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• grok: /grok/, var. /grohk/ [from the novel "Stranger in a Strange Land", by Robert A.
  Heinlein, where it is a Martian word meaning literally `to drink' and metaphorically `to be one with'] vt....
• zen vt. To figure out something by meditation or by a sudden flash of enlightenment.
  Originally applied to bugs, but occasionally applied to problems of life in general....
• zen: vt. To figure out something by meditation or by a sudden flash of enlightenment.
  Originally applied to bugs, but occasionally applied to problems of life in general....
• You grok?
• glark /glark/ vt. To figure something out from context.
  "The System III manuals are pretty poor, but you can generally glark the meaning from context....
• glark: /glark/ vt. To figure something out from context.
  The System III manuals are pretty poor, but you can generally glark the meaning from context....
• Genius From Mars Technique n. [TMRC] A visionary quality which enables one to ignore the standard approach and come up with a totally unexpected new algorithm.
  An attack on a problem from an offbeat angle that no one has ever thought of before, but that in retrospect makes total sense....
• hack mode n. 1. What one is in when hacking, of course.
  2. More specifically, a Zen-like state of total focus on The Problem that may be achieved when one is hacking (this is why every good hacker is part mystic)....
• under the hood adj. [hot-rodder talk] 1. Used to introduce the underlying implementation of a product (hardware, software, or idea).
  Implies that the implementation is not intuitively obvious from the appearance, but the speaker is about to enable the listener to grok it....