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• buried treasure n. A surprising piece of code found in some program.
  While usually not wrong, it tends to vary from crufty to bletcherous, and has lain undiscovered only because it was functionally correct, however horrible it is....
• Otto: I found something! [pulls a briefcase from the ground] Wiggum
  [opens it] It's just a piece of paper. Homer: It's mine!...
• TECO /tee'koh/ n.,v. obs. 1. [originally an acronym for `[paper] Tape Editor and COrrector'
  later, `Text Editor and COrrector'] n. A text editor developed at MIT and modified by just about everybody....
• Somewhere nearby is colossal cave, where others have found fortunes in treasure treasure and gold, though it is rumored that some who enter are never seen seen again.
  Magic is said to work in the cave. I will be your eyes and and hands....
• I treasure this strange combination found in very few perso
  a fierce desire for life as well as a lucid perception of the ultimate futility of the quest....
• Abe: 61... 62... 63... Oh no! 63! He's out of air! I've sent my only grandson to a watery gra.
  .. 64! He's found the treasure! I'm rich!...
• gweep: /gweep/ [WPI] 1. v. To {hack}, usually at night.
  At WPI, from 1977 onwards, one who gweeped coud often be found at the College Computing Center punching cards or crashing the {PDP-10} or, later, the DEC-20....
• livelock: /li:v'lok/ n. A situation in which some critical stage of a task is unable to finish because its clients perpetually create more work for it to do after they have been serviced but before it can clear its queue.
  Differs from {deadlock} in that the process is not blocked or waiting for anything, but has a virtually infinite amount of work to do and can never catch up....
• one-line fix: n. Used (often sarcastically) of a change to a program that is thought to be trivial or insignificant right up to the moment it crashes the system.
  Usually `cured' by another one-line fix. See also {I didn't change anything!...