Cruft is to hackers as gaggle is to geese; that is, at UW one properly says “a cruft of hackers”. And for crufty: crufty: /kruhf tee/, adj. [very common; origin unknown; poss. from ‘crusty’ or …

Jul 27, 2016 · 3 Cruft The word you are looking for is cruft. From ESR’s Jargon File: n. Excess; superfluous junk; used esp. of redundant or superseded code. From Oxford Dictionaries …

Sep 10, 2019 · Removing cruft when doing so has been justified should not demand rew. As such, your title question is a paradox, unless you mean not to justify whether a piece was …

Jun 9, 2017 · Cruft is a collective term for the elements of a program, system or product that are either useless, poorly designed or both. In computing, cruft describes areas of redundant, …

Nov 23, 2011 · Blue sky thinking is business jargon for a sort of brainstorming or analysis that is uninhibited by the cruft and complexity of tedious and confusing reality. It is supposed to be …

The most recent citation for communicationally adv. as regards communication; in respect of communications …in my copy of the OED is in the context of communicationally challenged: …

Jul 23, 2017 · All the cruft about "thinking" and "crisp" is irrelevant. Properly simplified, your question is, should you write "peas is guacamole" or "peas are guacamole"? To my ear, the …

Aug 7, 2019 · I think it's still the correct answer. "Maiden" means "sexually inexperienced woman", after all, hence the old trifecta of "Maiden, Mother, Crone". This answer does have a lot of …

My mother tongue, Korean, and its neighbor Japanese have postpositions for expressing honoring the opposite in each sentence when we say to seniors or strangers if these are younger than …

Oct 22, 2014 · All of these do indicate excess, but not the sense of entitlement to the excess that seems central to OP's question. In fact, they imply that the excess has no value at all, much …