Definitions by ah95425

code gremlin 

Strange behavior in a buggy computer program, which you have yet to find an explanation for

I'm writing a linked list, but when I try to print it with some test data the nodes are all in the wrong order and I can't figure out why. Fucking code gremlins...

code gremlin by ah95425 October 26, 2019

Gary 

A critical bug in a computer program, resulting from a minor and understandable but still really bad mistake, that can take hours to figure out and fix. Named for Gary Gillespie, a Computer Science professor at UC San Diego, since he is prone to making small mistakes in his lectures that can drastically change their meaning.

Our professor told us to use sizeof(char)' instead of the number eight to make our code more readable, and it broke my program. Well it turns out sizeof returns the size in bytes, not bits, and all my code broke. What a Gary...

Gary by ah95425 October 20, 2019