meaning of brain damaged
1. brain-damaged 1. [generalisation of "Honeywell Brain Damage" HBD, a theoretical disease invented to explain certain utter cretinisms in Honeywell Multics] Obviously wrong; cretinous; demented. There is an implication that the person responsible must have suffered brain damage, because he should have known better. Calling something brain-damaged is really bad; it also implies it is unusable, and that its failure to work is due to poor design rather than some accident. "Only six monocase characters per file name? Now *thats* brain-damaged!" 2. [especially in the Mac world] May refer to free demonstration software that has been deliberately crippled in some way so as not to compete with the commercial product it is intended to sell. Synonym crippleware. [Jargon File] brain-dead Brain-damaged in the extreme. It tends to imply terminal design failure rather than malfunction or simple stupidity. brain dump The act of telling someone everything one knows about a particular topic. Typically used when someone is going to let a new party maintain a piece of code. Conceptually analogous to an operating system core dump in that it saves a lot of useful state before an exit. "Youll have to give me a brain dump on FOOBAR before you start your new job at HackerCorp. " At Sun, this is also known as "TOI" transfer of information. [Jargon File] brain fart
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