-This file last generated Tuesday, 16 October 2018 08:40PM UTC +This file last generated Tuesday, 16 October 2018 08:58PM UTC
/HCF/ , n. Mnemonic for Halt and Catch Fire , any of several undocumented and semi-mythical machine instructions with destructive side-effects, supposedly included for test purposes on several well-known architectures going as far back as the IBM 360. The MC6800 microprocessor was the first for which an HCF opcode became widely known. This instruction caused the processor to toggle a subset of the bus lines as rapidly as it could; in some configurations this could actually cause lines to burn up. Compare killer poke.
-- See ha ha only serious. -
-- See ha ha only serious. -
/HLL/ , n. [High-Level Language (as opposed to assembler)] Found primarily in email and news rather than speech. Rarely, the variants VHLL and MLL are found. VHLL stands for Very-High-Level Language and is used to describe a bondage-and-discipline language that the speaker happens to like; Prolog and Backus's FP are often called VHLLs. MLL stands for Medium-Level Language and is sometimes used half-jokingly to describe C , alluding to its structured-assembler image. See also languages of choice. @@ -3136,7 +3128,7 @@ This file last generated Tuesday, 16 October 2018 08:40PM UTC
- adj. Describes a primitive programming style, one in which the programmer relies on the computer's processing power instead of using his or her own intelligence to simplify the problem, often ignoring problems of scale and applying naive methods suited to small problems directly to large ones. The term can also be used in reference to programming style: brute-force programs are written in a heavyhanded, tedious way, full of repetition and devoid of any elegance or useful abstraction (see also brute force and ignorance ). The canonical example of a brute-force algorithm is associated with the traveling salesman problem (TSP), a classical NP- hard problem: Suppose a person is in, say, Boston, and wishes to drive to N other cities. In what order should the cities be visited in order to minimize the distance travelled? The brute-force method is to simply generate all possible routes and compare the distances; while guaranteed to work and simple to implement, this algorithm is clearly very stupid in that it considers even obviously absurd routes (like going from Boston to Houston via San Francisco and New York, in that order). For very small N it works well, but it rapidly becomes absurdly inefficient when N increases (for N = 15 , there are already 1,307,674,368,000 possible routes to consider, and for N = 1000 well, see bignum ). Sometimes, unfortunately, there is no better general solution than brute force. See also NP- and rubber-hose cryptanalysis. A more simple-minded example of brute-force programming is finding the smallest number in a large list by first using an existing program to sort the list in ascending order, and then picking the first number off the front. Whether brute-force programming should actually be considered stupid or not depends on the context; if the problem is not terribly big, the extra CPU time spent on a brute-force solution may cost less than the programmer time it would take to develop a more intelligent algorithm. Additionally, a more intelligent algorithm may imply more long-term complexity cost and bug-chasing than are justified by the speed improvement. Ken Thompson, co-inventor of Unix, is reported to have uttered the epigram When in doubt, use brute force. He probably intended this as a ha ha only serious , but the original Unix kernel's preference for simple, robust, and portable algorithms over brittle smart ones does seem to have been a significant factor in the success of that OS. Like so many other tradeoffs in software design, the choice between brute force and complex, finely-tuned cleverness is often a difficult one that requires both engineering savvy and delicate esthetic judgment. + adj. Describes a primitive programming style, one in which the programmer relies on the computer's processing power instead of using his or her own intelligence to simplify the problem, often ignoring problems of scale and applying naive methods suited to small problems directly to large ones. The term can also be used in reference to programming style: brute-force programs are written in a heavyhanded, tedious way, full of repetition and devoid of any elegance or useful abstraction (see also brute force and ignorance ). The canonical example of a brute-force algorithm is associated with the traveling salesman problem (TSP), a classical NP- hard problem: Suppose a person is in, say, Boston, and wishes to drive to N other cities. In what order should the cities be visited in order to minimize the distance travelled? The brute-force method is to simply generate all possible routes and compare the distances; while guaranteed to work and simple to implement, this algorithm is clearly very stupid in that it considers even obviously absurd routes (like going from Boston to Houston via San Francisco and New York, in that order). For very small N it works well, but it rapidly becomes absurdly inefficient when N increases (for N = 15 , there are already 1,307,674,368,000 possible routes to consider, and for N = 1000 well, see bignum ). Sometimes, unfortunately, there is no better general solution than brute force. See also NP- and rubber-hose cryptanalysis. A more simple-minded example of brute-force programming is finding the smallest number in a large list by first using an existing program to sort the list in ascending order, and then picking the first number off the front. Whether brute-force programming should actually be considered stupid or not depends on the context; if the problem is not terribly big, the extra CPU time spent on a brute-force solution may cost less than the programmer time it would take to develop a more intelligent algorithm. Additionally, a more intelligent algorithm may imply more long-term complexity cost and bug-chasing than are justified by the speed improvement. Ken Thompson, co-inventor of Unix, is reported to have uttered the epigram When in doubt, use brute force. The original Unix kernel's preference for simple, robust, and portable algorithms over brittle smart ones does seem to have been a significant factor in the success of that OS. Like so many other tradeoffs in software design, the choice between brute force and complex, finely-tuned cleverness is often a difficult one that requires both engineering savvy and delicate esthetic judgment.
