Finger Trouble N. Mistyping, Typos, Or Generalized Keyboard Incompetence (this Is Surprisingly Common Among Hackers, Given The Amount Of Time They Spend At Keyboards).

Finger Trouble N. Mistyping, Typos, Or Generalized Keyboard Incompetence (this Is Surprisingly Common Among Hackers, Given The Amount Of Time They Spend At Keyboards).

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finger trouble n.

Mistyping, typos, or generalized keyboard
incompetence (this is surprisingly common among hackers, given the
amount of time they spend at keyboards). "I keep putting colons at
the end of statements instead of semicolons", "Finger trouble
again, eh?".

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Sex takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.
-- Murphy's laws on sex...
Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.
-- John Barrymore...
The thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble is sex.
Sex : The thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.
BARRYMORE...
finger-pointing syndrome: n. All-too-frequent result of bugs, esp.
in new or experimental configurations. The hardware vendor points a finger at the software....
The trouble with trying to keep up with the Joneses is that they are putting their utmost effort into keeping up with you.
bit-paired keyboard n.,obs. (alt. `bit-shift keyboard') A non-standard keyboard layout that seems to have originated with the Teletype ASR-33 and remained common for several years on early computer equipment.
The ASR-33 was a mechanical device (see EOU), so the only way to generate the character codes from keystrokes was by some physical linkage....
I pulled the finger...and she sank...
AI /A-I/ n. Abbreviation for `Artificial Intelligence', so common that the full form is almost never written or spoken among hackers.