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• clean 1. adj. Used of hardware or software desig
  implies `elegance in the small', that is, a design or implementation that may not hold any surprises but does things in a way that is reasonably intuitive and relatively easy to comprehend from the outside....
• GC: /G-C/ [from LISP terminology; `Garbage Collect'] 1.
  vt. To clean up and throw away useless things. "I think I'll GC the top of my desk today....
• under the hood: [hot-rodder talk] prep. 1. Used to introduce the underlying implementation of a product (hardware, software, or idea).
  Implies that the implementation is not intuitively obvious from the appearance, but the speaker is about to enable the listener to {grok} it....
• bottom-up implementation: n. Hackish opposite of the techspeak term `top-down design'.
  It is now received wisdom in most programming cultures that it is best to design from higher levels of abstraction down to lower, specifying sequences of action in increasing detail until you get to actual code....
• punt: [from the punch line of an old joke referring to American football
  Drop back 15 yards and punt!"] v. 1. To give up, typically without any intention of retrying....
• GFR: /G-F-R/ vt. [ITS: from `Grim File Reaper', an ITS and LISP Machine utility] To remove a file or files according to some program-automated or semi-automatic manual procedure
  especially one designed to reclaim mass storage space or reduce name-space clutter (the original GFR actually moved files to tape)....
• Stone Age: n., adj. 1. In computer folklore, an ill-defined period from ENIAC (ca.
  1943) to the mid-1950s; the great age of electromechanical {dinosaur}s....
• zorch: /zorch/ 1. [TMRC] v. To attack with an inverse heat sink.
  2. [TMRC] v. To travel, with v approaching c [that is, with velocity approaching lightspeed --- ESR]....
• fascist: adj. 1. Said of a computer system with excessive or annoying security barriers, usage limits, or access policies.
  The implication is that said policies are preventing hackers from getting interesting work done....