LOC

Lines Of Code.
A particularly clueless method of "measuring" the output of a programmer, motivated by the fact that "we're paying her to write lines of code!"

This ignores such trivial objective matters as the difficulty or quality of the code, as well as the obvious subjective matters (I can write 5 good lines one day and 1000 the next).

When a suit starts talking LOC (and kLOC), it's time to break out the code generators: M4, YACC, LEX, and most importantly custom-built programs that write programs. All of these enable the programmer to leverage effort to create LOC (to use a turn of phrase said suits might understand).

An Acronym meaning 'Library of Congress'. Popularized by /., it is used as a unit of electronic storage capacity, as in "Man, that rackmounted server must have 5 LOCs of storage!".

Library of Congress. In terms of electronic storage capacity:

1 LOC = ~10 terabytes

Loc is a common modern term for dreadlocks; in modern parlance both dreads and locs might be used to refer to dreadlocks, but the tone is rather different. A lot of people avoid 'dreads' and 'dreadlocks' because the word dread is, to belabor the obvious subtext, dreadful. In fashion the term loc is becoming increasingly more common, with butterfly locs, microlocs, sisterlocks, and just plain traditional locs proliferating.

While usage is still flexible, locs tend to refer specifically to African and especially African-American hair; while anyone might have dreadlocks, locs are fairly limited to styles designed for and primarily worn by African-Americans, especially women. Contrarywise, not all locs are dreadlocks, as any style that looks a bit like traditional locs may use the term.