Software developed by non-professionals who insist it is great yet it takes so much tinkering to just get it running, you wish you never downloaded it in the first place.
If I have to edit one more "conf" file to get this piece of junk hobbyware to just start up, I will scream!
Hoboware is a general programming term for bad pieces of source code. The defining characteristic of hoboware, as opposed to bad code in general, is that it is an implementation of a problem for which an efficient algorithm is known. Because the correct implementations are difficult to track down, the code is needlessly created over and over, either by many different parties or by the same author, usually at the cost of efficiency and readability. The prefix "hobo" is probably an analogy between the code's elusiveness and the itinerant, carefree nature of the stereotypical American hobo or gypsy1.
That source code that should be used over and over in different programs, but ends up getting rewritten at great expense of time, because (paradoxically) computer hackers are very lazy.
void sort_array(int * array, int length)
(... passage of time ...)
void sort_array(int * array, int length)
(... passage of time ...)
void sort_array(int * array, int length)
Short-hand for the word floccinaucinihilipilification, meaning the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language).
Precedes or follows either a gratuitously disrespectful or honest remark, originated in New York City. Used in similar fashion to "no offense" or "to be honest," interchangeably.
Ya mans is wild buns, respectfully. Respectfully he's washed.
After school, The Modells on Jamaica Ave was active. Respectfully.