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hand-hacking n. 1. [rare] The practice of translating hot spots from an HLL into hand-tuned assembler, as opposed to trying to coerce the compiler into generating better code.
Both the te...
hand-roll v. [from obs.
handle n. 1. [from CB slang] An electronic pseudonym
a `nom de guerre' intended to conceal the user's true identity....
handshaking n. [very common] Hardware or software activity designed to start or keep two machines or programs in synchronization as they do protocol.
Often applied to human activity; thu...
handwave [poss. from gestures characteristic of stage magicians] 1.
v. To gloss over a complex point; to distract a listene...
hang v. 1. [very common] To wait for an event that will never occur.
The system is hanging because it can't read from the crashed drive"....
Hanlon's Razor prov. A corollary of Finagle's Law, similar to Occam's Razor, that reads "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
The derivation of...
happily adv.
haque /hak/ n. [Usenet] Variant spelling of hack, used only for the noun form and connoting an elegant hack.
hat is a hack in sense 2....
hard boot n. See boot.

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