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2. vt. To send electronic mail. Oddly enough, the word emailed is actually listed in the OED; it means embossed (with a raised pattern) or perh. arranged in a net or open work. A use from 1480 is given. The word is probably derived from French maill (enameled) and related to Old French emmaillere (network). A French correspondent tells us that in modern French, email is a hard enamel obtained by heating special paints in a furnace; an emailleur (no final e) is a craftsman who makes email (he generally paints some objects (like, say, jewelry) and cooks them in a furnace). There are numerous spelling variants of this word. In Internet traffic up to 1995, email predominates, e-mail runs a not-too-distant second, and E-mail and Email are a distant third and fourth.
- /eemohtikon/ , n. [common] An ASCII glyph used to indicate an emotional state in email or news. Although originally intended mostly as jokes, emoticons (or some other explicit humor indication) are virtually required under certain circumstances in high-volume text-only communication forums such as Usenet; the lack of verbal and visual cues can otherwise cause what were intended to be humorous, sarcastic, ironic, or otherwise non-100%-serious comments to be badly misinterpreted (not always even by newbie s), resulting in arguments and flame war s. Hundreds of emoticons have been proposed, but only a few are in common use. These include: :-) smiley face (for humor, laughter, friendliness, occasionally sarcasm) :-( frowney face (for sadness, anger, or upset) ;-) half-smiley ( ha ha only serious ); also known as semi-smiley or winkey face. :-/ wry face (These may become more comprehensible if you tilt your head sideways, to the left.) The first two listed are by far the most frequently encountered. Hyphenless forms of them are common on CompuServe, GEnie, and BIX; see also bixie. On Usenet , smiley is often used as a generic term synonymous with emoticon , as well as specifically for the happy-face emoticon. The invention of the original smiley and frowney emoticons is generally credited to Scott Fahlman at CMU in 1982. He later wrote: I wish I had saved the original post, or at least recorded the date for posterity, but I had no idea that I was starting something that would soon pollute all the world's communication channels. In September 2002 the original post was recovered. There is a rival claim by one Kevin McKenzie, who seems to have proposed the smiley on the MsgGroup mailing list, April 12 1979. It seems likely these two inventions were independent. Users of the PLATO educational system report using emoticons composed from overlaid dot-matrix graphics in the 1970s. + /eemohtikon/ , n. [common] An ASCII glyph used to indicate an emotional state in email or news. Although originally intended mostly as jokes, emoticons (or some other explicit humor indication) are virtually required under certain circumstances in high-volume text-only communication such as chat systems. The original invention of emoticons happened on the PLATO IV education system in 1972. Also see emoji.
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2. [very common] Used very generally as a sample name for absolutely anything, esp. programs and files (esp. scratch files).
