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• for free adj. [common] Said of a capability of a programming language or hardware that is available by its design without needing cleverness to impleme
  In APL, we get the matrix operations for free....
• clean: 1. adj. Used of hardware or software desig
  implies `elegance in the small', that is, a design or implementation that may not hold any surprises but does things in a way that is reasonably intuitive and relatively easy to comprehend from the outside....
• brain-damaged: 1. [generalization of `Honeywell Brain Damage' (HBD), a theoretical disease invented to explain certain utter cretinisms in Honeywell {{Multics}}] adj.
  Obviously wrong; {cretinous}; {demented}. There is an implication that the person responsible must have suffered brain damage, because he should have known better....
• fascist: adj. 1. Said of a computer system with excessive or annoying security barriers, usage limits, or access policies.
  The implication is that said policies are preventing hackers from getting interesting work done....
• copious free time: [Apple; orig. fr. the intro to Tom Lehrer's song "It Makes A Fellow Proud To Be A Soldier"] n.
  1. [used ironically to indicate the speaker's lack of the quantity in question] A mythical schedule slot for accomplishing tasks held to be unlikely or impossible....
• hacked off: [analogous to `pissed off'] adj. Said of system administrators who have become annoyed
  upset, or touchy owing to suspicions that their sites have been or are going to be victimized by crackers, or used for inappropriate, technically illegal, or even overtly criminal activities....
• That's not a bug! it's a Free Enhanced Feature!
• bottom-up implementation: n. Hackish opposite of the techspeak term `top-down design'.
  It is now received wisdom in most programming cultures that it is best to design from higher levels of abstraction down to lower, specifying sequences of action in increasing detail until you get to actual code....
• wedged: adj. 1. To be stuck, incapable of proceeding without help.
  This is different from having crashed. If the system has crashed, it has become totally non-functioning....