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dike
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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vt. To remove or disable a portion of something, as a wire from a computer
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or a subroutine from a program. A standard slogan is When in doubt, dike it
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out. (The implication is that it is usually more effective to attack
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software problems by reducing complexity than by increasing it.) The word
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dikes is widely used to mean diagonal cutters , a kind of wire cutter. To
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dike something out means to use such cutters to remove something. Indeed,
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the TMRC Dictionary defined dike as to attack with dikes. Among hackers this
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term has been metaphorically extended to informational objects such as
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sections of code.
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