:deserves to lose: /adj./ Said of someone who willfully does
the {Wrong Thing}; humorously, if one uses a feature known to be
{marginal}. What is meant is that one deserves the consequences
of one's {losing} actions. "Boy, anyone who tries to use
{mess-dos} deserves to {lose}!" ({{ITS}} fans used to say
the same thing of {{Unix}}; many still do.) See also {screw},
{chomp}, {bagbiter}.

:desk check: /n.,v./ To {grovel} over hardcopy of source
code, mentally simulating the control flow; a method of catching
bugs. No longer common practice in this age of on-screen editing,
fast compiles, and sophisticated debuggers -- though some maintain
stoutly that it ought to be. Compare {eyeball search},
{vdiff}, {vgrep}.

:despew: /d*-spyoo'/ /v./ [Usenet] To automatically generate
a large amount of garbage to the net, esp. from an automated
posting program gone wild. See {ARMM}.

:Devil Book: /n./ See {daemon book}, the term preferred by
its authors.

:dickless workstation: /n./ Extremely pejorative hackerism for
`diskless workstation', a class of botches including the Sun 3/50
and other machines designed exclusively to network with an
expensive central disk server. These combine all the disadvantages
of time-sharing with all the disadvantages of distributed personal
computers; typically, they cannot even {boot} themselves without
help (in the form of some kind of {breath-of-life packet}) from