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HTH // [Usenet: very common] Abbreviation: Hope This Helps (e.
g. following a response to a technical question). Often used just before HAND. See also YHBT....
huff v. To compress data using a Huffman code. Various programs that use such methods have been called `HUFF' or some variant thereof.
Oppose puff. Compare crunch, compress....
humma // excl. A filler word used on various `chat' and `talk' programs when you had nothing to say but felt that it was important to say something.
The word apparently originated (at lea...
hung adj. [from `hung up'; common] Equivalent to wedged, but more common at Unix/C sites.
Not generally used of people. Syn. with locked up, wedged...
hungry puppy n. Syn. slopsucker.
hungus /huhng'g*s/ adj. [perhaps related to slang `humongous'] Large, unwieldy, usually unmanageable.
TCP is a hungus piece of code." "This is a hungus set of modifications." The Infoc...
hyperspace /hi:'per-spays/ n.
hysterical reasons n.
I didn't change anything! interj. An aggrieved cry often heard as bugs manifest during a regression test.
The canonical reply to this assertion is "Then it works just the same as it did b...
I see no X here. Hackers (and the interactive computer games they write) traditionally favor this slightly marked usage over other possible equivalents such as "There's no X here!
or "X i...

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