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• gang bang: n. The use of large numbers of loosely coupled programmers in an attempt to wedge a great many features into a product in a short time.
  Though there have been memorable gang bangs (e....
• Mongolian Hordes technique n. [poss. from the Sixties counterculture expression `Mongolian clusterfuck' for a public orgy] Development by gang bang.
  Implies that large numbers of inexperienced programmers are being put on a job better performed by a few skilled ones (but see bazaar)....
• firefighting: n. 1. What sysadmins have to do to correct sudden operational problems.
  An opposite of hacking. "Been hacking your new newsreader?...
• Mongolian Hordes technique: [poss. from the Sixties counterculture expression `Mongolian clusterfuck' for a public orgy] n.
  Development by {gang bang}. Implies that large numbers of inexperienced programmers are being put on a job better performed by a few skilled ones....
• firefighting n. 1. What sysadmins have to do to correct sudden operational problems.
  An opposite of hacking. "Been hacking your new newsreader?...
• Internet n. The mother of all networks. First incarnated beginning in 1969 as the ARPANET, a U.
  S. Department of Defense research testbed. Though it has been widely believed that the goal was to develop a network architecture for military command-and-control that could survive disruptions up to and including nuclear war, this is a myth...
• TeX /tekh/ n. An extremely powerful macro-based text formatter written by Donald E.
  Knuth, very popular in the computer-science community (it is good enough to have displaced Unix troff, the other favored formatter, even at many Unix installations)....
• bit-paired keyboard n.,obs. (alt. `bit-shift keyboard') A non-standard keyboard layout that seems to have originated with the Teletype ASR-33 and remained common for several years on early computer equipment.
  The ASR-33 was a mechanical device (see EOU), so the only way to generate the character codes from keystrokes was by some physical linkage....
• 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....