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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 :
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.