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Ube Time N. Time Spent At A Terminal Or Console.
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tube time n.
Time spent at a terminal or console. More
inclusive than hacking time; commonly used in discussions of what
parts of one's environment one uses most heavily. "I find I'm
spending too much of my tube time reading mail since I started this
revision."
Related:
ube time: n. Time spent at a terminal or console. More inclusive than hacking time
commonly used in discussions of what parts of one's environment one uses most heavily....
If you want X, you know where to find it.: There is a legend that Dennis Ritchie
inventor of {C}, once responded to demands for features resembling those of what at the time was a much more popular language by observing "If you want PL/I, you know where to find it....
If you want X, you know where to find it. There is a legend that Dennis Ritchie
inventor of C, once responded to demands for features resembling those of what at the time was a much more popular language by observing "If you want PL/I, you know where to find it....
I started to correct my mistakes, but realized what I was doing in time.
EMACS /ee'maks/ n. [from Editing MACroS] The ne plus ultra of hacker editors, a programmable text editor with an entire LISP system inside it.
It was originally written by Richard Stallman in TECO under ITS at the MIT AI lab...
erminal junkie: [UK] n. A {wannabee} or early {larval stage} hacker who spends most of his or her time wandering the directory tree and writing {noddy} programs just to get a fix of computer time.
Variants include `terminal jockey', `console junkie', and {console jockey}....
Homer: Larry, there's only one sure way to make him realize how much he loves you.
And that is a phony kidnapping. Larry: Yeah, right....
No one on his deathbed ever said, I wish I had spent more time on my business.
-- Paul E. Tsongas, quoting a letter from a friend....
ITS /I-T-S/ n. 1. Incompatible Time-sharing System, an influential though highly idiosyncratic operating system written for PDP-6s and PDP-10s at MIT and long used at the MIT AI Lab.
Much AI-hacker jargon derives from ITS folklore, and to have been `an ITS hacker' qualifies one instantly as an old-timer of the most venerable sort....