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Weasel N. [Cambridge] A Naive User, One Who Deliberately Or Accidentally Does Things That Are Stupid Or Ill-advised.
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weasel n.
[Cambridge] A naive user, one who deliberately or
accidentally does things that are stupid or ill-advised. Roughly
synonymous with loser.
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weasel: n. [Cambridge] A naive user, one who deliberately or accidentally does things that are stupid or ill-advised.
Roughly synonymous with {loser}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
Quote #136 Fowler contends that "a dozen sentences are spoilt by ill-advised avoidance of repetition for every one that is spoilt by ill-advised repetition.
DAU /dow/ n. [German FidoNet] German acronym for Dü
mmster Anzunehmender User (stupidest imaginable user)....
DAU: /dow/ [German Fidonet] n. German acronym for D"ummster Anzunehmender User (stupidest imaginable user).
From the engineering-slang GAU for Gr"osster Anzunehmender Unfall, worst foreseeable accident, esp....
aive user n. A luser. Tends to imply someone who is ignorant mainly owing to inexperience.
When this is applied to someone who has experience, there is a definite implication of stupidity....
aive user: n. A {luser}. Tends to imply someone who is ignorant mainly owing to inexperience.
When this is applied to someone who *has* experience, there is a definite implication of stupidity....
aive: adj. Untutored in the perversities of some particular program or system
one who still tries to do things in an intuitive way, rather than the right way (in really good designs these coincide, but most designs aren't `really good' in the appropriate sense)....
aive adj. 1. Untutored in the perversities of some particular program or system
one who still tries to do things in an intuitive way, rather than the right way (in really good designs these coincide, but most designs aren't `really good' in the appropriate sense)....
One who is not wise himself cannot be well advised -- Machiavelli