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fuck me harder excl. Sometimes uttered in response to egregious misbehavior, esp.
in software, and esp....
FUD /fuhd/ n. Defined by Gene Amdahl after he left IBM to found his own company
FUD wars /fuhd worz/ n.
fudge 1. vt. To perform in an incomplete but marginally acceptable way, particularly with respect to the writing of a program.
I didn't feel like going through that pain and suffering...
fudge factor n. [common] A value or parameter that is varied in an ad hoc way to produce the desired result.
The terms `tolerance' and slop are also used, though these usually indicate a...
fuel up vi. To eat or drink hurriedly in order to get back to hacking.
Food-p?" "Yeah, let's fuel up." "Time for a great-wall!" See also oriental food....
Full Monty n. See monty, sense 2.
fum n. [XEROX PARC] At PARC, often the third of the standard metasyntactic variables (after foo and bar).
Competes with baz, which is more common outside PARC....
functino n. [uncommon, U.K.; originally a serendipitous typo in 1994] A pointer to a function in C and C++.
By association with sub-atomic particles such as the neutrino, it accurately co...
funky adj. Said of something that functions, but in a slightly strange, klugey way.
It does the job and would be difficult to change, so its obvious non-optimality is left alone....

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