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• Quote #403 People are flexible enough to make any theory look good for a while.
  -- Jaron Lanier [in his [4]Karma Vertigo essay]...
• 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....
• mouse ahead: vi. Point-and-click analog of `type ahead'.
  To manipulate a computer's pointing device (almost always a mouse in this usage, but not necessarily) and its selection or command buttons before a computer program is ready to accept such input, in anticipation of the program accepting the input....
• aive: adj. Untutored in the perversities of some particular program or system
  one who still tries to do things in an intuitive way, rather than the right way (in really good designs these coincide, but most designs aren't `really good' in the appropriate sense)....
• Alderson loop n. [Intel] A special version of an infinite loop where there is an exit condition available, but inaccessible in the current implementation of the code.
  Typically this is created while debugging user interface code....
• for the rest of us: [from the Mac slogan "The computer for the rest of us"] adj.
  1. Used to describe a {spiffy} product whose affordability shames other comparable products, or (more often) used sarcastically to describe {spiffy} but very overpriced products....
• mandelbug: /man'del-buhg/ [from the Mandelbrot set] n.
  A bug whose underlying causes are so complex and obscure as to make its behavior appear chaotic or even non-deterministic....
• hook: n. A software or hardware feature included in order to simplify later additions or changes by a user.
  For example, a simple program that prints numbers might always print them in base 10, but a more flexible version would let a variable determine what base to use...