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• fix: n.,v. What one does when a problem has been reported too many times to be ignored.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• DWIM /dwim/ [acronym, `Do What I Mean'] 1. adj. Able to guess, sometimes even correctly, the result intended when bogus input was provided.
  2. n. obs. The BBNLISP/INTERLISP function that attempted to accomplish this feat by correcting many of the more common errors....
• TLA /T-L-A/ n. [Three-Letter Acronym] 1. Self-describing abbreviation for a species with which computing terminology is infested.
  2. Any confusing acronym. Examples include MCA, FTP, SNA, CPU, MMU, SCCS, DMU, FPU, NNTP, TLA....
• TLA: /T-L-A/ [Three-Letter Acronym] n. 1. Self-describing abbreviation for a species with which computing terminology is infested.
  2. Any confusing acronym. Examples include MCA, FTP, SNA, CPU, MMU, SCCS, DMU, FPU, NNTP, TLA....
• paghetti code n. Code with a complex and tangled control structure, esp.
  one using many GOTOs, exceptions, or other `unstructured' branching constructs....
• paghetti code: n. Code with a complex and tangled control structure, esp.
  one using many GOTOs, exceptions, or other `unstructured' branching constructs....
• brute force adj. Describes a primitive programming style
  one in which the programmer relies on the computer's processing power instead of using his or her own intelligence to simplify the problem, often ignoring problems of scale and applying naive methods suited to small problems directly to large ones....
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you are looking at an ASCII core dump of your OS project which has many O's and &'s in it (among other things), and you shou
  "I see the problem. Orcs are attacking my demons....
• Been short on oxygen one time too many.