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• ate: n. 1. Condition, situation. "What's the state of your latest hack?
  It's winning away." "The system tried to read and write the disk simultaneously and got into a totally {wedged} state....
• bit n. [from the mainstream meaning and `Binary digIT'] 1.
  [techspeak] The unit of information; the amount of information obtained by asking a yes-or-no question for which the two outcomes are equally probable....
• hack [very common] 1. n. Originally, a quick job that produces what is needed, but not well.
  2. n. An incredibly good, and perhaps very time-consuming, piece of work that produces exactly what is needed....
• hack mode n. 1. What one is in when hacking, of course.
  2. More specifically, a Zen-like state of total focus on The Problem that may be achieved when one is hacking (this is why every good hacker is part mystic)....
• The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?
  ' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?...
• The `-P' convention: --------------------- Turning a word into a question by appending the syllable `P'
  from the LISP convention of appending the letter `P' to denote a predicate (a boolean-valued function)....
• CA, the Granola State - What ain't fruits is nutz.
• wedged adj. 1. To be stuck, incapable of proceeding without help.
  This is different from having crashed. If the system has crashed, it has become totally non-functioning....
• What did the state table say to bitstring? I don't recognize you.