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rat dance
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n. [From the Dilbert comic strip of November 14, 1995] A hacking run that
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produces results which, while superficially coherent, have little or nothing
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to do with its original objectives. There are strong connotations that the
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coding process and the objectives themselves were pretty random. (In the
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original comic strip, the Ratbert is invited to dance on Dilbert's keyboard
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in order to produce bugs for him to fix, and authors a Web browser instead.)
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Compare Infinite-Monkey Theorem. This term seems to have become widely
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recognized quite rapidly after the original strip, a fact which testifies to
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Dilbert's huge popularity among hackers. All too many find the perverse
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incentives and Kafkaesque atmosphere of Dilbert's mythical workplace
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reflective of their own experiences.
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