Related:

• XXX: /X-X-X/ n. A marker that attention is needed. Commonly used in program comments to indicate areas that are kluged up or need to be.
  Some hackers liken `XXX' to the notional heavy-porn movie rating....
• FIXME: imp. A standard tag often put in C comments near a piece of code that needs work.
  The point of doing so is that a `grep' or a similar pattern-matching tool can find all such places quickly....
• ome random X: adj. Used to indicate a member of class X, with the implication that Xs are interchangeable.
  I think some random cracker tripped over the guest timeout last night....
• XOFF: /X-of/ n. Syn. {control-S}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• XON: /X-on/ n. Syn. {control-Q}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• heavy wizardry: n. Code or designs that trade on a particularly intimate knowledge or experience of a particular operating system or language or complex application interface.
  Distinguished from {deep magic}, which trades more on arcane *theoretical* knowledge....
• ignal-to-noise ratio: [from analog electronics] n.
  Used by hackers in a generalization of its technical meaning....
• winged comments: n. Comments set on the same line as code, as opposed to {boxed comments}.
  In C, for example: d = sqrt(x*x + y*y); /* distance from origin */ Generally these refer only to the action(s) taken on that line....
• oftware bloat: n. The results of {second-system effect} or {creeping featuritis}.
  Commonly cited examples include `ls(1)', {X}, {BSD}, {Missed'em-five}, and {OS/2}....