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  • verb Present participle of recompile.

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  • Right after he gives her his random seed, at which point her kernel will begin recompiling.

    Video: man in Japan weds anime game character Boing Boing 2009

  • Voodoo Programming: Things programmers do that they know shouldn't work but they try anyway, and which sometimes actually work, such as recompiling everything.

    The Fortune Cookie File from Karl Lehenbauer Part 5 1989

  • The director of the Imaginary Foundation described our work as "some kind of Ontological DJ'ing, recompiling the source code of western philosophy by mixing and mashing it up into a form of recombinant creativity, which hopefully elevates our understanding from the dry and prosaic, into the sensual and transcendent."

    Jason Silva: The Beginning of Infinity Jason Silva 2011

  • The director of the Imaginary Foundation described our work as "some kind of Ontological DJ'ing, recompiling the source code of western philosophy by mixing and mashing it up into a form of recombinant creativity, which hopefully elevates our understanding from the dry and prosaic, into the sensual and transcendent."

    Jason Silva: The Beginning of Infinity Jason Silva 2011

  • The director of the Imaginary Foundation described our work as "some kind of Ontological DJ'ing, recompiling the source code of western philosophy by mixing and mashing it up into a form of recombinant creativity, which hopefully elevates our understanding from the dry and prosaic, into the sensual and transcendent."

    Jason Silva: The Beginning of Infinity Jason Silva 2011

  • The director of the Imaginary Foundation described our work as "some kind of Ontological DJ'ing, recompiling the source code of western philosophy by mixing and mashing it up into a form of recombinant creativity, which hopefully elevates our understanding from the dry and prosaic, into the sensual and transcendent."

    Jason Silva: The Beginning of Infinity Jason Silva 2011

  • So I went in search of clear and concise documentation for the mysterious. config file that is the foundation of recompiling the Linux kernel.

    Kernel dreams and compilation nightmares William "Papa" Meloney 2007

  • So I set the system compiling up a custom kernel to replace the GENERIC one I was running, and recompiling the contents of /usr/pkg my installed packages, which were all compiled for the old kernel so running under emulation.

    Snell-Pym » A stressful upgrade - and a design for a better backup system 2008

  • Still just a couple shy of recompiling my original list...

    Comics Should Be Good’s Top 100 Comic Book Runs | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008

  • The assumption is that everyone is online reading all of the blogs and twitters and links and God-knows what else there will be in the future, and then recompiling everything for themselves to come up with the news of the day.

    A complete ecology of news « BuzzMachine 2008

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