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• hamster n. 1. [Fairchild] A particularly slick little piece of code that does one thing well
  a small, self-contained hack. The image is of a hamster happily spinning its exercise wheel....
• at belt: n. A cable tie, esp. the sawtoothed, self-locking plastic kind that you can remove only by cutting (as opposed to a random twist of wire or a twist tie or one of those humongous metal clip frobs).
  Small cable ties are `mouse belts'. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• The wheel's spinning but the hamster's dead.
• cray: /kray/ n. 1. (properly, capitalized) One of the line of supercomputers designed by Cray Research.
  2. Any supercomputer at all. 3. The {canonical} {number-crunching} machine....
• display hack: n. A program with the same approximate purpose as a kaleidoscope
  o make pretty pictures. Famous display hacks include {munching squares}, {smoking clover}, the BSD UNIX `rain(6)' program, `worms(6)' on miscellaneous UNIXes, and the {X} `kaleid(1)' program....
• copper: n. Conventional electron-carrying network cable with a core conductor of copper -- or aluminum!
  Opposed to {light pipe} or, say, a short-range microwave link. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• at belt n. A cable tie, esp. the sawtoothed, self-locking plastic kind that you can remove only by cutting (as opposed to a random twist of wire or a twist tie or one of those humongous metal clip frobs).
  Small cable ties are `mouse belts'....
• hot spot: n. 1. [primarily used by C/UNIX programmers, but spreading] It is received wisdom that in most programs, less than 10% of the code eats 90% of the execution time
  if one were to graph instruction visits versus code addresses, one would typically see a few huge spikes amidst a lot of low-level noise....
• wizard: n. 1. A person who knows how a complex piece of software or hardware works (that is, who {grok}s it)
  esp. someone who can find and fix bugs quickly in an emergency....