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</p> </p>
<H2>Generated</H2> <H2>Generated</H2>
<p> <p>
This file last generated Monday, 10 August 2020 03:08PM UTC This file last generated Thursday, 26 November 2020 08:02PM UTC
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<H2>Glossary</H2> <H2>Glossary</H2>
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<p>1. An 8 bit Acorn computer from the early 1980s, regarded as being a budget version of the BBC Micro. </p> <p>1. An 8 bit Acorn computer from the early 1980s, regarded as being a budget version of the BBC Micro. </p>
<p>2. A very inefficient way of packaging web systems for use as stand alone desktop apps by bundling them with a chromium web browser. Given the amount of system resources which web browsers consume this could make electron apps very sluggish, and running multiple such apps could be hazardous.</p> <p>2. A very inefficient way of packaging web systems for use as stand alone desktop apps by bundling them with a chromium web browser. Given the amount of system resources which web browsers consume this could make electron apps very sluggish, and running multiple such apps could be hazardous.</p>
<H4>electron</H4>
<p>1. An 8 bit Acorn computer from the early 1980s, regarded as being a budget version of the BBC Micro. </p>
<p>2. A very inefficient way of packaging web applications for use in desktop environments by bundling them with a web browser.</p>
<H4>elegant</H4> <H4>elegant</H4>
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adj. [common; from mathematical usage] Combining simplicity, power, and a certain ineffable grace of design. Higher praise than clever , winning , or even cuspy. The French aviator, adventurer, and author Antoine de Saint-Exupry, probably best known for his classic children's book The Little Prince , was also an aircraft designer. He gave us perhaps the best definition of engineering elegance when he said A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. adj. [common; from mathematical usage] Combining simplicity, power, and a certain ineffable grace of design. Higher praise than clever , winning , or even cuspy. The French aviator, adventurer, and author Antoine de Saint-Exupry, probably best known for his classic children's book The Little Prince , was also an aircraft designer. He gave us perhaps the best definition of engineering elegance when he said A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

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@ -3793,11 +3793,6 @@ n. The heroic age of hackerdom (roughly, pre-1980); the era of the PDP-10 , TECO
2. A very inefficient way of packaging web systems for use as stand alone desktop apps by bundling them with a chromium web browser. Given the amount of system resources which web browsers consume this could make electron apps very sluggish, and running multiple such apps could be hazardous. 2. A very inefficient way of packaging web systems for use as stand alone desktop apps by bundling them with a chromium web browser. Given the amount of system resources which web browsers consume this could make electron apps very sluggish, and running multiple such apps could be hazardous.
*** electron
1. An 8 bit Acorn computer from the early 1980s, regarded as being a budget version of the BBC Micro.
2. A very inefficient way of packaging web applications for use in desktop environments by bundling them with a web browser.
*** elegant *** elegant
adj. [common; from mathematical usage] Combining simplicity, power, and a certain ineffable grace of design. Higher praise than clever , winning , or even cuspy. The French aviator, adventurer, and author Antoine de Saint-Exupry, probably best known for his classic children's book The Little Prince , was also an aircraft designer. He gave us perhaps the best definition of engineering elegance when he said A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. adj. [common; from mathematical usage] Combining simplicity, power, and a certain ineffable grace of design. Higher praise than clever , winning , or even cuspy. The French aviator, adventurer, and author Antoine de Saint-Exupry, probably best known for his classic children's book The Little Prince , was also an aircraft designer. He gave us perhaps the best definition of engineering elegance when he said A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

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were said to grow scar tissue ). The result was often a convoluted patch were said to grow scar tissue ). The result was often a convoluted patch
space and headaches galore. 5. space and headaches galore. 5.
The term originates from the earliest digital computers which used paper
tape or punched cards in the 1940s. To fix a problem you would glue a
physical patch of tape or paper over the holes.