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job security n.
jock n. 1. A programmer who is characterized by large and somewhat brute-force programs.
See brute force. 2....
joe code /joh' kohd`/ n. 1. Code that is overly tense and unmaintainable.
Perl may be a handy program, but if you look at the source, it's complete joe code....
jolix /joh'liks/ n.,adj. 386BSD, the freeware port of the BSD Net/2 release to the Intel i386 architecture by Bill Jolitz, Lynne Greer Jolitz, and friends.
Used to differentiate from BSDI...
juggling eggs vi. Keeping a lot of state in your head while modifying a program.
jump off into never-never land v. [from J. M.
jupiter vt. [IRC] To kill an IRC bot or user and then take its place by adopting its nick so that it cannot reconnect.
Named after a particular IRC user who did this to NickServ, the robo...
K /K/ n. [from kilo-] A kilobyte. Used both as a spoken word and a written suffix (like meg and gig for megabyte and gigabyte).
See quantifiers....
K&R [Kernighan and Ritchie] n. Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie's book "The C Programming Language", esp.
he classic and influential first edition (Prentice-Hall 1978; ISBN 0-13-110...
k- pref. [rare] Extremely. Rare among hackers, but quite common among crackers and warez d00dz in compounds such as `k-kool' /K'kool'/, `k-rad' /K'rad'/, and `k-awesome' /K'aw`sm/.
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