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Crew: [MIT] N. A {lose}, Usually In Software. Especially Used For User-visible Misbehavior Caused By A Bug Or Misfeature.
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:screw: [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
Related:
crew n. [MIT] 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....
win: [MIT] 1. vi. To succeed. A program wins if no unexpected conditions arise, or (especially) if it sufficiently {robust} to take exceptions in stride.
2. n. Success, or a specific instance thereof....
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....
demon: n. 1. [MIT] A portion of a program that is not invoked explicitly, but that lies dormant waiting for some condition(s) to occur.
See {daemon}. The distinction is that demons are usually processes within a program, while daemons are usually programs running on an operating system....
TMRCie: /tmerk'ee/, [MIT] n. A denizen of {TMRC}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
win [MIT; now common everywhere] 1. vi. To succeed.
A program wins if no unexpected conditions arise, or (especially) if it sufficiently robust to take exceptions in stride....
howstopper: n. A hardware or (especially) software bug that makes an implementation effectively unusable
one that absolutely has to be fixed before development can go on....
umber-crunching: n. Computations of a numerical nature, esp.
those that make extensive use of floating-point numbers....
CTY: /sit'ee/ or /C-T-Y/ n. [MIT] The terminal physically associated with a computer's system {{console}}.
The term is a contraction of `Console {tty}', that is, `Console TeleTYpe'....