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• memetics /me-met'iks/ n. [from meme] The study of memes.
  As of early 1999, this is still an extremely informal and speculative endeavor, though the first steps towards at least statistical rigor have been made by H....
• meme: /meem/ [coined by analogy with `gene', by Richard Dawkins] n.
  An idea considered as a {replicator}, esp. with the connotation that memes parasitize people into propagating them much as viruses do....
• foo /foo/ 1. interj. Term of disgust. 2. [very common] Used very generally as a sample name for absolutely anything, esp.
  programs and files (esp. scratch files). 3. First on the standard list of metasyntactic variables used in syntax examples....
• one-liner wars: n. A game popular among hackers who code in the language APL (see {write-only language} and {line noise}).
  The objective is to see who can code the most interesting and/or useful routine in one line of operators chosen from APL's exceedingly {hairy} primitive set....
• Yet Another: adj. [From UNIX's `yacc(1)', `Yet Another Compiler-Compiler', a LALR parser generator] 1.
  Of your own work: A humorous allusion often used in titles to acknowledge that the topic is not original, though the content is....
• zeroth: /zee'rohth/ adj. First. Among software designers, comes from C's and LISP's 0-based indexing of arrays.
  Hardware people also tend to start counting at 0 instead of 1...
• oriental food:: n. Hackers display an intense tropism towards oriental cuisine, especially Chinese, and especially of the spicier varieties such as Szechuan and Hunan.
  This phenomenon (which has also been observed in subcultures that overlap heavily with hackerdom, most notably science-fiction fandom) has never been satisfactorily explained, but is sufficiently intense that one can assume the target of a hackish dinner expedition to be the best local Chinese place and be right at least three times out of four....
• brain dump: n. The act of telling someone everything one knows about a particular topic or project.
  Typically used when someone is going to let a new party maintain a piece of code....
• hacker n. [originally, someone who makes furniture with an axe] 1.
  A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary....