Pistos's definitions

thumbstream

The series of web pages which have been positively rated by someone on a social bookmarking website.

On stumbleupon.com, users show that they like or dislike sites recommended to them by the StumbleUpon service by giving a thumb up or thumb down. Hence, "thumbstream".

There is an extremely high percentage of top quality links coming out of Pistos' thumbstream.

by Pistos August 1, 2007

sardine spacing

(In computer programming) A style of formatting source code characterized by an extreme lack of spaces and newlines.

Michael and Chris favour sardine spacing for their code.

by Pistos March 30, 2009

overcomplexify

To make unnecessarily complicated, or to make complex something that can or should be simple.

Michael thought the project would not take a lot of design or implementation effort, so he accused Dave of overcomplexifying matters.

by Pistos April 1, 2009