-3. First on the standard list of metasyntactic variables used in syntax examples. See also bar , baz , qux , quux , garply , waldo , fred , plugh , xyzzy , thud. When foo is used in connection with bar it has generally traced to the WWII-era Army slang acronym FUBAR ( Fucked Up Beyond All Repair or Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition ), later modified to foobar. Early versions of the Jargon File interpreted this change as a post-war bowdlerization, but it it now seems more likely that FUBAR was itself a derivative of foo perhaps influenced by German furchtbar (terrible) foobar may actually have been the original form. For, it seems, the word foo itself had an immediate prewar history in comic strips and cartoons. The earliest documented uses were in the Smokey Stover comic strip published from about 1930 to about 1952. Bill Holman, the author of the strip, filled it with odd jokes and personal contrivances, including other nonsense phrases such as Notary Sojac and 1506 nix nix. The word foo frequently appeared on license plates of cars, in nonsense sayings in the background of some frames (such as He who foos last foos best or Many smoke but foo men chew ), and Holman had Smokey say Where there's foo, there's fire. According to the Warner Brothers Cartoon Companion Holman claimed to have found the word foo on the bottom of a Chinese figurine. This is plausible; Chinese statuettes often have apotropaic inscriptions, and this one was almost certainly the Mandarin Chinese word fu (sometimes transliterated foo ), which can mean happiness or prosperity when spoken with the rising tone (the lion-dog guardians flanking the steps of many Chinese restaurants are properly called fu dogs ). English speakers' reception of Holman's foo nonsense word was undoubtedly influenced by Yiddish feh and English fooey and fool. Holman's strip featured a firetruck called the Foomobile that rode on two wheels. The comic strip was tremendously popular in the late 1930s, and legend has it that a manufacturer in Indiana even produced an operable version of Holman's Foomobile. According to the Encyclopedia of American Comics, Foo fever swept the U.S., finding its way into popular songs and generating over 500 Foo Clubs. The fad left foo references embedded in popular culture (including a couple of appearances in Warner Brothers cartoons of 1938-39; notably in Robert Clampett's Daffy Doc of 1938, in which a very early version of Daffy Duck holds up a sign saying SILENCE IS FOO! ) When the fad faded, the origin of foo was forgotten. One place foo is known to have remained live is in the U.S. military during the WWII years. In 1944-45, the term foo fighters was in use by radar operators for the kind of mysterious or spurious trace that would later be called a UFO (the older term resurfaced in popular American usage in 1995 via the name of one of the better grunge-rock bands). Because informants connected the term directly to the Smokey Stover strip, the folk etymology that connects it to French feu (fire) can be gently dismissed. The U.S. and British militaries frequently swapped slang terms during the war (see kluge and kludge for another important example) Period sources reported that FOO became a semi-legendary subject of WWII British-army graffiti more or less equivalent to the American Kilroy. Where British troops went, the graffito FOO was here or something similar showed up. Several slang dictionaries aver that FOO probably came from Forward Observation Officer, but this (like the contemporaneous FUBAR ) was probably a backronym. Forty years later, Paul Dickson's excellent book Words (Dell, 1982, ISBN 0-440-52260-7) traced Foo to an unspecified British naval magazine in 1946, quoting as follows: Mr. Foo is a mysterious Second World War product, gifted with bitter omniscience and sarcasm. Earlier versions of this entry suggested the possibility that hacker usage actually sprang from FOO, Lampoons and Parody , the title of a comic book first issued in September 1958, a joint project of Charles and Robert Crumb. Though Robert Crumb (then in his mid-teens) later became one of the most important and influential artists in underground comics, this venture was hardly a success; indeed, the brothers later burned most of the existing copies in disgust. The title FOO was featured in large letters on the front cover. However, very few copies of this comic actually circulated, and students of Crumb's oeuvre have established that this title was a reference to the earlier Smokey Stover comics. The Crumbs may also have been influenced by a short-lived Canadian parody magazine named Foo published in 1951-52. An old-time member reports that in the 1959 Dictionary of the TMRC Language , compiled at TMRC , there was an entry that went something like this: FOO: The first syllable of the sacred chant phrase FOO MANE PADME HUM. Our first obligation is to keep the foo counters turning. (For more about the legendary foo counters, see TMRC. ) This definition used Bill Holman's nonsense word, then only two decades old and demonstrably still live in popular culture and slang, to a ha ha only serious analogy with esoteric Tibetan Buddhism. Today's hackers would find it difficult to resist elaborating a joke like that, and it is not likely 1959's were any less susceptible. Almost the entire staff of what later became the MIT AI Lab was involved with TMRC, and the word spread from there.
