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• break: 1. vt. To cause to be {broken} (in any sense).
  Your latest patch to the editor broke the paragraph commands....
• break 1. vt. To cause to be broken (in any sense).
  "Your latest patch to the editor broke the paragraph commands....
• chase pointers: 1. vi. To go through multiple levels of indirection, as in traversing a linked list or graph structure.
  Used esp. by programmers in C, where explicit pointers are a very common data type....
• line noise: n. 1. [techspeak] Spurious characters due to electrical noise in a communications link, especially an RS-232 serial connection.
  Line noise may be induced by poor connections, interference or crosstalk from other circuits, electrical storms, {cosmic rays}, or (notionally) birds crapping on the phone wires....
• pathological: adj. 1. [scientific computation] Used of a data set that is grossly atypical of normal expected input, esp.
  one that exposes a weakness or bug in whatever algorithm one is using....
• pathological adj. 1. [scientific computation] Used of a data set that is grossly atypical of normal expected input, esp.
  one that exposes a weakness or bug in whatever algorithm one is using....
• finger: [WAITS, via BSD UNIX] 1. n. A program that displays information about a particular user or all users logged on the system, or a remote system.
  Typically shows full name, last login time, idle time, terminal line, and terminal location (where applicable)....
• demon: n. 1. [MIT] A portion of a program that is not invoked explicitly, but that lies dormant waiting for some condition(s) to occur.
  See {daemon}. The distinction is that demons are usually processes within a program, while daemons are usually programs running on an operating system....
• hardcoded adj. 1. [common] Said of data inserted directly into a program
  where it cannot be easily modified, as opposed to data in some profile, resource (see de-rezz sense 2), or environment variable that a user or hacker can easily modify....