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Ailed To The Wall: [like A Trophy] Adj. Said Of A Bug Finally Eliminated After Protracted, And Even Heroic, Effort.
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:nailed to the wall: [like a trophy] adj. Said of a bug finally
eliminated after protracted, and even heroic, effort.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
ailed to the wall adj. [like a trophy] Said of a bug finally eliminated after protracted, and even heroic, effort.
line eater, the: [USENET] n. 1. A bug in some now-obsolete versions of the netnews software that used to eat up to BUFSIZ bytes of the article text.
The bug was triggered by having the text of the article start with a space or tab....
losing: adj. Said of anything that is or causes a {lose} or {lossage}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
bug-for-bug compatible: n. Same as {bug-compatible}, with the additional implication that much tedious effort went into ensuring that each (known) bug was replicated.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
bug-compatible: adj. Said of a design or revision that has been badly compromised by a requirement to be compatible with {fossil}s or {misfeature}s in other programs or (esp.
) previous releases of itself. "MS-DOS 2.0 used \ as a path separator to be bug-compatible with some cretin's choice of / as an option character in 1....
defined as: adj. In the role of, usually in an organization-chart sense.
Pete is currently defined as bug prioritizer." Compare {logical}....
fragile: adj. Syn {brittle}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
wall: [WPI] interj. 1. An indication of confusion, usually spoken with a quizzical tone
Wall??" 2. A request for further explication....
baroque: adj. Feature-encrusted; complex; gaudy; verging on excessive.
Said of hardware or (esp.) software designs, this has many of the connotations of {elephantine} or {monstrosity} but is less extreme and not pejorative in itself....