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User, N: The Word Computer Professionals Use When They Mean "idiot.
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user, n:
The word computer professionals use when they mean "idiot."
-- Dave Barry, "Claw Your Way to the Top"
[I always thought "computer professional" was the phrase hackers used
when they meant "idiot." Ed.]
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USER, n.: The word computer professionals use when they mean idiot.
-- Dave Barry, Claw Your Way to the Top...
USER, n.: The word computer professionals use when they mean "idiot.
-- Dave Barry, "Claw Your Way to the Top...
User - a technical term used by computer pros. See idiot.
GC: /G-C/ [from LISP terminology; `Garbage Collect'] 1.
vt. To clean up and throw away useless things. "I think I'll GC the top of my desk today....
foreground: [UNIX] vt. To bring a task to the top of one's {stack} for immediate processing, and hackers often use it in this sense for non-computer tasks.
If your presentation is due next week, I guess I'd better foreground writing up the design document....
Computer (com-pyoo-ter) n.-Incredibly fast idiot!
GC /G-C/ [from LISP terminology; `Garbage Collect'] 1.
vt. To clean up and throw away useless things. "I think I'll GC the top of my desk today....
foreground vt. [Unix; common] To bring a task to the top of one's stack for immediate processing, and hackers often use it in this sense for non-computer tasks.
If your presentation is due next week, I guess I'd better foreground writing up the design document....
What I think is that the F-word is basically just a convenient nasty- sounding word that we tend to use when we would really like to come up with a terrifically witty insul
he kind Winston Churchill always came up with when enormous women asked him stupid questions at parties....