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• dumbed down adj. Simplified, with a strong connotation of oversimplified.
  Often, a marketroid will insist that the interfaces and documentation of software be dumbed down after the designer has burned untold gallons of midnight oil making it smart....
• WYSIWYG: /wiz'ee-wig/ adj. Describes a user interface under which "What You See Is What You Ge
  as opposed to one that uses more-or-less obscure commands that do not result in immediate visual feedback....
• WYSIWYG /wiz'ee-wig/ adj. Describes a user interface under which "What You See Is What You Ge
  as opposed to one that uses more-or-less obscure commands that do not result in immediate visual feedback....
• drool-proof paper: n. Documentation that has been obsessively {dumbed down}
  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'....
• Whenever somebody gives you a spec for some new technology, if you can't understand the spec, don't worry too much.
  Nobody else is going to understand it, either, and it's probably not going to be important....
• Quote #401 In an essay about programming, Ellen Ullman tells a great anecdote about a programmer who was so socially inept that they could only communicate with him via email
  even they all shared the same office. She also write...
• 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....
• Berkeley Quality Software: adj. (often abbreviated `BQS') Term used in a pejorative sense to refer to software that was apparently created by rather spaced-out hackers late at night to solve some unique problem.
  It usually has nonexistent, incomplete, or incorrect documentation, has been tested on at least two examples, and core dumps when anyone else attempts to use it....
• proprietary: adj. 1. In {marketroid}-speak, superio
  implies a product imbued with exclusive magic by the unmatched brilliance of the company's own hardware or software designers....