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moke and mirrors n. Marketing deceptions. The term is mainstream in this general sense.
moke test n. 1.
moking clover n. [ITS] A display hack originally due to Bill Gosper.
Many convergent lines are drawn on a color monitor in such a way that every pixel struck has its color incremented....
SMOP /S-M-O-P/ n. [Simple (or Small) Matter of Programming] 1.
A piece of code, not yet written, whose anticipated length is significantly greater than its complexity....
murf /smerf/ n. [from the soc.motss newsgroup on Usenet, after some obnoxiously gooey cartoon characters] A newsgroup regular with a habitual style that is irreverent, silly, and cute.
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SNAFU principle /sna'foo prin'si-pl/ n.
ail vt. To snail-mail something. "Snail me a copy of those graphics, will you?
ail-mail n. Paper mail, as opposed to electronic.
Sometimes written as the single word `SnailMail'....
ap v. To replace a pointer to a pointer with a direct pointe
o replace an old address with the forwarding address found there....
arf /snarf/ vt. 1. To grab, esp. to grab a large document or file for the purpose of using it with or without the author's permission.
See also BLT. 2. [in the Unix community] To fetch...

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