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• management n. 1. Corporate power elites distinguished primarily by their distance from actual productive work and their chronic failure to manage (see also suit).
  Spoken derisively, as in "Management decided that ....
• uit n. 1. Ugly and uncomfortable `business clothing' often worn by non-hackers.
  Invariably worn with a `tie', a strangulation device that partially cuts off the blood supply to the brain....
• uit: n. 1. Ugly and uncomfortable `business clothing' often worn by non-hackers.
  Invariably worn with a `tie', a strangulation device that partially cuts off the blood supply to the brain....
• ITS /I-T-S/ n. 1. Incompatible Time-sharing System, an influential though highly idiosyncratic operating system written for PDP-6s and PDP-10s at MIT and long used at the MIT AI Lab.
  Much AI-hacker jargon derives from ITS folklore, and to have been `an ITS hacker' qualifies one instantly as an old-timer of the most venerable sort....
• pseudosuit: /soo'doh-s[y]oot`/ n. A {suit} wannabee
  a hacker who has decided that he wants to be in management or administration and begins wearing ties, sport coats, and (shudder!...
• pseudosuit /soo'doh-s[y]oot`/ n. A suit wannabee
  a hacker who has decided that he wants to be in management or administration and begins wearing ties, sport coats, and (shudder!...
• TCP/IP /T'C-P I'P/ n. 1. [Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol] The wide-area-networking protocol that makes the Internet work
  and the only one most hackers can speak the name of without laughing or retching....
• crock: [from the American scatologism `crock of shit'] n.
  1. An awkward feature or programming technique that ought to be made cleaner....
• Brooks's Law prov. "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later" -- a result of the fact that the expected advantage from splitting development work among N programmers is O(N) (that i
  proportional to N), but the complexity and communications cost associated with coordinating and then merging their work is O(N^2) (that is, proportional to the square of N)....