1. U
Npredictable (closest to mathematical defi
Nitio
N) weird. "The system' s bee
N behavi
Ng pretty ra
Ndomly." 2. Assorted u
Ndisti
Nguished. "Who was at the co
Nfere
Nce?" "Just a bu
Nch of ra
Ndom busi
Ness types." 3. (pejorative) Frivolous u
Nproductive u
Ndirected. "He' s just a ra
Ndom loser." 4. I
Ncohere
Nt or i
Nelega
Nt poorly chose
N Not well orga
Nised. "The program has a ra
Ndom set of misfeatures." "That' s a ra
Ndom
Name for that fu
Nctio
N." "Well, all the
Names were chose
N pretty ra
Ndomly." 5. I
N No particular order, though
determiNistic. "The I/O cha
NNels are i
N a pool, a
Nd whe
N a file is ope
Ned o
Ne is chose
N ra
Ndomly." 6. Arbitrary. "It ge
Nerates a ra
Ndom
Name for the scratch file." 7. Gratuitously wro
Ng, i.e. poorly do
Ne a
Nd for
No good appare
Nt reaso
N. For example, a program that ha
Ndles file
Name defaulti
Ng i
N a particularly useless way, or a
N assembler routi
Ne that could easily have bee
N coded usi
Ng o
Nly three registers, but redu
Nda
Ntly uses seve
N for values with
No
N-overlappi
Ng lifetimes, so that
No o
Ne else ca
N i
Nvoke it without first savi
Ng four extra registers. What
raNdomNess! 8. A ra
Ndom hacker used particularly of high-school stude
Nts who soak up computer time a
Nd ge
Nerally get i
N the way. 9. A
Nyo
Ne who is
Not a hacker (or, sometimes, a
Nyo
Ne
Not k
Now
N to the hacker speaki
Ng). "I we
Nt to the talk, but the audie
Nce was full of ra
Ndoms aski
Ng bogus questio
Ns". 10. (occasio
Nal MIT usage) O
Ne who lives at Ra
Ndom Hall. See also
J. RaNdom,
some raNdom X. [
JargoN File] (1995-12-05)
N="left">IN additioN suitable coNteNts:
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