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• era n. Syn. epoch. Webster's Unabridged makes these words almost synonymou
  but `era' more often connotes a span of time rather than a point in time, whereas the reverse is true for epoch....
• ince time T equals minus infinity: adv. A long time ago
  for as long as anyone can remember; at the time that some particular frob was first designed....
• epoch: [UNIX: prob. from astronomical timekeeping] n.
  The time and date corresponding to 0 in an operating system's clock and timestamp values....
• PPN: /P-P-N/, /pip'n/ [from `Project-Programmer Number'] n.
  A user-ID under {{TOPS-10}} and its various mutant progeny at SAIL, BBN, CompuServe, and elsewhere....
• ince time T equals minus infinity adv. A long time ago
  for as long as anyone can remember; at the time that some particular frob was first designed....
• cough and die: v. Syn. {barf}. Connotes that the program is throwing its hands up by design rather than because of a bug or oversight.
  The parser saw a control-A in its input where it was looking for a printable, so it coughed and died....
• crewage: /skroo'*j/ n. Like {lossage} but connotes that the failure is due to a designed-in misfeature rather than a simple inadequacy or a mere bug.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• weak: vt. 1. To change slightly, usually in reference to a value.
  Also used synonymously with {twiddle}. If a program is almost correct, rather than figure out the precise problem you might just keep tweaking it until it works....
• pseudoprime: n. A backgammon prime (six consecutive occupied points) with one point missing.
  This term is an esoteric pun derived from a mathematical method that, rather than determining precisely whether a number is prime (has no divisors), uses a statistical technique to decide whether the number is `probably' prime....