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• confuser: n. Common soundalike slang for `computer'.
  Usually encountered in compounds such as `confuser room', `personal confuser', `confuser guru'....
• POM /P-O-M/ n. Common abbreviation for phase of the moon.
  Usage: usually in the phrase `POM-dep flaky....
• POM: /P-O-M/ n. Common abbreviation for {phase of the moon}.
  Usage: usually in the phrase `POM-dependent', which means {flaky}....
• guru, n: A computer owner who can read the manual.
• eye candy /i:' kand`ee/ n. [from mainstream slang "ear candy"] A display of some sort that's presented to lusers to keep them distracted while the program performs necessary background tasks.
  Give 'em some eye candy while the back-end slurps that BLOB into core....
• amoeba n. Humorous term for the Commodore Amiga personal computer.
• holy wars n. [from Usenet, but may predate it; common] n.
  flame wars over religious issues. The paper by Danny Cohen that popularized the terms big-endian and little-endian in connection with the LSB-first/MSB-first controversy was entitled "On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace"....
• computron /kom'pyoo-tron`/ n. 1. [common] A notional unit of computing power combining instruction speed and storage capacity
  dimensioned roughly in instructions-per-second times megabytes-of-main-store times megabytes-of-mass-storage....
• cargo cult programming n. A style of (incompetent) programming dominated by ritual inclusion of code or program structures that serve no real purpose.
  A cargo cult programmer will usually explain the extra code as a way of working around some bug encountered in the past, but usually neither the bug nor the reason the code apparently avoided the bug was ever fully understood (compare shotgun debugging, voodoo pr The term `cargo cult' is a reference to aboriginal religions that grew up in the South Pacific after World War II....