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(Verb, Software Engineering related)
To ignore something completely.
Root: In most unix systems there's a device called /dev/null. This device will ignore everything forwarded to it. Likewise when someone "devnull"s something they completely ignore it as it never existed.
Siavash: Sam, ya heard about new Microsoft Windows 8?
Sam: That doesn't even exist yet!
Siavash: Listen to me, it looks great! just try it once.
Sam: are you devnulling me?
Devnull by BrainX January 1, 2010
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Some random oldie hanging around Fubar looking at the nekkid chicks and generally making half-assed stupid posts.
Devnull posted a really lame comment in the Newbie Intro forum. He lose!
devnull by devnull December 10, 2004
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/dev/null is a character device file on UNIX computer operating systems that accepts all data written to it, without storing it. It can be opened by many processes simultaneously, and writing to it doesn't cause the file to grow. Formally, it's described as being an infinite data sink. In shell programming, unwanted output from a command can be redirected there. For example:

find / 2>/dev/null

This would display the full paths to all the accessible files on the computer, without displaying the "Permission denied" errors that are likely to occur.

When programs try to read from /dev/null, they get an end-of-file error.

The idea of a null device was imitated by Microsoft in MS-DOS. In DOS, 'NUL' is a reserved filename. When you open a file with that name, DOS opens its equivalent of /dev/null. This behavior was inherited by Windows. In Windows,
even versions of it that are based on the NT kernel, you cannot create a file called "NUL".

It is usually pronounced as "dev null", not "slash dev, slash null." Programmers sometimes refer to /dev/null as a place to send any unwanted information, even if, for example, the data is being transmitted as spoken words from a human's mouth.
"I didn't give a shit about what the Resident was saying, so I simply redirected everything he said to /dev/null."
/dev/null by Shaka Zulu September 2, 2004

Devaulle 

sweet, handsome guy. Very romantic. Athletic: football player. Stubborn at times. ALWAYS right about what he knows. Stands for his own. Stays true, honest, and loving to his spouse/girlfriend/wife. its origin is Duvall, which is french for valley.
she's dating a sweet guy named devaulle. =)
Devaulle by K.b Barber June 29, 2011
A email storing program designed with processing spam in mind.
Ex-Boy/Girlfirend: II stored your fucking email in /dev/null.
/dev/null by Nanoha Takamachi September 1, 2009
The striver is an interesting phenomenon that is seen across college campuses. In essence, the striver is an over-achiever who comes from a working or middle class family. He may be an immigrant. He may have been a slacker in HS who was "born again" into an academic wunderkind. Or he may just be an over-achiever who is keeping at it.

The striver is willing to sacrifice his social life at the expense of Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude. The striver is the guy who stays at the library long after you are gone. The striver is the guy who takes 30 credits/semester and considers anything below an A/4.0 failure. The striver doesn't work on campus, he is too busy finding ways to pad his resume instead of working retail or workstudy. The striver lets his grades pay his education by applying to ten scholarships a year.

The striver is a future Soros/Fullbright/Rhodes/Gates/Marshall/etc. fellow. The striver lives to study. For the striver, their fun comes from the rewards they expect to receive in return for their diligence. Be it Law School, B-School, academia, or politics. The striver seeks to find the American Dream through academic success.
Anthony was a striver. He transfered from a TTT to an IVY and graduated in 2 years. He studied his ass off and went to Penn Law. He got a Biglaw offer. But lost it all because of an unmoderated mesasgeboard.

Successful strivers:
- Barack Obama
- Harold Koh
Striver by URM Striver January 3, 2009
Word of the Day on August 15, 2026

SkyPesos 

Delta SkyMiles, also known as SkyPesos, is the frequent flyer program of Delta Airlines. It has a very poor value and hard to use.
- I'm trying to book an award flight to Paris, but I only have 70,000 SkyPesos
- Just forget about it, you don't have enough SkyPesos to fly anywhere.
SkyPesos by 404_name_not_found December 6, 2018
Word of the Day on August 14, 2026