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demoparty n. [demoscene] Aboveground descendant of the copyparty, with emphasis shifted away from software piracy and towards compos.
Smaller demoparties, for 100 persons or less, are held...
demoscene /dem'oh-seen/ [also `demo scene'] A culture of multimedia hackers located primarily in Scandinavia and northern Europe.
Demoscene folklore recounts that when old-time warez d00dz c...
dentro /den'troh/ [demoscene] Combination of demo (sense 4) and intro.
Other name mixings include intmo, dentmo etc....
depeditate /dee-ped'*-tayt/ n. [by (faulty) analogy with `decapitate'] Humorously, to cut off the feet of.
When one is using some computer-aided typesetting tools, careless placement of ...
deprecated adj. Said of a program or feature that is considered obsolescent and in the process of being phased out, usually in favor of a specified replacement.
Deprecated features can, u...
derf /derf/ v.,n.
deserves to lose adj. [common] Said of someone who willfully does the Wrong Thing
humorously, if one uses a feature known to be marginal....
desk check n.,v. To grovel over hardcopy of source code, mentally simulating the control flow
a method of catching bugs....
despew /d*-spyoo'/ v. [Usenet] To automatically generate a large amount of garbage to the net, esp.
from an automated posting program gone wild. See ARMM....
Devil Book n. See daemon book, the term preferred by its authors.

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