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Default, N.: [Possibly From Black English "De Fault Wid Dis System Is You, Mon.
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default, n.:
[Possibly from Black English "De fault wid dis system is you,
mon."] The vain attempt to avoid errors by inactivity. "Nothing will
come of nothing: speak again." -- King Lear.
-- Stan Kelly-Bootle, "The Devil's DP Dictionary"
Related:
default, n.: [Possibly from Black English De fault wid dis system is you, mon.
] The vain attempt to avoid errors by inactivity. Nothing will come of nothing...
cursor address, n: Hello, cursor! -- Stan Kelly-Bootle, The Devil's DP Dictionary
cursor address, n: "Hello, cursor!" -- Stan Kelly-Bootle, "The Devil's DP Dictionary
The more data I punch in this card, the lighter it becomes, and the lower the mailing cost.
-- Stan Kelly-Bootle, The Devil's DP Dictionary...
The more data I punch in this card, the lighter it becomes, and the lower the mailing cost.
-- Stan Kelly-Bootle, "The Devil's DP Dictionary...
flowchart, n. & v.: [From flow to ripple down in rich profusion, as hair + chart a cryptic hidden-treasure map designed to mislead the uninitiated.
] 1. n. The solution, if any, to a class of Mascheroni construction problems in which given algorithms require geometrical representation using only the 35 basic ideograms of the ANSI template....
flowchart, n. & v.: [From flow "to ripple down in rich profusion, as hair" + chart "a cryptic hidden-treasure map designed to mislead the uninitiated.
] 1. n. The solution, if any, to a class of Mascheroni construction problems in which given algorithms require geometrical representation using only the 35 basic ideograms of the ANSI template....
curtation n. The enforced compression of a string in the fixed-length field environment.
The problem of fitting extremely variable-length strings such as names, addresses, and item descriptions into fixed-length records is no trivial matter....
The more data I punch in this card, the lighter it becomes, and the lower the mailing cost.
-- S. Kelly-Bootle, "The Devil's DP Dictionary...