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whack v. According to arch-hacker James Gosling (designer of NeWS, GOSMACS and Java), to ".
..modify a program with no idea whatsoever how it works....
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 and repeatedly...
whacker n. [University of Maryland: from hacker] 1.
A person, similar to a hacker, who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities....
whales n. See like kicking dead whales down the beach.
whalesong n.
What's a spline? [XEROX PARC] This phrase expands to
You have just used a term that I've heard for a year and a half, and I feel I should know, but don't....
wheel n. [from slang `big wheel' for a powerful person] A person who has an active wheel bit.
We need to find a wheel to unwedge the hung tape drives....
wheel bit n.
wheel of reincarnation [coined in a paper by T.
H. Myer and I.E. Sutherland "On the Design of Display Processors", Comm....
wheel wars n.

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