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• hack mode n. 1. What one is in when hacking, of course.
  2. More specifically, a Zen-like state of total focus on The Problem that may be achieved when one is hacking (this is why every good hacker is part mystic)....
• heads down [Sun] adj. Concentrating, usually so heavily and for so long that everything outside the focus area is missed.
  See also hack mode and larval stage, although this mode is hardly confined to fledgling hackers....
• eal hack n. A crock. This is sometimes used affectionately; see hack.
• oglodyte mode n. [Rice University] Programming with the lights turned off
  unglasses on, and the terminal inverted (black on white) because you've been up for so many days straight that your eyes hurt (see raster burn)....
• oglodyte mode: [Rice University] n. Programming with the lights turned off
  unglasses on, and the terminal inverted (black on white) because you've been up for so many days straight that your eyes hurt (see {raster burn})....
• mode n. [common] A general state, usually used with an adjective describing the state.
  Use of the word `mode' rather than `state' implies that the state is extended over time, and probably also that some activity characteristic of that state is being carried out....
• heads down: [Sun] adj. Concentrating, usually so heavily and for so long that everything outside the focus area is missed.
  See also {hack mode} and {larval stage}, although this mode is hardly confined to fledgling hackers....
• ight mode n. See phase (of people).
• burn-in period: n. 1. A factory test designed to catch systems with {marginal} components before they get out the doo
  he theory is that burn-in will protect customers by outwaiting the steepest part of the {bathtub curve} (see {infant mortality})....