state n.
1. Condition, situation. "What's the state of
your latest hack?" "It's winning away." "The system tried to
read and write the disk simultaneously and got into a totally
wedged state." The standard question "What's your state?"
means "What are you doing?" or "What are you about to do?"
Typical answers are "about to gronk out", or "hungry". Another
standard question is "What's the state of the world?", meaning
"What's new?" or "What's going on?". The more terse and
humorous way of asking these questions would be "State-p?".
Another way of phrasing the first question under sense 1 would be
"state-p latest hack?". 2. Information being maintained in
non-permanent memory (electronic or human).
1. Condition, situation. "What's the state of
your latest hack?" "It's winning away." "The system tried to
read and write the disk simultaneously and got into a totally
wedged state." The standard question "What's your state?"
means "What are you doing?" or "What are you about to do?"
Typical answers are "about to gronk out", or "hungry". Another
standard question is "What's the state of the world?", meaning
"What's new?" or "What's going on?". The more terse and
humorous way of asking these questions would be "State-p?".
Another way of phrasing the first question under sense 1 would be
"state-p latest hack?". 2. Information being maintained in
non-permanent memory (electronic or human).
Related:
- ate: n. 1. Condition, situation. "What's the state of your
latest hack?
It's winning away." "The system tried to read and write the disk simultaneously and got into a totally {wedged} state.... - bit n.
[from the mainstream meaning and `Binary digIT']
1.
[techspeak] The unit of information; the amount of information obtained by asking a yes-or-no question for which the two outcomes are equally probable.... - hack
[very common] 1. n. Originally, a quick job that
produces what is needed, but not well.
2. n. An incredibly good, and perhaps very time-consuming, piece of work that produces exactly what is needed.... - hack mode n.
1. What one is in when hacking, of course.
2. More specifically, a Zen-like state of total focus on The Problem that may be achieved when one is hacking (this is why every good hacker is part mystic).... - The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a
meaning to music?
' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?... - The `-P' convention: --------------------- Turning a word into a
question by appending the syllable `P'
from the LISP convention of appending the letter `P' to denote a predicate (a boolean-valued function).... - CA, the Granola State - What ain't fruits is nutz.
- wedged adj.
1. To be stuck, incapable of proceeding
without help.
This is different from having crashed. If the system has crashed, it has become totally non-functioning.... - What did the state table say to bitstring? I don't recognize you.
