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fat-finger 
transitive verb
- To accidentally press an adjacent button, e.g. while typing on a keyboard or entering a phone number. Happens more frequently as the button size is reduced, e.g. on cell phones.
Whoops, I just fat-fingered his phone number.
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- fat: chew the fat – crack a fat – (show 12 more)
- finger: cross (one's) fingers – finger – (show 14 more)
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feature creep
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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fencepost error
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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FFS
- For Fucks Sake
FFS Man not everything revolves around you
by Francine Flisher, Ipswich, Suffolk, UK, Mar 06 2009.
- acronym for "for fuck's sake."
by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Aug 11 2009.
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film at 11
noun
- Used in conversation to announce ordinary events, with a sarcastic implication that these events are earth-shattering. Expression is used in parody of TV newscasters.
The slut cheats on her boyfriend again - film at 11.
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- at: at the drop of a hat – at the end of (one's) rope – (show 33 more)
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firefight
noun
- "Putting out fires" (last-minute disasters) instead of performing one's official job.
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flame bait
noun
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flame war
noun
- An acrimonious dispute, especially when conducted on a public electronic forum.
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- war: be World War 3 – have a tug of war with cyclops
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flick
noun
- a movie.
That was a good flick.
Person A: What did you do on your date last night?
Person B: We had some dinner and caught a flick.by Anonymous, Jun 11 1998.
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FML
- acronym for "fuck my life."
by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Aug 11 2009.
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FOAD
verb
- acronym for "fuck off and die". Used mainly in computer-based conversation (instant messaging, email, text messaging, etc.)
by Dormouse, Nov 22 2003.
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FOAF
noun
- Acronym for "Friend Of A Friend." This term was not originated by hackers (it is used in Jan Brunvand's books on urban folklore), but is more recognized in hacker culture than in the mainstream.
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footprint
noun
- The minimum amount of some computer resource that a computer program occupies.
- The floor or desk area taken up by a piece of hardware.
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for free
adjective
- Said of a capability of a programming language or hardware that is available by its design without needing cleverness to implement.
In APL, we get the matrix operations for free.
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- for: along for the ride – bat for the other team – (show 60 more)
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four-color glossies
noun
- Literature created by marketroids that allegedly contains technical specs but which is in fact as superficial as possible without being totally content-free. Often applied as an indication of superficiality even when the material is printed on ordinary paper in black and white.
Forget the four-color glossies, give me the tech reference manuals.
- Applied by extension to manual pages that don't contain enough information to diagnose why the program doesn't produce the expected or desired output.
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- four: cooking on all four burners – four corners – (show 5 more)
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frag
verb
- to kill or seriously damage someone/something, though can be used playfully. Developed from videogames like Quake where your number of frags is your number of kills, but i've heard used in wider contexts.
I'm gonna frag your ass.
by Peter T., Sep 03 2005.
- To completely ruin something.
Forget that power supply, the lightning strike fragged it.
origin
- from Vietnam-era U.S. military slang via the games Doom and Quake.
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freeware
noun
- Freely-redistributable software. As the culture of the Internet has displaced the older BBS world, this term has lost ground to both open source and free software; it has increasingly tended to be restricted to software distributed in binary rather than source-code form.
notes
- At one time, freeware was a trademark of Andrew Fluegelman, the author of the well-known MS-DOS communication program PC-TALK III. It wasn't enforced after his mysterious disappearance and presumed death in 1984.
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fried
adjective
- under the influence of drugs, often LSD ("acid").
He was so fried last night.
by Jared Meyer, MO, USA, Jul 01 1997.
- permanently impaired due to consuming too much LSD ("acid").
He's done so much acid he's fried.
by William A., Big Sky, MT, USA, Jan 01 2000.
- non-functioning, in reference to electronic devices.
That phone is fried.
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fry
intransitive verb
- to be under the influence of drugs.
He was frying last night.
by Anonymous, Jan 02 2003.
- to die by the electric chair.
by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Aug 11 2009.
transitive verb
- to make fun of.
by Renee A., Sep 08 2004.
- to cause a piece of electronics to fail, usually in an unrecoverable way.
Yeah, I spilled some Coke into my monitor and fried it.
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FTL
- acronym for "For The Loss."
by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Aug 11 2009.