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The Feature Which You Claim To Have Discovered In Unix Is Almost Certainly Due To Sheer Incompetence
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The feature which you claim to have discovered in Unix is almost certainly
due to sheer incompetence: go away!
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The feature which you claim to have discovered in Unix is almost certainly due to an act of God
why don't you read the documentation?...
crock n. [from the American scatologism `crock of shit'] 1.
An awkward feature or programming technique that ought to be made cleaner....
crock: [from the American scatologism `crock of shit'] n.
1. An awkward feature or programming technique that ought to be made cleaner....
Some people claim that the UNIX learning curve is steep, but at least you only have to climb it once.
bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....
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evil and rude adj. Both evil and rude, but with the additional connotation that the rudeness was due to malice rather than incompetence.
Thus, for example: Microsoft's Windows NT is evil because it's a competent implementation of a bad desig...
Create the impression that you have already reached your level of incompetence.
-- Peter's Rule for Creative Incompetence...
hosed: adj. Same as {down}. Used primarily by UNIX hackers.
Humorous: also implies a condition thought to be relatively easy to reverse....