Naming
96 items from gruhn/awesome-naming ★1,456
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Choreographic programming en.wikipedia.org
A programming paradigm where programs are compositions of interactions among multiple concurrent participants.
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C++ en.wikipedia.org
Although C was certainly a bad name, C++ was quite clever. The iconic increment operator ++ indicates that C++ is the successor.
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Busy Beaver en.wikipedia.org
Turing machines that produce numbers so insanely large, no other algorithm can keep up with them.
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Breadcrumb en.wikipedia.org
Navigational aid allowing users to keep track of their location within programs, documents, or websites. The term is a reference to the fairy tale Hansel and Gretel.
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Bottleneck en.wikipedia.org
A central part of a network/application that significantly limits throughput/performance and should ideally be eliminated.
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Backdoor en.wikipedia.org
A method of bypassing normal authentication in a computer system.
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Attention en.wikipedia.org
A mechanism allowing models to selectively focus on the most relevant parts of their input, just as humans direct their attention to what matters most.
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Adapter en.wikipedia.org
Allows classes with incompatible interfaces to work together by wrapping its own interface around that of an already existing class.
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Garbage Collector en.m.wikipedia.org
Part of a program that attempts to find and reclaim garbage pieces of memory not used anymore.
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Brute force en.m.wikipedia.org
Violence is actually almost always a solution, but not a very clever one.
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Brick en.m.wikipedia.org
When your device is so corrupted, it virtually turns into a brick.
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Cyber hygiene digitalguardian.com
Steps and practices that users should take to maintain system health and improve online security.
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Cookie licking devblogs.microsoft.com
E.g., claiming a GitHub issue, then not working on it.
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Backtracking de.wikipedia.org
When you explore a search space and you reach a dead end, you follow your tracks back to the last crossroad and try the other way.
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Hydra computer-dictionary-online.org
A bug that, when an attempt to fix it is made, introduces multiple new bugs. It's a bug that cannot be fixed.
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trampoline clojuredocs.org
Continuously runs functions that themselves return functions. Like a child on a trampoline that returns and bounces back up.
