibility would have been as easy and effective to
do; but it's evil and rude because the incompatibilities are
apparently there not to fix design bugs in UNIX but rather to lock
hapless customers and developers into the Microsoft way. Hackish
evil and rude is close to the mainstream sense of
`evil'.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
- evil and rude: adj. Both {evil} and {rude}, but with the
additional connotation that the rudeness was due to malice rather
than incompetence.
Thus, for example: Microsoft's Windows NT is evil... - evil: adj. As used by hackers, implies that some system,
program, person, or institution is sufficiently... - rude: [WPI] adj. 1. (of a program) Badly written. 2.
Functionally poor, e.g., a program that is very... - evil adj.
As used by hackers, implies that some system,
program, person, or institution is sufficiently maldesigned... - Bad and Wrong adj.
[Durham, UK] Said of something that
is both badly designed and wrongly executed.
This common term is the prototype of, and is used... - Evil Empire n.
[from Ronald Reagan's famous
characterization of the communist Soviet Union] Formerly IBM,
now Microsoft. Functionally, the company most hackers... - rude [WPI] adj.
1. (of a program) Badly written.
2. Functionally poor, e.g., a program that is very... - BAD: /B-A-D/ [IBM: acronym, `Broken As Designed'] adj.
Said of a program that is {bogus} because of bad... - all-elbows: [MS-DOS] adj. Of a TSR (terminate-and-stay-resident)
IBM PC program,
such as the N pop-up calendar and calculator utilities...
