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• Life is hard prov. [XEROX PARC] This phrase has two possible interpretatio
  (1) "While your suggestion may have some merit, I will behave as though I hadn't heard it....
• What's a spline?: [XEROX PARC] This phrase expands to
  You have just used a term that I've heard for a year and a half, and I feel I should know, but don't....
• What's a spline? [XEROX PARC] This phrase expands to
  You have just used a term that I've heard for a year and a half, and I feel I should know, but don't....
• marginal: adj. 1. Extremely small. "A marginal increase in {core} can decrease {GC} time drastically.
  In everyday terms, this means that it is a lot easier to clean off your desk if you have a spare place to put some of the junk while you sort through it....
• SAIL:: /sayl/, not /S-A-I-L/ n. 1. The Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab.
  An important site in the early development of LISP...
• error 33: [XEROX PARC] n. 1. Predicating one research effort upon the success of another.
  2. Allowing your own research effort to be placed on the critical path of some other project (be it a research effort or not)....
• GC: /G-C/ [from LISP terminology; `Garbage Collect'] 1.
  vt. To clean up and throw away useless things. "I think I'll GC the top of my desk today....
• flavor: n. 1. Variety, type, kind. "DDT commands come in two flavors.
  These lights come in two flavors, big red ones and small green ones....
• flat: adj. 1. Lacking any complex internal structure.
  That {bitty box} has only a flat filesystem, not a hierarchical one....