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    n. It is common lore among hackers (and in the electronics industry at large; this term is possibly techspeak by now) that the chances... VIEW ENTIRE DEFINITION


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    desk check

    n.,v. To grovel over hardcopy of source code, mentally simulating the control flow; a method of catching bugs. No longer common practice in this age of on-screen editing, fast compiles, and sophisticated debuggers --- though some maintain stoutly that it ought to be. Compare eyeball search, vdiff, vgrep.