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• quick-and-dirty adj. [common] Describes a crock put together under time or user pressure.
  Used esp. when you want to convey that you think the fast way might lead to trouble further down the road....
• Saturday-night special: [from police slang for a cheap handgun] n.
  A {quick-and-dirty} program or feature kluged together during off hours, under a deadline, and in response to pressure from a {salescritter}....
• hack up: vt. To {hack}, but generally implies that the result is a hack in sense 1 (a quick hack).
  Contrast this with {hack on}. To `hack up on' implies a {quick-and-dirty} modification to an existing system....
• plumbing: [UNIX] n. Term used for {shell} code, so called because of the prevalence of `pipelines' that feed the output of one program to the input of another.
  Under UNIX, user utilities can often be implemented or at least prototyped by a suitable collection of pipelines and temp-file grinding encapsulated in a shell scrip...
• fried: adj. 1. Non-working due to hardware failure
  burnt out. Especially used of hardware brought down by a `power glitch' (see {glitch}), {drop-outs}, a short, or some other electrical event....
• kluge up: vt. To lash together a quick hack to perform a task
  his is milder than {cruft together} and has some of the connotations of {hack up} (note, however, that the construction `kluge on' corresponding to {hack on} is never used)....
• AI-complete: /A-I k*m-pleet'/ [MIT, Stanford: by analogy with `NP-complete' (see {NP-})] adj.
  Used to describe problems or subproblems in AI, to indicate that the solution presupposes a solution to the `strong AI problem' (that is, the synthesis of a human-level intelligence)....
• MFTL /M-F-T-L/ [abbreviation: `My Favorite Toy Language'] 1.
  adj. Describes a talk on a programming language design that is heavy on the syntax (with lots of BNF), sometimes even talks about semantics (e....
• WYSIAYG: /wiz'ee-ayg/ adj. Describes a user interface under which "What You See Is *All* You Ge
  an unhappy variant of {WYSIWYG}. Visual, `point-and-shoot'-style interfaces tend to have easy initial learning curves, but also to lack depth...