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• hacked up: adj. Sufficiently patched, kluged, and tweaked that the surgical scars are beginning to crowd out normal tissue (compare {critical mass}).
  Not all programs that are hacked become `hacked up'...
• hack up vt. To hack, but generally implies that the result is a hack in sense 1 (a quick hack).
  Contrast this with hack on. To `hack up on' implies a quick-and-dirty modification to an existing system....
• hack up: vt. To {hack}, but generally implies that the result is a hack in sense 1 (a quick hack).
  Contrast this with {hack on}. To `hack up on' implies a {quick-and-dirty} modification to an existing system....
• hacked off adj. [analogous to `pissed off'] Said of system administrators who have become annoyed
  upset, or touchy owing to suspicions that their sites have been or are going to be victimized by crackers, or used for inappropriate, technically illegal, or even overtly criminal activities....
• blivet /bliv'*t/ n. [allegedly from a World War II military term meaning "ten pounds of manure in a five-pound bag"] 1.
  An intractable problem. 2. A crucial piece of hardware that can't be fixed or replaced if it breaks....
• blivet: /bliv'*t/ [allegedly from a World War II military term meaning "ten pounds of manure in a five-pound bag"] n.
  1. An intractable problem. 2. A crucial piece of hardware that can't be fixed or replaced if it breaks....
• hidden flag n. [scientific computation] An extra option added to a routine without changing the calling sequence.
  For example, instead of adding an explicit input variable to instruct a routine to give extra diagnostic output, the programmer might just add a test for some otherwise meaningless feature of the existing inputs, such as a negative mass....
• hidden flag: [scientific computation] n. An extra option added to a routine without changing the calling sequence.
  For example, instead of adding an explicit input variable to instruct a routine to give extra diagnostic output, the programmer might just add a test for some otherwise meaningless feature of the existing inputs, such as a negative mass....
• kluge up vt. To lash together a quick hack to perform a task
  his is milder than cruft together and has some of the connotations of hack up (note, however, that the construction `kluge on' corresponding to hack on is never used)....