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Open Switch: [IBM: Prob. From Railroading] N. An Unresolved Question, Issue, Or Problem.
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:open switch: [IBM: prob. from railroading] n. An unresolved
question, issue, or problem.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
open switch n. [IBM: prob. from railroading] An unresolved question, issue, or problem.
wedgie: [Fairchild] n. A bug. Prob. related to {wedged}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
kahuna: /k*-hoo'n*/ [IBM: from the Hawaiian title for a shaman] n.
Synonym for {wizard}, {guru}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
glass: [IBM] n. Synonym for {silicon}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
enior bit: [IBM] n. Syn. {meta bit}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
zipperhead: [IBM] n. A person with a closed mind. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Suzie COBOL: /soo'zee koh'bol/ 1. [IBM: prob. from Frank Zappa's `Suzy Creamcheese'] n.
A coder straight out of training school who knows everything except the value of comments in plain English....
visionary: n. 1. One who hacks vision, in the sense of an Artificial Intelligence researcher working on the problem of getting computers to `see' things using TV cameras.
(There isn't any problem in sending information from a TV camera to a computer....
TCB: /T-C-B/ [IBM] n. 1. Trouble Came Back. An intermittent or difficult-to-reproduce problem that has failed to respond to neglect or {shotgun debugging}.
Compare {heisenbug}. Not to be confused with...