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DPer /dee-pee-er/ N. Data Processor. Hackers Are Absolutely Amazed That Suits Use This Term Self-referentially.
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DPer /dee-pee-er/ n.
Data Processor. Hackers are
absolutely amazed that suits use this term self-referentially.
Computers process data, not people! See DP.
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DPer: /dee-pee-er/ n. Data Processor. Hackers are absolutely amazed that {suit}s use this term self-referentially.
*Computers* process data, not people! See {DP}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
DP: /D-P/ n. 1. Data Processing. Listed here because, according to hackers, use of the term marks one immediately as a {suit}.
See {DPer}. 2. Common abbrev for {Dissociated Press}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
DP /D-P/ n. 1. Data Processing. Listed here because, according to hackers, use of the term marks one immediately as a suit.
See DPer. 2. Common abbrev fo...
ampoline: n. An incredibly {hairy} technique, found in some {HLL} and program-overlay implementations (e.
g., on the Macintosh), that involves on-the-fly generation of small executable (and, likely as not, self-modifying) code objects to do indirection between code sections....
awk: 1. n. [UNIX techspeak] An interpreted language for massaging text data developed by Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan (the name derives from their initials).
It is characterized by C-like syntax, a declaration-free approach to variable typing and declarations, associative arrays, and field-oriented text processing....
ampoline n. An incredibly hairy technique, found in some HLL and program-overlay implementations (e.
g., on the Macintosh), that involves on-the-fly generation of small executable (and, likely as not, self-modifying) code objects to do indirection between code sections....
awk /awk/ 1. n. [Unix techspeak] An interpreted language for massaging text data developed by Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan (the name derives from their initials).
It is characterized by C-like syntax, a declaration-free approach to variable typing and declarations, associative arrays, and field-oriented text processing....
bit bang: n. Transmission of data on a serial line, when accomplished by rapidly tweaking a single output bit, in software, at the appropriate times.
The technique is a simple loop with eight OUT and SHIFT instruction pairs for each byte....
bit bang n. Transmission of data on a serial line, when accomplished by rapidly tweaking a single output bit, in software, at the appropriate times.
The technique is a simple loop with eight OUT and SHIFT instruction pairs for each byte....