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Definitions by bugpower

Airplane domino 

When a passenger leans his sit back and everyone behind him are forced to do the same.
Be careful with your laptop, an airplane domino is approaching.
Airplane domino by bugpower February 25, 2015

crapshot 

A screenshot of a bug, usually done by QA for the software developers.
- My screen is half grey!
- Could you please take the crapshot, grandma?
- sends whatsapp message
- Oh, why have you pulled the task bar all the way up?
crapshot by bugpower March 12, 2014

fuck-aid pattern 

In Object Oriented Programming, fuck-aid pattern is a leaky and poorly written wrapper of a non-object oriented interface.

Derived from mispronunciation of "facade pattern" by non-native English speakers.
MFC is a fuck-aid pattern wrapper for the Windows API
fuck-aid pattern by bugpower March 22, 2012

paperless work 

Bureaucratic work of the new era that does not involve paper, as opposed to paperwork, popular before invention of the paperless office.

First used in Futurama in the episode about the movie Minority Report.
From Futurama:
“Ain’t you headin’ home, Phil?”

In a minute. I just wanna finish this paperless work.” – Fry

I've outsourced the data entry to oDesk, because it is such a tedious paperless work.
paperless work by bugpower December 15, 2011