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• hacker humor A distinctive style of shared intellectual humor found among hackers, having the following marked characteristic
  1. Fascination with form-vs.-content jokes, paradoxes, and humor having to do with confusion of metalevels (see meta)....
• has the X nature: [seems to derive from Zen Buddhist koans of the form "Does an X have the Buddha-nature?
  ] adj. Common hacker construction for `is an X', used for humorous emphasis....
• has the X nature [seems to derive from Zen Buddhist koans of the form "Does an X have the Buddha-nature?
  ] adj. Common hacker construction for `is an X', used for humorous emphasis....
• mu /moo/ The correct answer to the classic trick question "Have you stopped beating your wife yet?
  . Assuming that you have no wife or you have never beaten your wife, the answer "yes" is wrong because it implies that you used to beat your wife and then stopped, but "no" is worse because it suggests that you have one and are still beating her....
• AI koans: /A-I koh'anz/ pl.n. A series of pastiches of Zen teaching riddles created by Danny Hillis at the MIT AI Lab around various major figures of the Lab's culture (several are included under "{A Selection of AI Koans}" in {Appendix A}).
  See also {ha ha only serious}, {mu}, and {{Humor, Hacker}}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• mu: /moo/ The correct answer to the classic trick question "Have you stopped beating your wife yet?
  . Assuming that you have no wife or you have never beaten your wife, the answer "yes" is wrong because it implies that you used to beat your wife and then stopped, but "no" is worse because it suggests that you have one and are still beating her....
• AI koans /A-I koh'anz/ pl.n. A series of pastiches of Zen teaching riddles created by Danny Hillis at the MIT AI Lab around various major figures of the Lab's culture (several are included under Some AI Koans in Appendix A).
  See also...
• ha ha only serious: [from SF fandom, orig. as mutation of HHOK, `Ha Ha Only Kidding'] A phrase (often seen abbreviated as HHOS) that aptly captures the flavor of much hacker discourse.
  Applied especially to parodies, absurdities, and ironic jokes that are both intended and perceived to contain a possibly disquieting amount of truth, or truths that are constructed on in-joke and self-parody....
• casting the runes: n. What a {guru} does when you ask him or her to run a particular program and type at it because it never works for anyone else
  esp. used when nobody can ever see what the guru is doing different from what J....