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• hotgun debugging n. The software equivalent of Easter egging
  he making of relatively undirected changes to the hope that a bug will be perturbed out of existence....
• Easter egging: [IBM] n. The act of replacing unrelated components more or less at random in hopes that a malfunction will go away.
  Hackers consider this the normal operating mode of {field circus} techs and do not love them for it....
• critical mass: n. In physics, the minimum amount of fissionable material required to sustain a chain reaction.
  Of a software product, describes a condition of the software such that fixing one bug introduces one plus {epsilon} bugs....
• freeze: v. To lock an evolving software distribution or document against changes so it can be released with some hope of stability.
  Carries the strong implication that the item in question will `unfreeze' at some future date....
• Easter egging n. [IBM] The act of replacing unrelated components more or less at random in hopes that a malfunction will go away.
  Hackers consider this the normal operating mode of field circus techs and do not love them for it....
• weak: vt. 1. To change slightly, usually in reference to a value.
  Also used synonymously with {twiddle}. If a program is almost correct, rather than figure out the precise problem you might just keep tweaking it until it works....
• eality check: n. 1. The simplest kind of test of software or hardware
  doing the equivalent of asking it what 2 + 2 is and seeing if you get 4....
• crew: [MIT] n. A {lose}, usually in software. Especially used for user-visible misbehavior caused by a bug or misfeature.
  This use has become quite widespread outside MIT. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• widdle: n. 1. Tilde (ASCII 1111110, `~'). Also called `squiggle', `sqiggle' (sic --- pronounced /skig'l/), and `twaddle', but twiddle is the most common term.
  2. A small and insignificant change to a program....