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• wango: /wang'goh/ n. Random bit-level {grovel}ling going on in a system during some unspecified operation.
  Often used in combination with {mumble}. For example...
• magic number n. [Unix/C; common] 1. In source code
  some non-obvious constant whose value is significant to the operation of a program and that is inserted inconspicuously in-line (hardcoded), rather than expanded in by a symbol set by a commented #define....
• mumble interj. 1. Said when the correct response is too complicated to enunciate, or the speaker has not thought it out.
  Often prefaces a longer answer, or indicates a general reluctance to get into a long discussion....
• 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....
• Mumble.
• percent-S /per-sent' es'/ n. [From the code in C's printf(3) library function used to insert an arbitrary string argument] An unspecified person or object.
  I was just talking to some percent-s in administration." Compare random....
• 0366 Have you written a Sendmail configuration file?
  0367 ... Does it work? 0368 ... Do you mumble "defocus" in your sleep? -- from THE HACKER TEST...
• metasyntactic variable n. A name used in examples and understood to stand for whatever thing is under discussion, or any random member of a class of things under discussion.
  The word foo is the canonical example. To avoid confusion, hackers never (well, hardly ever) use `foo' or other words like it as permanent names for anything....
• andom adj. 1. Unpredictable (closest to mathematical definition)
  weird. "The system's been behaving pretty randomly....