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v. intr. [MIT AI Lab, after 2000: orig. probably from a Ren & Stimpy episode.] Any seemingly pointless activity which is actually necessary to solve a problem which solves a problem which, several levels of recursion later, solves the real problem you're working on.
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20051116 Wednesday November 16, 2005
File editing with IM
Chatting over IM with a coworker about editing some perl format configuration files.

Emoticon translations really lower the efficiency of this process.

$foo::Debug != $foo:[Big Grin]ebug

especially when copy/paste ignores the emoticon


Nov 16 2005, 07:27:21 PM EST Permalink

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