Wave A Dead Chicken V. To Perform A Ritual In The Direction Of Crashed Software Or Hardware That One Believes To Be Futile But Is Nevertheless Necessary So That Others Are Satisfied That An Appropriate Degree Of Effort Has Been Expended.

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wave a dead chicken v.

To perform a ritual in the direction
of crashed software or hardware that one believes to be futile but
is nevertheless necessary so that others are satisfied that an
appropriate degree of effort has been expended. "I'll wave a dead
chicken over the source code, but I really think we've run into an
OS bug." Compare voodoo programming, rain dance
casting the runes.

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