A contract programmer, as opposed to a
full-time staff member. All the connotations of this term
suggested by innumerable spaghetti Westerns are intentional.
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....