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• etwork meltdown: n. A state of complete network overload
  he network equivalent of {thrash}ing. This may be induced by a {Chernobyl packet}....
• ayste /tayst/ n. Two bits; also as taste. Syn. crumb, quarter. See nybble.
• BIGAMY, n. A mistake in taste for which the wisdom of the future will adjudge a punishment called trigamy.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• fencepost error n. 1. [common] A problem with the discrete equivalent of a boundary condition, often exhibited in programs by iterative loops.
  From the following problem: "If you build a fence 100 feet long with posts 10 feet apart, how many posts do you need?...
• He had found a Nutri-Matic machine which had provided him with a plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.
  The way it functioned was very interesting. When the DRINK button was pressed it made an instant but highly detailed examination of the subject's taste buds, a spectroscopic analysis of the subject's metabolism and then sent tiny experimental signals down the neural pathways to the taste centers of the subject's brain to see what was likely to go down well....
• milliLampson /mil'*-lamp`sn/ n. A unit of talking speed, abbreviated mL.
  Most people run about 200 milliLampsons. The eponymous Butler Lampson (a CS theorist and systems implementor highly regarded among hackers) goes at 1000....
• aste [primarily MIT] n. 1. The quality in a program that tends to be inversely proportional to the number of features, hacks, and kluges programmed into it.
  Also `tasty', `tasteful', `tastefulness'. "This feature comes in N tasty flavors....
• aste: [primarily MIT] n. 1. The quality in a program that tends to be inversely proportional to the number of features, hacks, and kluges programmed into it.
  Also `tasty', `tasteful', `tastefulness'. "This feature comes in N tasty flavors....
• angle brackets n. Either of the characters < (ASCII 0111100) and &g
  (ASCII 0111110) (ASCII less-than or greater-than signs)....