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    [TMRC] prov. For any story, in any group of people there will be at least one person who has not heard the story. [The... VIEW ENTIRE DEFINITION


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    juggling eggs

    vi. Keeping a lot of state in your head while modifying a program. "Don't bother me now, I'm juggling eggs", means that an interrupt is likely to result in the program's being scrambled. In the classic first-contact SF novel `The Mote in God's Eye', by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, an alien describes a very difficult task by saying "We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity." That is a very hackish use of language. See also hack mode.