ill-behaved adj.
1. [numerical analysis] Said of an algorithm or computational
method that tends to blow up because of accumulated roundoff
error or poor convergence properties. 2. Software that bypasses
the defined OS interfaces to do things
(like screen, keyboard, and disk I/O) itself, often in a way that
depends on the hardware of the machine it is running on or which
is nonportable or incompatible with other pieces of software. In
the IBM PC/MS-DOS world, there is a folk theorem (nearly true) to
the effect that (owing to gross inadequacies and performance
penalties in the OS interface) all interesting applications are
ill-behaved. See also bare
metal. Oppose well-behaved, compare PC-ism. See mess-dos.
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IMHO // abbrev.
[from SF fandom via Usenet; abbreviation for `In My Humble
Opinion'] "IMHO, mixed-case C names should be avoided, as
mistyping something in the wrong case can cause hard-to-detect
errors -- and they look too Pascalish anyhow." Also seen in
variant forms such as IMNSHO (In My Not-So-Humble Opinion) and
IMAO (In My Arrogant Opinion).
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Imminent Death Of The Net Predicted! prov.
[Usenet] Since Usenet first got
off the ground in 1980-81, it has grown exponentially,
approximately doubling in size every year. On the other hand,
most people feel the signal-to-noise ratio of
Usenet has dropped steadily. These trends led, as far back as
mid-1983, to predictions of the imminent collapse (or death) of
the net. Ten years and numerous doublings later, enough of these
gloomy prognostications have been confounded that the phrase
"Imminent Death Of The Net Predicted!" has become a running joke,
hauled out any time someone grumbles about the S/N ratio or the huge and steadily
increasing volume, or the possible loss of a key node or link, or
the potential for lawsuits when ignoramuses post copyrighted
material, etc., etc., etc.
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in the extreme adj.
A preferred superlative suffix for many hackish terms. See,
for example, `obscure in the extreme' under obscure, and compare highly.