+3. First on the standard list of metasyntactic variables used in syntax examples. See also bar , baz , qux , quux , garply , waldo , fred , plugh , xyzzy , thud. When foo is used in connection with bar it has generally traced to the WWII-era Army slang acronym FUBAR ( Fucked Up Beyond All Repair or Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition ), later modified to foobar. Early versions of the Jargon File interpreted this change as a post-war bowdlerization, but it it now seems more likely that FUBAR was itself a derivative of foo perhaps influenced by German furchtbar (terrible) foobar may actually have been the original form. For, it seems, the word foo itself had an immediate prewar history in comic strips and cartoons. The earliest documented uses were in the Smokey Stover comic strip published from about 1930 to about 1952. Bill Holman, the author of the strip, filled it with odd jokes and personal contrivances, including other nonsense phrases such as Notary Sojac and 1506 nix nix. The word foo frequently appeared on license plates of cars, in nonsense sayings in the background of some frames (such as He who foos last foos best or Many smoke but foo men chew ), and Holman had Smokey say Where there's foo, there's fire. According to the Warner Brothers Cartoon Companion Holman claimed to have found the word foo on the bottom of a Chinese figurine. This is plausible; Chinese statuettes often have apotropaic inscriptions, and this one was almost certainly the Mandarin Chinese word fu (sometimes transliterated foo ), which can mean happiness or prosperity when spoken with the rising tone (the lion-dog guardians flanking the steps of many Chinese restaurants are properly called fu dogs ). English speakers' reception of Holman's foo nonsense word was undoubtedly influenced by Yiddish feh and English fooey and fool. Holman's strip featured a firetruck called the Foomobile that rode on two wheels. The comic strip was tremendously popular in the late 1930s, and legend has it that a manufacturer in Indiana even produced an operable version of Holman's Foomobile. According to the Encyclopedia of American Comics, Foo fever swept the U.S., finding its way into popular songs and generating over 500 Foo Clubs. The fad left foo references embedded in popular culture (including a couple of appearances in Warner Brothers cartoons of 1938-39; notably in Robert Clampett's Daffy Doc of 1938, in which a very early version of Daffy Duck holds up a sign saying SILENCE IS FOO! ) When the fad faded, the origin of foo was forgotten. One place foo is known to have remained live is in the U.S. military during the WWII years. In 1944-45, the term foo fighters was in use by radar operators for the kind of mysterious or spurious trace that would later be called a UFO (the older term resurfaced in popular American usage in 1995 via the name of one of the better grunge-rock bands). Because informants connected the term directly to the Smokey Stover strip, the folk etymology that connects it to French feu (fire) can be gently dismissed. The U.S. and British militaries frequently swapped slang terms during the war (see kluge and kludge for another important example) Period sources reported that FOO became a semi-legendary subject of WWII British-army graffiti more or less equivalent to the American Kilroy. Where British troops went, the graffito FOO was here or something similar showed up. Several slang dictionaries aver that FOO probably came from Forward Observation Officer, but this (like the contemporaneous FUBAR ) was probably a backronym. Forty years later, Paul Dickson's excellent book Words (Dell, 1982, ISBN 0-440-52260-7) traced Foo to an unspecified British naval magazine in 1946, quoting as follows: Mr. Foo is a mysterious Second World War product, gifted with bitter omniscience and sarcasm. Earlier versions of this entry suggested the possibility that hacker usage actually sprang from FOO, Lampoons and Parody , the title of a comic book first issued in September 1958, a joint project of Charles and Robert Crumb. Though Robert Crumb (then in his mid-teens) later became one of the most important and influential artists in underground comics, this venture was hardly a success; indeed, the brothers later burned most of the existing copies in disgust. The title FOO was featured in large letters on the front cover. However, very few copies of this comic actually circulated, and students of Crumb's oeuvre have established that this title was a reference to the earlier Smokey Stover comics. The Crumbs may also have been influenced by a short-lived Canadian parody magazine named Foo published in 1951-52. An old-time member reports that in the 1959 Dictionary of the TMRC Language , compiled at TMRC , there was an entry that went something like this: FOO: The first syllable of the sacred chant phrase FOO MANE PADME HUM. Our first obligation is to keep the foo counters turning. (For more about the legendary foo counters, see TMRC. ) Today's hackers would find it difficult to resist elaborating a joke like that, and it is not likely 1959's were any less susceptible. Almost the entire staff of what later became the MIT AI Lab was involved with TMRC, and the word spread from there.
