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• hand-roll v. [from obs. mainstream slang `hand-rolled' in opposition to `ready-made'
  eferring to cigarettes] To perform a normally automated software installation or configuration process by hand...
• une: [from automotive or musical usage] vt. To optimize a program or system for a particular environment, esp.
  by adjusting numerical parameters designed as {hook}s for tuning, e....
• hand-hacking: n. 1. The practice of translating {hot spot}s from an {HLL} into hand-tuned assembler, as opposed to trying to coerce the compiler into generating better code.
  Both the term and the practice are becoming uncommon....
• chomp: vi. To {lose}; specifically, to chew on something of which more was bitten off than one can.
  Probably related to gnashing of teeth. See {bagbiter}....
• You can trust your public utility about as far as you can hand roll a bulldozer. -- Edward Abbey
• une vt. [from automotive or musical usage] To optimize a program or system for a particular environment, esp.
  by adjusting numerical parameters designed as hooks for tuning, e....
• einvent the wheel: v. To design or implement a tool equivalent to an existing one or part of one, with the implication that doing so is silly or a waste of time.
  This is often a valid criticism. On the other hand, automobiles don't use wooden rollers, and some kinds of wheel have to be reinvented many times before you get them right....
• dot file: [UNIX] n. A file that is not visible by default to normal directory-browsing tools (on UNIX
  files named with a leading dot are, by convention, not normally presented in directory listings)....
• backward combatability: /bak'w*rd k*m-bat'*-bil'*-tee/ [from `backward compatibility'] n.
  A property of hardware or software revisions in which previous protocols, formats, layouts, etc....