of what is known about good ways to design things. As in "Don't get too used to the facilities here. Once you leave SAIL it's stone knives and bearskins as far as the eye can see". Compare steam-powered.
stoppage /sto'pj/ n. Extreme lossage that renders something (usually something vital) completely unusable. "The recent system stoppage was caused by a fried transformer."
store n. [probably from techspeak 'main store'] In some varieties of Commonwealth hackish, the preferred synonym for core. Thus, bringing a program into store means not that one is returning shrink-wrapped software but that a program is being swapped in.
strided /str'dd/ adj. [scientific computing] Said of a sequence of memory reads and writes to addresses, each of which is separated from the last by a constant interval called the stride length. These can be a worst-case access pattern for the standard memory-caching schemes when the stride length is a multiple of the cache line size. Strided references are often generated by loops through an array, and (if your data is large enough that access-time is significant) it can be worthwhile to tune for better locality by inverting double loops or by partially unrolling the outer loop of a loop nest. This usage is borderline techspeak; the related term memory stride is definitely techspeak.
stroke n. Common name for the slant ('/', ASCII 0101111) character. See ASCII for other synonyms.
strudel n. Common (spoken) name for the at-sign ('@', ASCII 1000000) character. See ASCII for other synonyms.
stubroutine /stuhb'roo-teen/ n. [contraction of 'stub subroutine'] Tiny, often vacuous placeholder for a subroutine that is to be written or fleshed out later.
studly adj. Impressive; powerful. Said of code and designs which exhibit both complexity and a virtuoso flair. Has connotations similar to hairy but is more positive in tone. Often in the emphatic most studly or as noun-form studliness. "Smail 3.0's configuration parser is most studly."
studlycaps /stuhd'lee-kaps/ n. A hackish form of silliness similar to Bi-Capitalization for trademarks, but applied randomly and to arbitrary text rather than to trademarks. ThE oRigiN and SigNificaNce of thIs pRacTicE iS oBscuRe.
j/ n. Extreme lossage that renders something (usually something vital) completely unusable. "The recent system stoppage was caused by a fried transformer."
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