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• hacking run n. [analogy with `bombing run' or `speed run'] A hack session extended long outside normal working times, especially one longer than 12 hours.
  May cause you to `change phase the hard way' (see phase)....
• phase: 1. n. The offset of one's waking-sleeping schedule with respect to the standard 24-hour cycle
  a useful concept among people who often work at night and/or according to no fixed schedule....
• phase 1. n. The offset of one's waking-sleeping schedule with respect to the standard 24-hour cycle
  a useful concept among people who often work at night and/or according to no fixed schedule....
• wrap around: vi. (also n. `wraparound' and v. shorthand `wrap') 1.
  [techspeak] The action of a counter that starts over at zero or at `minus infinity' (see {infinity}) after its maximum value has been reached, and continues incrementing, either because it is programmed to do so or because of an overflow (as when a car's odometer starts over at 0)....
• hack attack: [poss. by analogy with `Big Mac Attack' from ads for the McDonald's fast-food chai
  he variant `big hack attack' is reported] n. Nearly synonymous with {hacking run}, though the latter more strongly implies an all-nighter....
• larval stage: n. Describes a period of monomaniacal concentration on coding apparently passed through by all fledgling hackers.
  Common symptoms include the perpetration of more than one 36-hour {hacking run} in a given week...
• Long may you run.
• prime time: [from TV programming] n. Normal high-usage hours on a timesharing system
  he day shift. Avoidance of prime time was traditionally given as a major reason for {night mode} hacking....
• wabbit: /wab'it/ [almost certainly from Elmer Fudd's immortal line "You wascawwy wabbit!
  ] n. 1. A legendary early hack reported on a System/360 at RPI and elsewhere around 1978...