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• cretin: /kret'in/ or /kree'tn/ n. Congenital {loser}
  an obnoxious person; someone who can't do anything right....
• ANSI /an'see/ 1. n. [techspeak] The American National Standards Institute.
  ANSI, along with the International Organization for Standards (ISO), standardized the C programming language (see K&...
• TMRC and the MIT hacker culture of the early '60s seems to have developed in a milieu that remembered and still used some WWII military slang (see also foobar).
  It seems likely that `kluge' came to MIT via alumni of the many military electronics projects that had been located in Cambridge (many in MIT's venerable Building 20, in which TMRC is also located) during the war....
• fool: n. As used by hackers, specifically describes a person who habitually reasons from obviously or demonstrably incorrect premises and cannot be persuaded by evidence to do otherwise
  it is not generally used in its other senses, i....
• pam vt.,vi.,n. [from "Monty Python's Flying Circus"] 1.
  To crash a program by overrunning a fixed-size buffer with excessively large input data....
• There... I've run rings 'round you logically -- Monty Python's Flying Circu
• TELNET: /tel'net/ vt. To communicate with another Internet host using the TELNET ({RFC} 854) protocol (usually using a program of the same name).
  TOPS-10 people used the word IMPCOM, since that was the program name for them....
• TN: Take a Nap
• loser: n. An unexpectedly bad situation, program, programmer, or person.
  Someone who habitually loses. (Even winners can lose occasionally....