Mystery Glossary

Browse 2 mystery terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.

2 Mystery Terms

Code Sphinx: A piece of code that is silent, inscrutable, and full of riddles for anyone trying to understand it. In engineering slang, code sphinx implies the system may...
It Works Why: A joking inversion of 'it works, why?' used when something is functioning but nobody really understands the reason. In engineering slang, this is one of the...