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• fritterware n. An excess of capability that serves no productive end.
  The canonical example is font-diddling software on the Mac (see macdink)...
• window shopping n. [US Geological Survey] Among users of WIMP environments like X or the Macintosh, extended experimentation with new window colors, fonts, and icon shapes.
  This activity can take up hours of what might otherwise have been productive working time....
• window shopping: [US Geological Survey] n. Among users of {WIMP environment}s like {X} or the Macintosh, extended experimentation with new window colors, fonts, and icon shapes.
  This activity can take up hours of what might otherwise have been productive working time....
• macdink: /mak'dink/ [from the Apple Macintosh, which is said to encourage such behavior] vt.
  To make many incremental and unnecessary cosmetic changes to a program or file....
• macdink /mak'dink/ vt. [from the Apple Macintosh, which is said to encourage such behavior] To make many incremental and unnecessary cosmetic changes to a program or file.
  Often the subject of the macdinking would be better off without them....
• brute force adj. Describes a primitive programming style
  one in which the programmer relies on the computer's processing power instead of using his or her own intelligence to simplify the problem, often ignoring problems of scale and applying naive methods suited to small problems directly to large ones....
• bathtub curve n. Common term for the curve (resembling an end-to-end section of one of those claw-footed antique bathtubs) that describes the expected failure rate of electronics with time
  initially high, dropping to near 0 for most of the system's lifetime, then rising again as it `tires out'....
• bathtub curve: n. Common term for the curve (resembling an end-to-end section of one of those claw-footed antique bathtubs) that describes the expected failure rate of electronics with time
  initially high, dropping to near 0 for most of the system's lifetime, then rising again as it `tires out'....
• diddle 1. vt. To work with or modify in a not particularly serious manner.
  I diddled a copy of ADVENT so it didn't double-space all the time....