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• web pointer n. A World Wide Web URL. See also hotlink, which has slightly different connotations.
• dead link n. [very common] A World-Wide-Web URL that no longer points to the information it was written to reach.
  Usually this happens because the document has been moved or deleted....
• hambolic link /sham-bol'ik link/ n. A Unix symbolic link
  particularly when it confuses you, points to nothing at all, or results in your ending up in some completely unexpected part of the filesystem....
• hambolic link: /sham-bol'ik link/ n. A UNIX symbolic link
  particularly when it confuses you, points to nothing at all, or results in your ending up in some completely unexpected part of the filesystem....
• hot spot n. 1. [primarily used by C/Unix programmers, but spreading] It is received wisdom that in most programs, less than 10% of the code eats 90% of the execution time
  if one were to graph instruction visits versus code addresses, one would typically see a few huge spikes amidst a lot of low-level noise....
• link rot n. The natural decay of web links as the sites they're connected to change or die.
  Compare bit rot....
• This communication link monitored by your Sysop.
• crapplet n. [portmanteau, crap + applet] A worthless applet, esp.
  a Java widget attached to a web page that doesn't work or even crashes your browser....
• hot spot: n. 1. [primarily used by C/UNIX programmers, but spreading] It is received wisdom that in most programs, less than 10% of the code eats 90% of the execution time
  if one were to graph instruction visits versus code addresses, one would typically see a few huge spikes amidst a lot of low-level noise....