:Windoze: /win'dohz/ /n./ See {Microsloth Windows}.
:winged comments: /n./ Comments set on the same line as code, as opposed to {boxed comments}. In C, for example:
d = sqrt(x*x + y*y); /* distance from origin */
Generally these refer only to the action(s) taken on that line.
:winkey: /n./ (alt. `winkey face') See {emoticon}.
:winnage: /win'*j/ /n./ The situation when a lossage is corrected, or when something is winning.
:winner: 1. /n./ An unexpectedly good situation, program, programmer, or person. 2. `real winner': Often sarcastic, but also used as high praise (see also the note under {user}). "He's a real winner — never reports a bug till he can duplicate it and send in an example."
:winnitude: /win'*-t[y]ood/ /n./ The quality of winning (as opposed to {winnage}, which is the result of winning). "Guess what? They tweaked the microcode and now the LISP interpreter runs twice as fast as it used to." "That's really great! Boy, what winnitude!" "Yup. I'll probably get a half-hour's winnage on the next run of my program." Perhaps curiously, the obvious antonym `lossitude' is rare.
:wired: /n./ See {hardwired}.
:wirehead: /wi:r'hed/ /n./ [prob. from SF slang for an electrical-brain-stimulation addict] 1. A hardware hacker, especially one who concentrates on communications hardware. 2. An expert in local-area networks. A wirehead can be a network software wizard too, but will always have the ability to deal with network hardware, down to the smallest component. Wireheads are known for their ability to lash up an Ethernet terminator from spare resistors, for example.