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• hex n. 1. Short for hexadecimal, base 16. 2. A 6-pack of anything (compare quad, sense 2).
  Neither usage has anything to do with magic or black art, though the pun is appreciated and occasionally used by hackers....
• quad: n. 1. Two bits; syn. for {quarter}, {crumb}, {tayste}.
  2. A four-pack of anything (compare {hex}, sense 2)....
• black magic: n. A technique that works, though nobody really understands why.
  More obscure than {voodoo programming}, which may be done by cookbook....
• deep magic: [poss. from C. S. Lewis's "Narnia" books] n.
  An awesomely arcane technique central to a program or system, esp....
• quad n. 1. Two bits; syn. for quarter, crumb, tayste.
  2. A four-pack of anything (compare hex, sense 2)....
• dump: n. 1. An undigested and voluminous mass of information about a problem or the state of a system
  especially one routed to the slowest available output device (compare {core dump}), and most especially one consisting of hex or octal {runes} describing the byte-by-byte state of memory, mass storage, or some file....
• ain dance: n. 1. Any ceremonial action taken to correct a hardware problem, with the expectation that nothing will be accomplished.
  This especially applies to reseating printed circuit boards, reconnecting cables, etc....
• bomb: 1. v. General synonym for {crash} (sense 1) except that it is not used as a nou
  esp. used of software or OS failures. "Don't run Empire with less than 32K stack, it'll bomb....
• deep magic n. [poss. from C. S. Lewis's "Narnia" books] An awesomely arcane technique central to a program or system, esp.
  one neither generally published nor available to hackers at large (compare black art)...