- RANDOM
- adj.1. Unpredictable (closest to mathematical definition);
weird. "The system's been behaving pretty randomly."
2. Assorted;
undistinguished. "Who was at the conference?" "Just a bunch of
random business types."
3. Frivolous; unproductive; undirected
(pejorative). "He's just a random loser."
4. Incoherent or
inelegant; not well organized. "The program has a random set of
misfeatures." "That's a random name for that function." "Well,
all the names were chosen pretty randomly."
5.Gratuitously wrong,
i.e., poorly done and for no good apparent reason. For example, a
program that handles file name defaulting in a particularly useless
way, or a routine that could easily have been coded using only
three ac's, but randomly uses seven for assorted non-overlapping
purposes, so that no one else can invoke it without first saving
four extra ac's.
6. In no particular order, though deterministic.
"The I/O channels are in a pool, and when a file is opened one is
chosen randomly." n.
7. A random hacker; used particularly of high
school students who soak up computer time and generally get in the
way.
8.(occasional MIT usage) One who lives at Random Hall.
J. RANDOM is often prefixed to a noun to make a "name" out of it
(by comparison to common names such as "J. Fred Muggs"). The most
common uses are "J. Random Loser" and "J. Random Nurd" ("Should
J. Random Loser be allowed to gun down other people?"), but it
can be used just as an elaborate version of RANDOM in any sense.
[See also the note at the end of the entry for HACK.]
- RANDOMNESS
- n. An unexplainable misfeature; gratuitous inelegance.
Also, a hack or crock which depends on a complex combination
of coincidences (or rather, the combination upon which the
crock depends). "This hack can output characters 40-57 by
putting the character in the accumulator field of an XCT and
then extracting 6 bits -- the low two bits of the XCT opcode
are the right thing." "What randomness!"
- RAPE
- v. To (metaphorically) screw someone or something, violently.
Usage: often used in describing file-system damage. "So-and-so was
running a program that did absolute disk I/O and ended up raping
the master directory."
- RAVE
- (WPI) v.
1. To persist in discussing a specific subject.
2. To
speak authoritatively on a subject about which one knows very
little.
3. To complain to a person who is not in a position to
correct the difficulty.
4.To purposely annoy another person verbally.
5. To evangelize. See FLAME. Also used to describe
a less negative form of blather, such as friendly bullshitting.
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