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briandmyers  ·  3676 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Jargon File - a common heritage of the hacker culture

For those who can't stomach ESR, I've discovered a pre-ESR version of the Jargon File :

http://www.dourish.com/goodies/jargon.html





user-inactivated  ·  3676 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It says "glitch" is a hacker jargon word! That's the word I use when describing bugs in software to less tech savvy people sometimes, instead of saying "there's a bug", I'll say "there's a glitch" because I figure they probably know what glitch means vs. bug. But they're both hacker slang, according to that file! Fascinating.