- HACKER
- [originally, someone who makes furniture with an axe] n.
1. A
person who enjoys learning the details of programming systems and
how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users who
prefer to learn only the minimum necessary.
2. One who programs
enthusiastically, or who enjoys programming rather than just
theorizing about programming.
3. A person capable of appreciating
hack value (q.v.).
4. A person who is good at programming quickly.
Not everything a hacker produces is a hack.
5. An expert at a
particular program, or one who frequently does work using it or on
it; example: "A SAIL hacker". (Definitions 1 to 5 are correlated,
and people who fit them congregate.)
6. A malicious or inquisitive
meddler who tries to discover information by poking around. Hence
"password hacker", "network hacker".
- HACKISH
- adj. Being or involving a hack. HACKISHNESS n.
- HAIR
- n. The complications which make something hairy. "Decoding TECO
commands requires a certain amount of hair." Often seen in the
phrase INFINITE HAIR, which connotes extreme complexity.
- HAIRY
- adj.1.Overly complicated. "DWIM is incredibly hairy."
2.Incomprehensible. "DWIM is incredibly hairy."
3. Of people,
high-powered, authoritative, rare, expert, and/or incomprehensible.
Hard to explain except in context: "He knows this hairy lawyer who
says there's nothing to worry about."
- HAKMEM
- n. MIT AI Memo 239 (February 1972). A collection of neat
mathematical and programming hacks contributed by many people
at MIT and elsewhere.
- HANDWAVE
- 1.v. To gloss over a complex point; to distract a listener;
to support a (possibly actually valid) point with blatantly faulty
logic.
2.n. The act of handwaving. "Boy, what a handwave!" The
use of this word is often accompanied by gestures: both hands up,
palms forward, swinging the hands in a vertical plane pivoting at
the elbows and/or shoulders (depending on the magnitude of the
handwave); alternatively, holding the forearms still while rotating
the hands at the wrist to make them flutter. In context, the
gestures alone can suffice as a remark.
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