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ick-list features n. [Acorn Computers] Features in software or hardware that customers insist on but never use (calculators in desktop TSRs and that sort of thing).
The American equivale...
ickle a bug vt. To cause a normally hidden bug to manifest itself through some known series of inputs or operations.
You can tickle the bug in the Paradise VGA card's highlight handling by...
iger team n. [U.S. military jargon] 1. Originally, a team (of sneakers) whose purpose is to penetrate security, and thus test security measures.
These people are paid professionals who do ...
ime bomb n. A subspecies of logic bomb that is triggered by reaching some preset time, either once or periodically.
There are numerous legends about time bombs set up by programmers i...
ime sink n. [poss. by analogy with `heat sink' or `current sink'] A project that consumes unbounded amounts of time.
ime T /ti:m T/ n. 1. An unspecified but usually well-understood time, often used in conjunction with a later time T+1.
We'll meet on campus at time T or at Louie's at time T+1" means, i...
imes-or-divided-by quant.
TINC // [Usenet] Abbreviation: "There Is No Cabal".
See backbone cabal and NANA, but note that this abbreviation did not enter use until long after the dispersal of the backbone cabal....
Tinkerbell program n.
TINLC // Abbreviation: "There Is No Lumber Cartel".
See Lumber Cartel. TINLC is a takeoff on TINC....

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