n. [very common] Another widely used metasyntactic variable ; see foo for etymology. Probably originally propagated through DECsystem manuals by Digital Equipment Corporation ( DEC ) in 1960s and early 1970s; confirmed sightings there go back to 1972. Hackers do not generally use this to mean FUBAR in either the slang or jargon sense. See also Fred Foobar. In RFC1639, FOOBAR was made an abbreviation for FTP Operation Over Big Address Records , but this was an obvious backronym. It has been plausibly suggested that foobar spread among early computer engineers partly because of FUBAR and partly because foo bar parses in electronics techspeak as an inverted foo signal; if a digital signal is active low (so a negative or zero-voltage condition represents a 1 ) then a horizontal bar is commonly placed over the signal label. @@ -5502,10 +5494,6 @@ This file last generated Tuesday, 16 October 2018 08:40PM UTC
2. n. One who habitually gweeps in sense 1; a hacker. He's a hard-core gweep, mumbles code in his sleep. Around 1979 this was considered derogatory and not used in self-reference; it has since been proudly claimed in much the same way as geek.
- A phrase (often seen abbreviated as HHOS) that aptly captures the flavor of much hacker discourse. Applied especially to parodies, absurdities, and ironic jokes that are both intended and perceived to contain a possibly disquieting amount of truth, or truths that are constructed on in-joke and self-parody. This lexicon contains many examples of ha-ha-only-serious in both form and content. Indeed, the entirety of hacker culture is often perceived as ha-ha-only-serious by hackers themselves; to take it either too lightly or too seriously marks a person as an outsider, a wannabee, or in larval stage. For further enlightenment on this subject, consult any Zen master. See also hacker humor, and koan. -
1. n. Originally, a quick job that produces what is needed, but not well.
@@ -5589,7 +5577,7 @@ This file last generated Tuesday, 16 October 2018 08:40PM UTC5. A fondness for apparently mindless humor with subversive currents of intelligence in it for example, old Warner Brothers and Rocky Bullwinkle cartoons, the Marx brothers, the early B-52s, and Monty Python's Flying Circus. Humor that combines this trait with elements of high camp and slapstick is especially favored.
-6. References to the symbol-object antinomies and associated ideas in Zen Buddhism and (less often) Taoism. See has the X nature , Discordianism , zen , ha ha only serious , koan. See also filk , retrocomputing , and the Portrait of J. Random Hacker in Appendix B. If you have an itchy feeling that all six of these traits are really aspects of one thing that is incredibly difficult to talk about exactly, you are (a) correct and (b) responding like a hacker. These traits are also recognizable (though in a less marked form) throughout science-fiction fandom.
+6. References to the symbol-object antinomies and associated ideas in Zen Buddhism and (less often) Taoism. See has the X nature, Discordianism, zen, koan. See also filk , retrocomputing , and the Portrait of J. Random Hacker in Appendix B. If you have an itchy feeling that all six of these traits are really aspects of one thing that is incredibly difficult to talk about exactly, you are (a) correct and (b) responding like a hacker. These traits are also recognizable (though in a less marked form) throughout science-fiction fandom.
n. A social gathering of hackers at a single location in meatspace, typically lasting for no more than a few days. Unlike a conference or other meetup the main purpose of a hackfest is to make progress on software projects by producing code and/or documentation. @@ -8301,7 +8289,7 @@ This file last generated Tuesday, 16 October 2018 08:40PM UTC
- n. Another voluntary subculture having a very heavy overlap with hackerdom; most hackers read SF and/or fantasy fiction avidly, and many go to cons (SF conventions) or are involved in fandom-connected activities such as the Society for Creative Anachronism. Some hacker jargon originated in SF fandom; see defenestration , great-wall , cyberpunk , h , ha ha only serious , IMHO , mundane , neep-neep , Real Soon Now. Additionally, the jargon terms cowboy , cyberspace , de-rezz , go flatline , ice , phage , virus , wetware , wirehead , and worm originated in SF stories. + n. Another voluntary subculture having a very heavy overlap with hackerdom; most hackers read SF and/or fantasy fiction avidly, and many go to cons (SF conventions) or are involved in fandom-connected activities such as the Society for Creative Anachronism. Some hacker jargon originated in SF fandom; see defenestration, great-wall, cyberpunk, h, IMHO, mundane, neep-neep, Real Soon Now. Additionally, the jargon terms cowboy, cyberspace, de-rezz, go flatline, ice, phage, virus, wetware, wirehead, and worm originated in SF stories.
