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• est n. 1. Real users bashing on a prototype long enough to get thoroughly acquainted with it, with careful monitoring and followup of the results.
  2. Some bored random user trying a couple of the simpler features with a developer looking over his or her shoulder, ready to pounce on mistakes....
• demo: /de'moh/ [short for `demonstration'] 1. v. To demonstrate a product or prototype.
  A far more effective way of inducing bugs to manifest than any number of {test} runs, especially when important people are watching....
• eality check: n. 1. The simplest kind of test of software or hardware
  doing the equivalent of asking it what 2 + 2 is and seeing if you get 4....
• demo /de'moh/ [short for `demonstration'] 1. v. To demonstrate a product or prototype.
  A far more effective way of inducing bugs to manifest than any number of test runs, especially when important people are watching....
• eal user: n. 1. A commercial user. One who is paying *real* money for his computer usage.
  2. A non-hacker. Someone using the system for an explicit purpose (a research project, a course, etc....
• letterbomb: 1. n. A piece of {email} containing {live data} intended to do nefarious things to the recipient's machine or terminal.
  It is possible, for example, to send letterbombs that will lock up some specific kinds of terminals when they are viewed, so thoroughly that the user must cycle power (see {cycle}, sense 3) to unwedge them....
• oy problem: [AI] n. A deliberately oversimplified case of a challenging problem used to investigate, prototype, or test algorithms for a real problem.
  Sometimes used pejoratively. See also {gedanken}, {toy program}....
• anity check: n. 1. The act of checking a piece of code (or anything else, e.
  g., a USENET posting) for completely stupid mistakes....
• eal user n. 1. A commercial user. One who is paying real money for his computer usage.
  2. A non-hacker. Someone using the system for an explicit purpose (a research project, a course, etc....