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• juggling eggs vi. Keeping a lot of state in your head while modifying a program.
  Don't bother me now, I'm juggling eggs", means that an interrupt is likely to result in the program's being scrambled....
• on the gripping hand In the progression that starts "On the one hand.
  .." and continues "On the other hand..." mainstream English may add "on the third hand....
• hack mode n. 1. What one is in when hacking, of course.
  2. More specifically, a Zen-like state of total focus on The Problem that may be achieved when one is hacking (this is why every good hacker is part mystic)....
• ampoline: n. An incredibly {hairy} technique, found in some {HLL} and program-overlay implementations (e.
  g., on the Macintosh), that involves on-the-fly generation of small executable (and, likely as not, self-modifying) code objects to do indirection between code sections....
• priority interrupt: [from the hardware term] n. Describes any stimulus compelling enough to yank one right out of {hack mode}.
  Classically used to describe being dragged away by an {SO} for immediate sex, but may also refer to more mundane interruptions such as a fire alarm going off in the near vicinity....
• geek out: vi. To temporarily enter techno-nerd mode while in a non-hackish context, for example at parties held near computer equipment.
  Especially used when you need to do or say something highly technical and don't have time to explai...
• 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 excursion into {deep space}....
• SMOP: /S-M-O-P/ [Simple (or Small) Matter of Programming] n.
  1. A piece of code, not yet written, whose anticipated length is significantly greater than its complexity....
• busy-wait: vi. Used of human behavior, conveys that the subject is busy waiting for someone or something
  intends to move instantly as soon as it shows up, and thus cannot do anything else at the moment....