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heatseeker n. [IBM] A customer who can be relied upon to buy, without fail, the latest version of an existing product (not quite the same as a member of the lunatic fringe).
A 1993 exampl...
heavy metal n. [Cambridge] Syn. big iron.
heavy wizardry n. Code or designs that trade on a particularly intimate knowledge or experience of a particular operating system or language or complex application interface.
Distinguishe...
heavyweight adj. [common] High-overhead; baroque
code-intensive; featureful, but costly. Esp....
heisenbug /hi:'zen-buhg/ n. [from Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle in quantum physics] A bug that disappears or alters its behavior when one attempts to probe or isolate it.
(This usage...
Helen Keller mode n. 1. State of a hardware or software system that is deaf, dumb, and blind, i.
e., accepting no input and generating no output, usually due to an infinite loop or some other ...
hello sailor! interj. Occasional West Coast equivalent of hello world
hello, wall! excl. See wall.
hello world interj. 1. The canonical minimal test message in the C/Unix universe.
2. Any of the minimal programs that emit this message....
hex n. 1. Short for hexadecimal, base 16. 2. A 6-pack of anything (compare quad, sense 2).

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