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Flyspeck 3: N. Standard Name For Any Font That Is So Tiny As To Be Unreadable (by Analogy With Names Like `Helvetica 10' For 10-point Helvetica).
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:Flyspeck 3: n. Standard name for any font that is so tiny as to be
unreadable (by analogy with names like `Helvetica 10' for
10-point Helvetica). Legal boilerplate is usually printed in
Flyspeck 3.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
Flyspeck 3 n. Standard name for any font that is so tiny as to be unreadable (by analogy with names like `Helvetica 10' for 10-point Helvetica).
Legal boilerplate is usually printed in Flyspeck 3....
elvish: n. 1. The Tengwar of Feanor, a table of letterforms resembling the beautiful Celtic half-uncial hand of the "Book of Kells".
Invented and described by J. R. R. Tolkien in "The Lord of The Rings" as an orthography for his fictional `elvish' languages, this system (which is both visually and phonetically {elegant}) has long fascinated hackers (who tend to be intrigued by artificial languages in general)....
gensym: /jen'sim/ [from MacLISP for `generated symbol'] 1.
v. To invent a new name for something temporary, in such a way that the name is almost certainly not in conflict with one already in use....
Red Book: n. 1. Informal name for one of the three standard references on {{PostScript}} ("PostScript Language Reference Manual", Adobe Systems (Addison-Wesley, 1985
QA76.73.P67P67; ISBN 0-201-10174-2, or the 1990 second edition ISBN 0-201-18127-4)...
elvish n. 1. The Tengwar of Feanor, a table of letterforms resembling the beautiful Celtic half-uncial hand of the "Book of Kells".
Invented and described by J. R. R. Tolkien in "The Lord of The Rings" as an orthography for his fictional `elvish' languages, this system (which is both visually and phonetically elegant) has long fascinated hackers (who tend to be intrigued by artificial languages in general)....
file signature: n. A {magic number}, sense 3. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
buzz: vi. 1. Of a program, to run with no indication of progress and perhaps without guarantee of ever finishing
esp. said of programs thought to be executing tight loops of code....
gillion: /gil'y*n/ or /jil'y*n/ [formed from {giga-} by analogy with mega/million and tera/trillion] n.
10^9. Same as an American billion or a British `milliard'....
golf-ball printer: n. The IBM 2741, a slow but letter-quality printing device and terminal based on the IBM Selectric typewriter.
The `golf ball' was a little spherical frob bearing reversed embossed images of 88 different characters arranged on four parallels of latitude...