Neologism: Vulnerability
vulnerability - noun - A group of one or more blockchains.
(source: Sarah Jamie Lewis)
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Neologism: GSCA
GSCA - acronym, verb - Using grep, sed, cut, and awk on a Linux or UNIX box to chop up, mangle, or otherwise process data on the command line prior to doing anything serious with it. This is not to preclude the use of additional tools (such as sort).
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Neologism: Nopefully
nopefully - adverb - Something in a state or manner in which one fervently hopes something does not happen.
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Neologism: Going rogue
Going rogue - noun phrase - Ignoring the directions Google Maps (or whatever map navigation application you have on your phone) gives you in favor of using the knowledge inside your head and local area expertise. The thing about map navigation applications is that so many people use them, the moment you deviate from the main course you have almost entirely empty streets, with a significant reduction in travel time.
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Neologism: Platypus truther
Platypus truther - noun - Someone who doggedly, ruthlessly, and almost to the exclusion of anything else (including good sense) espouses, defends, and picks fights over a position, idea, or hypothesis that is completely and totally around the bend. Even taking into account the context of this person's other activities (social media history, books written, and so forth) it makes absolutely no sense why they would claim to believe such a thing, let alone fight with people over it. There is absolutely no way of telling if they're communicating in good faith or not. It could be trolling, it might be absurdist …
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Neologism: Quantum budget superposition
quantum budget superposition - noun - A bank account's state of existence during the time in which you're waiting for your landlord to cash the rent cheque so you don't actually know how much money you have at a given time t. Spend too much and your rent cheque bounces. Spend too little and you put off important bills for too long.
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Neologism: Gitmnesia
gitmnesia - noun - That feeling when you receive an update email about some ticket on Github from a project that you haven't looked at in so long that you don't recognize its name. Generally a sign that you follow too many projects on Github.
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Neologism: Icon blindness
icon blindness - noun phrase - The state of mind in which you search your desktop for minutes on end for one particular application's icon but don't find it. You give up and open it from the application menu, whereupon you have no trouble remembering which category it's in or what the name (in text) of the application is.
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Neologism: Kinetic pattern baldness
kinetic pattern baldness - noun - The characteristic hourglass-shaped pattern of hair loss in both men and women that results from tearing one's hair out in frustration on a regular basis.
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Neologism: Debuggery
debuggery - noun - The unshakable feeling that your code is completely fucked when you spend multiple all nighters in a row tracking down a single annoying bug that winds up not being in your core code, nor any modules you've written, nor any of the libraries you're using, but in a different part of the system entirely. In other words, your code is so poorly architected that you can't tell when problems aren't actually in your code.
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