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• oglodyte mode: [Rice University] n. Programming with the lights turned off
  unglasses on, and the terminal inverted (black on white) because you've been up for so many days straight that your eyes hurt (see {raster burn})....
• 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)....
• deep hack mode n. See hack mode.
• burn-in period: n. 1. A factory test designed to catch systems with {marginal} components before they get out the doo
  he theory is that burn-in will protect customers by outwaiting the steepest part of the {bathtub curve} (see {infant mortality})....
• heads down [Sun] adj. Concentrating, usually so heavily and for so long that everything outside the focus area is missed.
  See also hack mode and larval stage, although this mode is hardly confined to fledgling hackers....
• burn-in period n. 1. A factory test designed to catch systems with marginal components before they get out the doo
  the theory is that burn-in will protect customers by outwaiting the steepest part of the bathtub curve (see infant mortali using a computer is so intensely involved in his project that he forgets basic needs such as food, drink, sleep, etc....
• heads down: [Sun] adj. Concentrating, usually so heavily and for so long that everything outside the focus area is missed.
  See also {hack mode} and {larval stage}, although this mode is hardly confined to fledgling hackers....
• aster burn: n. Eyestrain brought on by too many hours of looking at low-res, poorly tuned, or glare-ridden monitors, esp.
  graphics monitors. See {terminal illness}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• aster burn n. Eyestrain brought on by too many hours of looking at low-res, poorly tuned, or glare-ridden monitors, esp.
  graphics monitors. See terminal illness....