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hair n. [back-formation from hairy] The complications that make something hairy.
Decoding TECO commands requires a certain amount of hair....
hairball n. 1. [Fidonet] A large batch of messages that a store-and-forward network is failing to forward when it should.
Often used in the phrase "Fido coughed up a hairball today", mea...
hairy adj. 1. Annoyingly complicated. "DWIM is incredibly hairy.
2. Incomprehensible. "DWIM is incredibly hairy....
HAKMEM /hak'mem/ n. MIT AI Memo 239 (February 1972).
A legendary collection of neat mathematical and programming hacks contributed by many people at MIT and elsewhere....
hakspek /hak'speek/ n. A shorthand method of spelling found on many British academic bulletin boards and talker systems.
Syllables and whole single ASCII characters the names of which are ph...
Halloween Documents n. A pair of Microsoft internal strategy memoranda leaked to ESR in late 1998 that confirmed everybody's paranoia about the current Evil Empire.
These documents pra...
hammer vt. Commonwealth hackish syn. for bang on.
hamster n. 1. [Fairchild] A particularly slick little piece of code that does one thing well
a small, self-contained hack. The image is of a hamster happily spinning its exercise wheel....
HAND // [Usenet: very common] Abbreviation: Have A Nice Day.
Typically used to close a Usenet posting, but also used to informally close email...
hand cruft vt. [pun on `hand craft'] See cruft, sense 3.

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