Related:

• flaky adj. (var sp. `flakey') Subject to frequent lossage.
  This use is of course related to the common slang use of the word to describe a person as eccentric, crazy, or just unreliable....
• dodgy: adj. Syn. with {flaky}. Preferred outside the U.S. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• hairy: adj. 1. Annoyingly complicated. "{DWIM} is incredibly hairy.
  2. Incomprehensible. "{DWIM} is incredibly hairy....
• barney: n. In Commonwealth hackish, `barney' is to {fred} (sense #1) as {bar} is to {foo}.
  That is, people who commonly use `fred' as their first metasyntactic variable will often use `barney' second....
• dodgy adj. Syn. with flaky. Preferred outside the U.S.
• up: adj. 1. Working, in order. "The down escalator is up.
  Oppose {down}. 2. `bring up': vt. To create a working version and start it....
• hairy adj. 1. Annoyingly complicated. "DWIM is incredibly hairy.
  2. Incomprehensible. "DWIM is incredibly hairy....
• wank: /wangk/ [Columbia University: prob. by mutation from Commonwealth slang v.
  `wank', to masturbate] n.,v. Used much as {hack} is elsewhere, as a noun denoting a clever technique or person or the result of such cleverness....
• mart terminal: n. 1. A terminal that has enough computing capability to render graphics or to offload some kind of front-end processing from the computer it talks to.
  The development of workstations and personal computers has made this term and the product it describes semi-obsolescent, but one may still hear variants of the phrase `act like a smart terminal' used to describe the behavior of workstations or PCs with respect to programs that execute almost entirely out of a remote {server}'s storage, using said devices as displays....