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Bob Mottram
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<H2>Generated</H2>
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This file last generated Monday, 10 August 2020 03:08PM UTC
This file last generated Thursday, 26 November 2020 08:02PM UTC
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<H2>Glossary</H2>
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<p>1. An 8 bit Acorn computer from the early 1980s, regarded as being a budget version of the BBC Micro. </p>
<p>2. A very inefficient way of packaging web systems for use as stand alone desktop apps by bundling them with a chromium web browser. Given the amount of system resources which web browsers consume this could make electron apps very sluggish, and running multiple such apps could be hazardous.</p>
<H4>electron</H4>
<p>1. An 8 bit Acorn computer from the early 1980s, regarded as being a budget version of the BBC Micro. </p>
<p>2. A very inefficient way of packaging web applications for use in desktop environments by bundling them with a web browser.</p>
<H4>elegant</H4>
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adj. [common; from mathematical usage] Combining simplicity, power, and a certain ineffable grace of design. Higher praise than clever , winning , or even cuspy. The French aviator, adventurer, and author Antoine de Saint-Exupry, probably best known for his classic children's book The Little Prince , was also an aircraft designer. He gave us perhaps the best definition of engineering elegance when he said A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.