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1. Space allocated to a disk file but not actually used to store useful information. The techspeak equivalent is internal fragmentation. Antonym: hole.
-2. In the theology of the Church of the SubGenius , a mystical substance or quality that is the prerequisite of all human happiness. Since Unix files are stored compactly, except for the unavoidable wastage in the last block or fragment, it might be said that Unix has no slack. See ha ha only serious.
+2. In the theology of the Church of the SubGenius , a mystical substance or quality that is the prerequisite of all human happiness. Since Unix files are stored compactly, except for the unavoidable wastage in the last block or fragment, it might be said that Unix has no slack.
3. A proprietary messaging system inferior to XMPP.
- /tel`@dildo'niks/ , n. Sex in a computer simulated virtual reality, esp. computer-mediated sexual interaction between the VR presences of two humans. This practice is not yet possible except in the rather limited form of erotic conversation on MUDs and the like. The term, however, is widely recognized in the VR community as a ha ha only serious projection of things to come. When we can sustain a multi-sensory surround good enough for teledildonics, then we'll know we're getting somewhere. See also hot chat. + /tel`@dildo'niks/ , n. Sex via internet connected toys. See also hot chat.
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2. Following the mass-culture discovery of the Internet in 1994 and subsequent proliferation of cheap TCP/IP connections, the network is increasingly synonymous with the Internet itself (as it was before the second wave of wide-area computer networking began around 1980).
-3. A fictional conspiracy of libertarian hacker-subversives and anti-authoritarian monkeywrenchers described in Robert Anton Wilson's novel Schrdinger's Cat , to which many hackers have subsequently decided they belong (this is an example of ha ha only serious ). In sense 1, the network is often abbreviated to the net. Are you on the net? is a frequent question when hackers first meet face to face, and See you on the net! is a frequent goodbye.
+3. A fictional conspiracy of libertarian hacker-subversives and anti-authoritarian monkeywrenchers described in Robert Anton Wilson's novel Schrdinger's Cat , to which many hackers have subsequently decided they belong. In sense 1, the network is often abbreviated to the net. Are you on the net? is a frequent question when hackers first meet face to face, and See you on the net! is a frequent goodbye.
1. Ironically or humorously used to refer to religious issues.
diff --git a/entries/HHOK.txt b/entries/HHOK.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 7eb7627..0000000 --- a/entries/HHOK.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,4 +0,0 @@ -HHOK - -See ha ha only serious. - diff --git a/entries/HHOS.txt b/entries/HHOS.txt deleted file mode 100644 index a3b4b58..0000000 --- a/entries/HHOS.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,4 +0,0 @@ -HHOS - -See ha ha only serious. - diff --git a/entries/brute force.txt b/entries/brute force.txt index e1e8fb3..b3ab5dc 100644 --- a/entries/brute force.txt +++ b/entries/brute force.txt @@ -30,11 +30,9 @@ take to develop a more intelligent algorithm. Additionally, a more intelligent algorithm may imply more long-term complexity cost and bug-chasing than are justified by the speed improvement. Ken Thompson, co-inventor of Unix, is reported to have uttered the epigram When in doubt, -use brute force. He probably intended this as a ha ha only serious , but the -original Unix kernel's preference for simple, robust, and portable -algorithms over brittle smart ones does seem to have been a significant -factor in the success of that OS. Like so many other tradeoffs in software -design, the choice between brute force and complex, finely-tuned cleverness -is often a difficult one that requires both engineering savvy and delicate -esthetic judgment. - +use brute force. The original Unix kernel's preference for simple, robust, +and portable algorithms over brittle smart ones does seem to have been a +significant factor in the success of that OS. Like so many other +tradeoffs in software design, the choice between brute force and complex, +finely-tuned cleverness is often a difficult one that requires both +engineering savvy and delicate