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buglet

  1. noun A minor programming irritation that doesn't have to be fixed immediately but is probably so simple that it will be, for example a spelling mistake.
  2. noun A fiendishly complex situation (yet one capable of being reproduced) in which the expected results do not occur. Such buglets are usually unearthed by explorers who are true addicts. "If you light something and put it inside an inflammable container then pick up that container, you'll find that when the container itself catches fire the message you get says you're burned from the object inside the container rather than by the container itself". Er, yeah. See unrealistic.

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