index of X n.
See coefficient of X.
See coefficient of X.
Related:
- factor n.
See coefficient of X... - quotient n.
See coefficient of X... - nature n.
See has the X nature... - coefficient of X n.
Hackish speech makes heavy use of
pseudo-mathematical metaphors.
Four particularly important ones involve the terms... - XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
X X X
X
\ / X X X V X X X ... - signal-to-noise ratio: [from analog electronics] n.
Used by hackers in a generalization of its technical... - XOFF /X-of/ n.
Syn.
control-S... - XXXXX
X X
X * * X
X* *X
X ***** X
X X ... - A/~~\A
| LEAVING ALABAMA | ((o o))___
| Set your watch up an | \ / ~~~
# | hour .
set your | # (--)\ # x--#---x-...
From the same category:
- salt n.
A tiny bit of near-random data inserted where too
much regularity would be undesirable;
a data frob (sense 1). For example, the Unix crypt(3)... - tarball n.
[very common; prob. based on the "tar
baby" in the Uncle Remus folk tales] An archive,
created with the Unix tar(1) utility, containing... - whack-a-mole n.
[Usenet] The practice of repeatedly
causing spammers' throwaway accounts and drop boxes to be
terminated.
Named for the carnival game which involves quickly... - PDP-20 n.
The most famous computer that never was.
PDP-10 computers running the TOPS-10 operating system... - recursive acronym n.
A hackish (and especially MIT)
tradition is to choose acronyms/abbreviations that refer humorously
to themselves or to other acronyms/abbreviations.
The classic ...
