Related:

• vulture capitalist: n. Pejorative hackerism for `venture capitalist'
  deriving from the common practice of pushing contracts that deprive inventors of control over their own innovations and most of the money they ought to have made from them....
• desk check: n.,v. To {grovel} over hardcopy of source code, mentally simulating the control flow
  a method of catching bugs. No longer common practice in this age of on-screen editing, fast compiles, and sophisticated debuggers --- though some maintain stoutly that it ought to be....
• gripenet: [IBM] n. A wry (and thoroughly unofficial) name for IBM's internal VNET system
  deriving from its common use by IBMers to voice pointed criticism of IBM management that would be taboo in more formal channels....
• alescritter: /sayls'kri`tr/ n. Pejorative hackerism for a computer salesperson.
  Hackers tell the following joke: Q. What's the difference between a used-car dealer and a computer salesman?...
• paghetti inheritance: n. [encountered among users of object-oriented languages that use inheritance
  uch as Smalltalk] A convoluted class-subclass graph, often resulting from carelessly deriving subclasses from other classes just for the sake of reusing their code....
• Missed'em-five: n. Pejorative hackerism for AT&T System V UNIX, generally used by {BSD} partisans in a bigoted mood.
  (The synonym `SysVile' is also encountered.) See {software bloat}, {Berzerkeley}....
• BUAG: // [abbreviation, from alt.fan.warlord] n. Big Ugly ASCII Graphic.
  Pejorative term for ugly {ASCII ART}, especially as found in {sig block}s....
• dickless workstation: n. Extremely pejorative hackerism for `diskless workstation'
  a class of botches including the Sun 3/50 and other machines designed exclusively to network with an expensive central disk server....
• Open DeathTrap: n. Abusive hackerism for the Santa Cruz Operation's `Open DeskTop' product, a Motif-based graphical interface over their UNIX.
  The funniest part is that this was coined by SCO's own developers....