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hift left (or right) logical [from any of various machines' instruction sets] 1.
vi. To move oneself to the left (right). To move out of the way....
him n. A small piece of data inserted in order to achieve a desired memory alignment or other addressing property.
For example, the PDP-11 Unix linker, in split I&D (instructions and ...
hitogram /shit'oh-gram/ n. A really nasty piece of email. Compare nastygram, flame.
hort card n.
hotgun debugging n. The software equivalent of Easter egging
he making of relatively undirected changes to the hope that a bug will be perturbed out of existence....
hovelware /shuh'v*l-weir`/ n. 1.
howstopper n. A hardware or (especially) software bug that makes an implementation effectively unusable
one that absolutely has to be fixed before development can go on. Opposite in co...
hriek n. See excl. Occasional CMU usage, also in common use among APL fans and mathematicians, especially category theorists.
Shub-Internet /shuhb' in't*r-net/ n. [MUD: from H.
P. Lovecraft's evil fictional deity Shub-Niggurath, the Black Goat with a Thousand Young] The harsh personification of the Interne...
idecar n. 1. Syn. slap on the side. Esp. used of add-ons for the late and unlamented IBM PCjr.
2. The IBM PC compatibility box that could be bolted onto the side of an Amiga. Designed...

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