- GROVEL
- v. To work interminably and without apparent progress. Often
used with "over". "The compiler grovelled over my code." Compare
GRIND and CRUNCH. Emphatic form: GROVEL OBSCENELY.
- GRUNGY
- adj. Incredibly dirty or grubby. Anything which has been
washed within the last year is not really grungy. Also used
metaphorically; hence some programs (especially crocks) can be
described as grungy.
- GUBBISH
- [a portmanteau of "garbage" and "rubbish"?] n. Garbage; crap;
nonsense. "What is all this gubbish?"
- GUN
- [from the GUN command on ITS] v. To forcibly terminate a program
or job (computer, not career). "Some idiot left a background
process running soaking up half the cycles, so I gunned it."
- HACK
- n.1.Originally a quick job that produces what is needed, but
not well.
2. The result of that job.
3. NEAT HACK: A clever
technique. Also, a brilliant practical joke, where neatness is
correlated with cleverness, harmlessness, and surprise value.
Example: the Caltech Rose Bowl card display switch circa 1961.
4. REAL HACK: A crock (occasionally affectionate).
v. 5. With "together", to throw something together so it will work.
6.To bear emotionally or physically. "I can't hack this heat!"
7.To work on something (typically a program). In specific sense:
"What are you doing?" "I'm hacking TECO." In general sense: "What
do you do around here?" "I hack TECO." (The former is
time-immediate, the latter time-extended.) More generally, "I hack
x" is roughly equivalent to "x is my bag". "I hack solid-state
physics."
8.To pull a prank on. See definition 3 and HACKER (def
#6).
9.v.i. To waste time (as opposed to TOOL). "Watcha up to?"
"Oh, just hacking."
10. HACK UP (ON): To hack, but generally
implies that the result is meanings 1-2.
11. HACK VALUE: Term used
as the reason or motivation for expending effort toward a seemingly
useless goal, the point being that the accomplished goal is a hack.
For example, MacLISP has code to read and print roman numerals,
which was installed purely for hack value.
HAPPY HACKING: A farewell. HOW'S HACKING?: A friendly greeting
among hackers. HACK HACK: A somewhat pointless but friendly
comment, often used as a temporary farewell.
[The word HACK doesn't really have 69 different meanings. In fact,
HACK has only one meaning, an extremely subtle and profound one
which defies articulation. Which connotation a given HACK-token
has depends in similarly profound ways on the context. Similar
comments apply to a couple other hacker jargon items, most notably
RANDOM. - Agre]
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