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• lithium lick: n. [NeXT] n. Steve Jobs. Employees who have gotten too much attention from their esteemed founder are said to have `lithium lick' when they begin to show signs of Jobsian fervor and repeat the most recent catch phrases in normal conversation --- for example
  It just works, right out of the box!" -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• front end: n. 1. An intermediary computer that does set-up and filtering for another (usually more powerful but less friendly) machine (a `back end').
  2. What you're talking to when you have a conversation with someone who is making replies without paying attention....
• off-by-one error: n. Exceedingly common error induced in many ways, such as by starting at 0 when you should have started at 1 or vice-versa, or by writing `&l
  N' instead of `<= N' or vice-versa. Also applied to giving something to the person next to the one who should have gotten it....
• wo-to-the-N: quant. An amount much larger than {N} but smaller than {infinity}.
  I have 2-to-the-N things to do before I can go out for lunch" means you probably won't show up....
• line 666: [from Christian eschatological myth] n. The notional line of source at which a program fails for obscure reaso
  implying either that *somebody* is out to get it (when you are the programmer), or that it richly deserves to be so gotten (when you are not)....
• deep space: n. 1. Describes the notional location of any program that has gone {off the trolley}.
  Esp. used of programs that just sit there silently grinding long after either failure or some output is expected....
• memory farts: n. The flatulent sounds that some DOS box BIOSes (most notably AMI's) make when checking memory on bootup.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• pencil and paper: n. An archaic information storage and transmission device that works by depositing smears of graphite on bleached wood pulp.
  More recent developments in paper-based technology include improved `write-once' update devices which use tiny rolling heads similar to mouse balls to deposit colored pigment....
• GIGO: /gi:'goh/ [acronym] 1. `Garbage In, Garbage Out' --- usually said in response to {luser}s who complain that a program didn't "do the right thing" when given imperfect input or otherwise mistreated in some way.
  Also commonly used to describe failures in human decision making due to faulty, incomplete, or imprecise data....