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• hotgun debugging n. The software equivalent of Easter egging
  he making of relatively undirected changes to the hope that a bug will be perturbed out of existence....
• Easter egging n. [IBM] The act of replacing unrelated components more or less at random in hopes that a malfunction will go away.
  Hackers consider this the normal operating mode of field circus techs and do not love them for it....
• Easter egging: [IBM] n. The act of replacing unrelated components more or less at random in hopes that a malfunction will go away.
  Hackers consider this the normal operating mode of {field circus} techs and do not love them for it....
• critical mass n. In physics, the minimum amount of fissionable material required to sustain a chain reaction.
  Of a software product, describes a condition of the software such that fixing one bug introduces one plus epsilon bugs....
• critical mass: n. In physics, the minimum amount of fissionable material required to sustain a chain reaction.
  Of a software product, describes a condition of the software such that fixing one bug introduces one plus {epsilon} bugs....
• weak vt. 1. To change slightly, usually in reference to a value.
  Also used synonymously with twiddle. If a program is almost correct, rather than figure out the precise problem you might just keep tweaking it until it works....
• weak: vt. 1. To change slightly, usually in reference to a value.
  Also used synonymously with {twiddle}. If a program is almost correct, rather than figure out the precise problem you might just keep tweaking it until it works....
• freeze v. To lock an evolving software distribution or document against changes so it can be released with some hope of stability.
  Carries the strong implication that the item in question will `unfreeze' at some future date....
• freeze: v. To lock an evolving software distribution or document against changes so it can be released with some hope of stability.
  Carries the strong implication that the item in question will `unfreeze' at some future date....