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• MEMO: An interoffice communication too often written more for the benefit of the person who sends it than the person who receives it.
• include: vt. [USENET] 1. To duplicate a portion (or whole) of another's message (typically with attribution to the source) in a reply or followup, for clarifying the context of one's response.
  See the discussion of inclusion styles under "Hacker Writing Style"....
• Get a life!: imp. Hacker-standard way of suggesting that the person to whom it is directed has succumbed to terminal geekdom (see {computer geek}).
  Often heard on {USENET}, esp. as a way of suggesting that the target is taking some obscure issue of {theology} too seriously....
• 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....
• old fart: n. Tribal elder. A title self-assumed with remarkable frequency by (esp.
  ) USENETters who have been programming for more than about 25 yea...
• HLL: /H-L-L/ n. [High-Level Language (as opposed to assembler)] Found primarily in email and news rather than speech.
  Rarely, the variants `VHLL' and `MLL' are found....
• foreground: [UNIX] vt. To bring a task to the top of one's {stack} for immediate processing, and hackers often use it in this sense for non-computer tasks.
  If your presentation is due next week, I guess I'd better foreground writing up the design document....
• cyberspace: /si:'ber-spays/ n. 1. Notional `information-space' loaded with visual cues and navigable with brain-computer interfaces called `cyberspace decks'
  a characteristic prop of {cyberpunk} SF. At the time of this writing (mid-1991), serious efforts to construct {virtual reality} interfaces modeled explicitly on Gibsonian cyberspace are already under way, using more conventional devices such as glove sensors and binocular TV headsets....