esthetic judgment. diff --git a/entries/emoticon.txt b/entries/emoticon.txt index 922dd35..402493f 100644 --- a/entries/emoticon.txt +++ b/entries/emoticon.txt @@ -3,27 +3,6 @@ emoticon /eemohtikon/ , n. [common] An ASCII glyph used to indicate an emotional state in email or news. Although originally intended mostly as jokes, emoticons (or some other explicit humor indication) are virtually required -under certain circumstances in high-volume text-only communication forums -such as Usenet; the lack of verbal and visual cues can otherwise cause what -were intended to be humorous, sarcastic, ironic, or otherwise -non-100%-serious comments to be badly misinterpreted (not always even by -newbie s), resulting in arguments and flame war s. Hundreds of emoticons -have been proposed, but only a few are in common use. These include: :-) -smiley face (for humor, laughter, friendliness, occasionally sarcasm) :-( -frowney face (for sadness, anger, or upset) ;-) half-smiley ( ha ha only -serious ); also known as semi-smiley or winkey face. :-/ wry face (These may -become more comprehensible if you tilt your head sideways, to the left.) The -first two listed are by far the most frequently encountered. Hyphenless -forms of them are common on CompuServe, GEnie, and BIX; see also bixie. On -Usenet , smiley is often used as a generic term synonymous with emoticon , -as well as specifically for the happy-face emoticon. The invention of the -original smiley and frowney emoticons is generally credited to Scott Fahlman -at CMU in 1982. He later wrote: I wish I had saved the original post, or at -least recorded the date for posterity, but I had no idea that I was starting -something that would soon pollute all the world's communication channels. In -September 2002 the original post was recovered. There is a rival claim by -one Kevin McKenzie, who seems to have proposed the smiley on the MsgGroup -mailing list, April 12 1979. It seems likely these two inventions were -independent. Users of the PLATO educational system report using emoticons -composed from overlaid dot-matrix graphics in the 1970s. - +under certain circumstances in high-volume text-only communication such +as chat systems. The original invention of emoticons happened on the +PLATO IV education system in 1972. Also see emoji. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/entries/foo.txt b/entries/foo.txt index dd00871..b688489 100644 --- a/entries/foo.txt +++ b/entries/foo.txt @@ -69,10 +69,7 @@ reports that in the 1959 Dictionary of the TMRC Language , compiled at TMRC , there was an entry that went something like this: FOO: The first syllable of the sacred chant phrase FOO MANE PADME HUM. Our first obligation is to keep the foo counters turning. (For more about the legendary foo counters, -see TMRC. ) This definition used Bill Holman's nonsense word, then only two -decades old and demonstrably still live in popular culture and slang, to a -ha ha only serious analogy with esoteric Tibetan Buddhism. Today's hackers -would find it difficult to resist elaborating a joke like that, and it is -not likely 1959's were any less susceptible. Almost the entire staff of what -later became the MIT AI Lab was involved with TMRC, and the word spread from -there. +see TMRC. ) Today's hackers would find it difficult to resist elaborating +a joke like that, and it is not likely 1959's were any less susceptible. +Almost the entire staff of what later became the MIT AI Lab was involved +with TMRC, and the word spread from there. diff --git a/entries/ha ha only serious.txt b/entries/ha ha only serious.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 16a6155..0000000 --- a/entries/ha ha only serious.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,12 +0,0 @@ -ha ha only serious - -A phrase (often seen abbreviated as HHOS) that aptly captures the flavor of -much hacker discourse. Applied especially to parodies, absurdities, and -ironic jokes that are both intended and perceived to contain a possibly -disquieting amount of truth, or truths that are constructed on in-joke and -self-parody. This lexicon contains many examples of ha-ha-only-serious in -both form and content. Indeed, the entirety of hacker culture is often -perceived as ha-ha-only-serious by hackers themselves; to take it either too -lightly or too seriously marks a person as an outsider, a wannabee, or in -larval stage. For further enlightenment on this subject, consult any Zen -master. See also hacker humor, and koan. diff --git a/entries/hacker humor.txt b/entries/hacker humor.txt index 7c6a01b..85ccc15 100644 --- a/entries/hacker humor.txt +++ b/entries/hacker humor.txt @@ -17,10 +17,9 @@ cartoons, the Marx brothers, the early B-52s, and Monty Python's Flying Circus. Humor that combines this trait with elements of high camp and slapstick is especially favored. 