Difficulty Glossary

Browse 3 difficulty terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.

3 Difficulty Terms

Boss Fight: A humorous way to describe an unusually difficult bug, migration, or technical problem that feels like the main challenge of the current project phase. In...
Nightmare Mode: A situation where difficulty, risk, or pain has shifted from ordinary hard into the truly nasty range. In engineering slang, nightmare mode usually means bad...
Rocket Surgery: A joking mixed phrase combining 'rocket science' and 'brain surgery' to mock claims that something is impossibly hard. In engineering slang, it is often used...