:feature creature: [poss. fr. slang `creature feature' for a
horror movie] n. 1. One who loves to add features to designs or
programs, perhaps at the expense of coherence, concision, or
{taste}. 2. Alternately, a mythical being that induces
otherwise rational programmers to perpetrate such crocks. See also
{feeping creaturism}, {creeping featurism}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
horror movie] n. 1. One who loves to add features to designs or
programs, perhaps at the expense of coherence, concision, or
{taste}. 2. Alternately, a mythical being that induces
otherwise rational programmers to perpetrate such crocks. See also
{feeping creaturism}, {creeping featurism}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
- feature creature: [poss. fr. slang `creature feature' for a
horror movie] n.
1. One who loves to add features to designs or programs... - 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... - creeping featurism /kree'ping fee'chr-izm/ n.
[common] 1.
Describes a systematic tendency to load more chrome... - feeping creature: [from {feeping creaturism}] n. An unnecessary
feature;
a bit of {chrome} that, in the speaker's judgment,... - feeping creature n.
[from feeping creaturism] An
unnecessary feature;
a bit of chrome that, in the speaker's judgment... - feeping creaturism: /fee'ping kree`ch*r-izm/ n. A deliberate
spoonerism for {creeping featurism},
meant to imply that the system or program in question... - taste: [primarily MIT] n. 1. The quality in a program that tends
to be inversely proportional to the number of features,
hacks, and kluges programmed into it. Also `tasty'... - second-system effect: n. (sometimes, more euphoniously,
`second-system syndrome') When one is designing the... - creeping elegance: n. Describes a tendency for parts of a design
to become {elegant} past the point of diminishing return,
something which often happens at the expense of the...
From the same category:
- nano: /nan'oh/ [CMU: from `nanosecond'] n. A brief period of
time.
"Be with you in a nano" means you really will be free... - The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday
they might force their beliefs on us.
Mario... - Camouflage condoms:
So they won't see you coming... - Spectroscopists do it until it
hertz... - We don't smoke and we don't chew, and we don't go with girls that do.
Walter...
