The Devil’s Dictionary 2.066 terms |
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B
- beta
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- Mainframe applications (archaic): A six to tweleve month period when professional testers exercise a program under real-world loads with production data, documenting the results.
- Desktop applications: The first successful compile.
- Web applications: When a cool codename has been picked and t-shirts printed. Also, some vague notions of what the program will do have been tossed around.
- BigCo
- A successful software company.
- BitTorrent
- Looting implemented as a communications protocol: the more people stealing something, the easier it is.
- blog
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To noisily and simultaneously void one’s spleen, stomach, bladder and
bowels.
“Get outta my way! I think I’m gonna blog!”
- blogosphere
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An poisonous environment of methane, self-satisfaction and other hot
gasses.
“The only creatures that can survive in the blogosphere are low-order molds, able to feed off the waste of others.”
- Burning Man
- A yearly attempt to create the perfect society by gathering many thousands of people in the middle of the desert. They eventually escape, however.