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• fool n. As used by hackers, specifically describes a person who habitually reasons from obviously or demonstrably incorrect premises and cannot be persuaded by evidence to do otherwise
  it is not generally used in its other senses, i....
• lots of MIPS but no I/O: adj. Used to describe a person who is technically brilliant but can't seem to communicate with human beings effectively.
  Technically it describes a machine that has lots of processing power but is bottlenecked on input-output (in 1991, the IBM Rios, a....
• on-optimal solution: n. (also `sub-optimal solution') An astoundingly stupid way to do something.
  This term is generally used in deadpan sarcasm, as its impact is greatest when the person speaking looks completely serious....
• DAU: /dow/ [German Fidonet] n. German acronym for D"ummster Anzunehmender User (stupidest imaginable user).
  From the engineering-slang GAU for Gr"osster Anzunehmender Unfall, worst foreseeable accident, esp....
• wank: /wangk/ [Columbia University: prob. by mutation from Commonwealth slang v.
  `wank', to masturbate] n.,v. Used much as {hack} is elsewhere, as a noun denoting a clever technique or person or the result of such cleverness....
• N: /N/ quant. 1. A large and indeterminate number of objec
  "There were N bugs in that crock!" Also used in its original sense of a variable name...
• ig block: /sig blok/ [UNIX; often written `.sig' there] n.
  Short for `signature', used specifically to refer to the electronic signature block that most UNIX mail- and news-posting software will {automagically} append to outgoing mail and news....
• kill file: [USENET] n. (alt. `KILL file') Per-user file(s) used by some {USENET} reading programs (originally Larry Wall's `rn(1)') to discard summarily (without presenting for reading) articles matching some particularly uninteresting (or unwanted) patterns of subjec
  author, or other header lines. Thus to add a person (or subject) to one's kill file is to arrange for that person to be ignored by one's newsreader in future....
• multitask: n. Often used of humans in the same meaning it has for computers, to describe a person doing several things at once (but see {thrash}).
  The term `multiplex', from communications technology (meaning to handle more than one channel at the same time), is used similarly....