adjective

• Poorly built, possibly over-complex.

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  by The Jargon File, Aug 14 2009  (Edit definition)

• acronym for "cover your ass."

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  by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Aug 11 2009  (Edit definition)

• "see ya". Used mainly in computer-based conversation (instant messaging, email, text messaging, etc.)

  by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Aug 11 2009  (Edit definition)

transitive verb

• To clear a hosed condition.

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  by The Jargon File, Aug 14 2009  (Edit definition)

• acronym for "don't give a fuck."

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  by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Aug 11 2009  (Edit definition)

verb

• to fail in a grand way.

  The converter choked on an FF in its input and died horribly

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  by The Jargon File, Aug 14 2009  (Edit definition)

• acronym for "do I look like I give a shit."

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  by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Aug 11 2009  (Edit definition)

adjective

• underpowered.

  GNUMACS will never work on that dink machine.

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• small.

  by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Aug 26 2009  (Edit definition)

noun

• equipment that is non-functional and halfway expected to remain so, especially obsolete equipment kept around for political reasons or ostensibly as a backup.

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  by The Jargon File, Aug 14 2009  (Edit definition)

verb

• When someone who should know better succumbs to marketing influences and actually begins to believe the propaganda being dished out by a vendor.

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origin

• The term originates in the suicide of 914 followers of Jim Jones's People's Temple cult in Guyana in 1978 (there are also resonances with Ken Kesey's Electric Kool-Aid Acid Tests from the 1960s).

  by The Jargon File, Aug 14 2009  (Edit definition)

noun

• A feature of a computer program that only presents itself in response to some undocumented set of commands or keystrokes, intended as a joke or to display program credits.

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notes

• One well-known early Easter egg found in a couple of OSes caused them to respond to the command "make love" with "not war?". Many personal computers have much more elaborate eggs hidden in ROM, including lists of the developers' names, political exhortations, snatches of music, and (in one case) graphics images of the entire development team.

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origin

• from the custom of the Easter Egg hunt observed in the U.S. and many parts of Europe.

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intransitive verb

• To search the net for your name or links to your web pages.

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noun

• an attractive person.

  That guy was complete eye candy.

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  by Gin, Canada, May 18 2002  (Edit definition)

• an attractive but unintelligent person.

  Sarah is eye candy.

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  by Rafaela M., San Diego, CA, USA, May 12 2003  (Edit definition)

• an attractive but otherwise unimportant person.

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  by Michaela S., Jul 18 2005  (Edit definition)

• non-functional but pretty computer graphics.

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  by The Jargon File, Aug 14 2009  (Edit definition)

• acronym for "face to face". Used mainly in computer-based conversation (instant messaging, email, text messaging, etc.)

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  by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Aug 11 2009  (Edit definition)

• acronym for "frequently asked questions(s)". Used frequently in computing.

  by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Aug 11 2009  (Edit definition)

noun

• A compendium of accumulated lore, posted periodically to the internet. Also "FAQ list".

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  by The Jargon File, Aug 14 2009  (Edit definition)

noun

• The condition where more and more features get added to a system that it becomes difficult to use, requires more computer resources, etc.

  Emacs has a bad case of feature creep

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  by The Jargon File, Aug 14 2009  (Edit definition)

noun

• A problem with the discrete equivalent of a boundary condition, often exhibited in programs by iterative loops. From the following problem:
  
  "If you build a fence 100 feet long with posts 10 feet apart, how many posts do you need?"
  
  10 is an incorrect answer.

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• acronym for "for fuck's sake."

  FFS, man, not everything revolves around you!

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  by Francine Flisher, Ipswich, Suffolk, UK, Mar 06 2009  (Edit definition)

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  by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Aug 11 2009  (Edit definition)

noun

• "Putting out fires" (last-minute disasters) instead of performing one's official job.

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  by The Jargon File, Aug 14 2009  (Edit definition)