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marbles |
3 definitions found From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: marbles n : a children's game played with little balls made of a hard substance (as glass) From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]: marbles pl.n. [from mainstream "lost all his/her marbles"] The minimum needed to build your way further up some hierarchy of tools or abstractions. After a bad system crash, you need to determine if the machine has enough marbles to come up on its own or enough marbles to allow a rebuild from backups, or if you need to rebuild from scratch. "This compiler doesn't even have enough marbles to compile {hello world}." From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: marbles(From the mainstream "lost his marbles") The minimum needed to build your way further up some hierarchy of tools or abstractions. After a bad system {crash}, you need to determine if the machine has enough marbles to come up on its own or enough marbles to allow a rebuild from {backups}, or if you need to rebuild from scratch. "This {compiler} doesn't even have enough marbles to compile {hello, world}." [{Jargon File}] (1998-05-21)
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