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Crewage: /skroo'*j/ N. Like {lossage} But Connotes That The Failure Is Due To A Designed-in Misfeature Rather Than A Simple Inadequacy Or A Mere Bug.
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:screwage: /skroo'*j/ n. Like {lossage} but connotes that the
failure is due to a designed-in misfeature rather than a simple
inadequacy or a mere bug.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
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crewage /skroo'*j/ n. Like lossage but connotes that the failure is due to a designed-in misfeature rather than a simple inadequacy or a mere bug.
lossage: /los'*j/ n. The result of a bug or malfunction.
This is a mass or collective noun. "What a loss!...
winnage: /win'*j/ n. The situation when a lossage is corrected, or when something is winning.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
misfeature: /mis-fee'chr/ or /mis'fee`chr/ n. A feature that eventually causes lossage, possibly because it is not adequate for a new situation that has evolved.
Since it results from a deliberate and properly implemented feature, a misfeature is not a bug....
cough and die: v. Syn. {barf}. Connotes that the program is throwing its hands up by design rather than because of a bug or oversight.
The parser saw a control-A in its input where it was looking for a printable, so it coughed and died....
crew: [MIT] n. A {lose}, usually in software. Especially used for user-visible misbehavior caused by a bug or misfeature.
This use has become quite widespread outside MIT. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
precedence lossage: /pre's*-dens los'*j/ [C programmers] n.
Coding error in an expression due to unexpected grouping of arithmetic or logical operators by the compiler....
brain-dead: adj. Brain-damaged in the extreme. It tends to imply terminal design failure rather than malfunction or simple stupidity.
This comm program doesn't know how to send a break how brain-dead!...
oppage: /sto'p*j/ n. Extreme {lossage} that renders something (usually something vital) completely unusable.
The recent system stoppage was caused by a {fried} transformer....