6. References to the symbol-object antinomies and associated ideas in Zen Buddhism and (less often) Taoism. See -has the X nature , Discordianism , zen , ha ha only serious , koan. See also +has the X nature, Discordianism, zen, koan. See also filk , retrocomputing , and the Portrait of J. Random Hacker in Appendix B. If you have an itchy feeling that all six of these traits are really aspects of one thing that is incredibly difficult to talk about exactly, you are (a) correct and (b) responding like a hacker. These traits are also recognizable (though in a less marked form) throughout science-fiction fandom. - diff --git a/entries/science-fiction fandom.txt b/entries/science-fiction fandom.txt index 10fb22f..ba72955 100644 --- a/entries/science-fiction fandom.txt +++ b/entries/science-fiction fandom.txt @@ -4,8 +4,7 @@ n. Another voluntary subculture having a very heavy overlap with hackerdom; most hackers read SF and/or fantasy fiction avidly, and many go to cons (SF conventions) or are involved in fandom-connected activities such as the Society for Creative Anachronism. Some hacker jargon originated in SF -fandom; see defenestration , great-wall , cyberpunk , h , ha ha only serious -, IMHO , mundane , neep-neep , Real Soon Now. Additionally, the jargon terms -cowboy , cyberspace , de-rezz , go flatline , ice , phage , virus , wetware -, wirehead , and worm originated in SF stories. - +fandom; see defenestration, great-wall, cyberpunk, h, IMHO, mundane, +neep-neep, Real Soon Now. Additionally, the jargon terms cowboy, +cyberspace, de-rezz, go flatline, ice, phage, virus, wetware, wirehead, +and worm originated in SF stories. diff --git a/entries/slack.txt b/entries/slack.txt index 2a7f149..d053431 100644 --- a/entries/slack.txt +++ b/entries/slack.txt @@ -5,5 +5,5 @@ information. The techspeak equivalent is internal fragmentation. Antonym: hole. 2. In the theology of the Church of the SubGenius , a mystical substance or quality that is the prerequisite of all human happiness. Since Unix files are stored compactly, except for the unavoidable wastage in the -last block or fragment, it might be said that Unix has no slack. See ha ha -only serious. 3. A proprietary messaging system inferior to XMPP. +last block or fragment, it might be said that Unix has no slack. 3. A +proprietary messaging system inferior to XMPP. diff --git a/entries/teledildonics.txt b/entries/teledildonics.txt index 8ad0409..becfb1c 100644 --- a/entries/teledildonics.txt +++ b/entries/teledildonics.txt @@ -1,9 +1,3 @@ teledildonics -/tel`@dildo'niks/ , n. Sex in a computer simulated virtual reality, esp. -computer-mediated sexual interaction between the VR presences of two humans. -This practice is not yet possible except in the rather limited form of -erotic conversation on MUDs and the like. The term, however, is widely -recognized in the VR community as a ha ha only serious projection of things -to come. When we can sustain a multi-sensory surround good enough for -teledildonics, then we'll know we're getting somewhere. See also hot chat. +/tel`@dildo'niks/ , n. Sex via internet connected toys. See also hot chat. diff --git a/entries/the network.txt b/entries/the network.txt index 3551b23..6d955b2 100644 --- a/entries/the network.txt +++ b/entries/the network.txt @@ -14,8 +14,6 @@ second wave of wide-area computer networking began around 1980). 3. A fictional conspiracy of libertarian hacker-subversives and anti-authoritarian monkeywrenchers described in Robert Anton Wilson's novel Schrdinger's Cat , to which many hackers have subsequently decided they -belong (this is an example of ha ha only serious ). In sense 1, the network -is often abbreviated to the net. Are you on the net? is a frequent question -when hackers first meet face to face, and See you on the net! is a frequent -goodbye. - +belong. In sense 1, the network is often abbreviated to the net. Are you +on the net? is a frequent question when hackers first meet face to face, +and See you on the net! is a frequent goodbye.