[from Hunter S. Thompson]
1. With total commitment, total concentration, and a mad sort of
panache. (Thompson's original sense.) 2. More loosely:
Overwhelming; outrageous; over the top; very large, esp. used of
collections of source code, source files, or individual functions.
Has some of the connotations of moby and hairy, but
without the implication of obscurity or complexity.
magic number n.
[Unix/C; common] 1. In source code
some non-obvious constant whose value is significant to the
operation of a program and that is inserted inconspicuously in-line
(hardcoded), rather than expanded in by a symbol set by a
commented #define....