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under the hood
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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adj. [hot-rodder talk] 1. Used to introduce the underlying implementation of
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a product (hardware, software, or idea). Implies that the implementation is
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not intuitively obvious from the appearance, but the speaker is about to
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enable the listener to grok it. Let's now look under the hood to see how.
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... 2. Can also imply that the implementation is much simpler than the
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appearance would indicate: Under the hood, we are just fork/execing the
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shell. 3.
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