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• dogwash /dog'wosh/ [From a quip in the `urgency' field of a very optional software change request, ca.
  1982. It was something like "Urgency: Wash your dog first"....
• 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....
• phase: 1. n. The offset of one's waking-sleeping schedule with respect to the standard 24-hour cycle
  a useful concept among people who often work at night and/or according to no fixed schedule....
• phase 1. n. The offset of one's waking-sleeping schedule with respect to the standard 24-hour cycle
  a useful concept among people who often work at night and/or according to no fixed schedule....
• Brooks's Law: prov. "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later" -- a result of the fact that the expected advantage from splitting work among N programmers is O(N) (that i
  proportional to N), but the complexity and communications cost associated with coordinating and then merging their work is O(N^2) (that is, proportional to the square of N)....
• DEChead: /dek'hed/ n. 1. A {DEC} {field servoid}. Not flattering.
  2. [from `deadhead'] A Grateful Dead fan working at DEC. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• interrupt: 1. [techspeak] n. On a computer, an event that interrupts normal processing and temporarily diverts flow-of-control through an "interrupt handler" routine.
  See also {trap}. 2. interj. A request for attention from a hacker....
• NAK: /nak/ [from the ASCII mnemonic for 0010101] interj.
  1. On-line joke answer to {ACK}?: "I'm not here....
• PDP-10: [Programmed Data Processor model 10] n. The machine that made timesharing real.
  It looms large in hacker folklore because of its adoption in the mid-1970s by many university computing facilities and research labs, including the MIT AI Lab, Stanford, and CMU....