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Lord High Fixer: [primarily British, From Gilbert & Sullivan's `lord High Executioner'] N.
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:lord high fixer: [primarily British, from Gilbert & Sullivan's
`lord high executioner'] n. The person in an organization who knows
the most about some aspect of a system. See {wizard}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
lord high fixer n. [primarily British, from Gilbert &
Sullivan's `lord high executioner'] The person in an organization who knows the most about some aspect of a system....
wizard: n. 1. A person who knows how a complex piece of software or hardware works (that is, who {grok}s it)
esp. someone who can find and fix bugs quickly in an emergency....
wizard n. 1. Transitively, a person who knows how a complex piece of software or hardware works (that is, who groks it)
esp. someone who can find and fix bugs quickly in an emergency....
WIZARD n. 1. A person who knows how a complex piece of software or hardware work
omeone who can find and fix his bugs in an emergency....
high bit: [from `high-order bit'] n. 1. The most significant bit in a byte.
2. By extension, the most significant part of something other than a data byte...
dump: n. 1. An undigested and voluminous mass of information about a problem or the state of a system
especially one routed to the slowest available output device (compare {core dump}), and most especially one consisting of hex or octal {runes} describing the byte-by-byte state of memory, mass storage, or some file....
ee-killer: [Sun] n. 1. A printer. 2. A person who wastes paper.
This epithet should be interpreted in a broad sense...
mundane: [from SF fandom] n. 1. A person who is not in science fiction fandom.
2. A person who is not in the computer industry. In this sense, most often an adjectival modifier as in "in my mundane life....
whacker: [University of Maryland: from {hacker}] n.
1. A person, similar to a {hacker}, who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities....