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C
- C#
- A harbinger of the apocalypse, the final sign of the coming of the End Times, a portent of doom. Not coincidentally, a fairly well-designed Microsoft product.
- caffeine
- A contract, wherein a regular heartbeat is exchanged for the ability to introduce subtle bugs, late at night, the day before a product ships.
- cluetrain
- One of a series of mythical locomotives, slavishly worshiped by bad-metaphor fetishists for their rhetorical value; they ultimately prove to be only a source of awkward pauses and embarrassed coughs. See also peacetrain, soultrain.
- command line
- The most efficient method available for accidentally deleting data.
- comment
- To gather people in a circle, for the purpose of patting each other on the back.
- computer
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Heroin for nerds; the worst thing in the world by virtue of being the
best thing in the world.
“Computers are better than sex! …I assume.”
- copyright
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The notion that you can protect from the future what you stole from
the past.
“The Devil’s Dictionary (2.0) is copyright © 2003 Greg Knauss.”