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• critical mass n. In physics, the minimum amount of fissionable material required to sustain a chain reaction.
  Of a software product, describes a condition of the software such that fixing one bug introduces one plus epsilon bugs....
• econd-system effect: n. (sometimes, more euphoniously
  `second-system syndrome') When one is designing the successor to a relatively small, elegant, and successful system, there is a tendency to become grandiose in one's success and design an {elephantine} feature-laden monstrosity....
• hotgun debugging: n. The software equivalent of {Easter egging}
  the making of relatively undirected changes to software in the hope that a bug will be perturbed out of existence....
• 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....
• ococo: adj. {Baroque} in the extreme. Used to imply that a program has become so encrusted with the software equivalent of gold leaf and curlicues that they have completely swamped the underlying design.
  Called after the later and more extreme forms of Baroque architecture and decoration prevalent during the mid-1700s in Europe....
• kit: [USENET; poss. fr. DEC slang for a full software distribution, as opposed to a patch or upgrade] n.
  A source software distribution that has been packaged in such a way that it can (theoretically) be unpacked and installed according to a series of steps using only standard UNIX tools, and entirely documented by some reasonable chain of references from the top-level {README file}....
• backward combatability: /bak'w*rd k*m-bat'*-bil'*-tee/ [from `backward compatibility'] n.
  A property of hardware or software revisions in which previous protocols, formats, layouts, etc....
• feature shock: [from Alvin Toffler's book title "Future Shock"] n.
  A user's (or programmer's!) confusion when confronted with a package that has too many features and poor introductory material....
• eyeball search: n.,v. To look for something in a mass of code or data with one's own native optical senso
  as opposed to using some sort of pattern matching software like {grep} or any other automated search tool....