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• Conceptual programmer: One who writes code for the 80686.
• code n. The stuff that software writers write, either in source form or after translation by a compiler or assembler.
  Often used in opposition to "data", which is the stuff that code operates on....
• bare metal n. 1. [common] New computer hardware, unadorned with such snares and delusions as an operating system, an bit bashing needed to create these basic tools for a new machine.
  Real bare-metal programming involves things like building boot proms and BIOS chips, implementing basic monitors used to test device drivers, and writing the assemblers that will be used to write the compiler back ends that will give the new machine a real development environment....
• SMOP /S-M-O-P/ n. [Simple (or Small) Matter of Programming] 1.
  A piece of code, not yet written, whose anticipated length is significantly greater than its complexity....
• SMOP: /S-M-O-P/ [Simple (or Small) Matter of Programming] n.
  1. A piece of code, not yet written, whose anticipated length is significantly greater than its complexity....
• lop: n. 1. A one-sided {fudge factor}, that is, an allowance for error but in only one of two directions.
  For example, if you need a piece of wire 10 feet long and have to guess when you cut it, you make very sure to cut it too long, by a large amount if necessary, rather than too short by even a little bit, because you can always cut off the slop but you can't paste it back on again....
• lop n. 1. A one-sided fudge factor, that is, an allowance for error but in only one of two directions.
  For example, if you need a piece of wire 10 feet long and have to guess when you cut it, you make very sure to cut it too long, by a large amount if necessary, rather than too short by even a little bit, because you can always cut off the slop but you can't paste it back on again....
• Good Thing n.,adj. [very common; often capitalized
  always pronounced as if capitalized.] 1. Self-evidently wonderful to anyone in a position to notice...
• Good Thing: n.,adj. Often capitalized; always pronounced as if capitalized.
  1. Self-evidently wonderful to anyone in a position to notice...