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• hack value: n. Often adduced as the reason or motivation for expending effort toward a seemingly useless goal, the point being that the accomplished goal is a hack.
  For example, MacLISP had features for reading and printing Roman numerals, which were installed purely for hack value....
• 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)....
• eat hack: n. 1. A clever technique. 2. A brilliant practical joke, where neatness is correlated with cleverness, harmlessness, and surprise value.
  Example: the Caltech Rose Bowl card display switch (see "{The Meaning of `Hack'}", appendix A)....
• eat hack n. [very common] 1. A clever technique.
  2. A brilliant practical joke, where neatness is correlated with cleverness, harmlessness, and surprise value....
• bit n. [from the mainstream meaning and `Binary digIT'] 1.
  [techspeak] The unit of information; the amount of information obtained by asking a yes-or-no question for which the two outcomes are equally probable....
• If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. -- Louis Armstrong
• deep hack mode n. See hack mode.
• display hack: n. A program with the same approximate purpose as a kaleidoscope
  o make pretty pictures. Famous display hacks include {munching squares}, {smoking clover}, the BSD UNIX `rain(6)' program, `worms(6)' on miscellaneous UNIXes, and the {X} `kaleid(1)' program....
• Hack first, ask questions later.