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• drool-proof paper n. Documentation that has been obsessively dumbed dow
  o the point where only a cretin could bear to read it, is said to have succumbed to the `drool-proof paper syndrome' or to have been `written on drool-proof paper'....
• Macintrash: /mak'in-trash`/ n. The Apple Macintosh, as described by a hacker who doesn't appreciate being kept away from the *real computer* by the interface.
  The term {maggotbox} has been reported in regular use in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina....
• point-and-drool interface: n. Parody of the techspeak term `point-and-shoot interface', describing a windows, icons, and mouse-based interface such as is found on the Macintosh.
  The implication, of course, is that such an interface is only suitable for idiots....
• documentation:: n. The multiple kilograms of macerated, pounded, steamed, bleached, and pressed trees that accompany most modern software or hardware products (see also {tree-killer}).
  Hackers seldom read paper documentation and (too) often resist writing i...
• Do not expose your LaserWriter to fire or intense heat. -- Apple LaserWriter manual
• user-friendly: adj. Programmer-hostile. Generally used by hackers in a critical tone
  o describe systems that hold the user's hand so obsessively that they make it painful for the more experienced and knowledgeable to get any work done....
• point-and-drool interface n. Parody of the techspeak term `point-and-shoot interface', describing a windows, icons, and mouse-based interface such as is found on the Macintosh.
  The implication, of course, is that such an interface is only suitable for idiots....
• highly: [scientific computation] adv. The preferred modifier for overstating an understatement.
  As in: `highly nonoptimal', the worst possible way to do something...
• menuitis: /men`yoo-i:'tis/ n. Notional disease suffered by software with an obsessively simple-minded menu interface and no escape.
  Hackers find this intensely irritating and much prefer the flexibility of command-line or language-style interfaces, especially those customizable via macros or a special-purpose language in which one can encode useful hacks....