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/klä-bər/

vt. To overwrite, usually unintentionally:

"I walked off the end of the array and clobbered the stack."

Compare mung, scribble, trash, and smash the stack.

/C-L-M/

[Sun: 'Career Limiting Move']

1. n. An action endangering one's future prospects of getting plum projects and raises, and possibly one's job:

"His Halloween costume was a parody of his manager. He won the prize for 'best CLM'."

2. adj. Denotes extreme severity of a bug, discovered by a customer and obviously missed earlier because of poor testing:

"That's a CLM bug!"

/klēn/

1. adj. Used of hardware or software designs, implies 'elegance in the small', that is, a design or implementation that may not hold any surprises but does things in a way that is reasonably intuitive and relatively easy to comprehend from the outside.

The antonym is 'grungy' or crufty.

2. v. To remove unneeded or undesired files in a effort to reduce clutter:

"I'm cleaning up my account."

"I cleaned up the garbage and now have 10 Gigs of freespace on that partition."

/klas'ik C/

[a play on 'Coke Classic']

/ci$/

n. Hackerism for 'CIS', CompuServe Information Service. The dollar sign refers to CompuServe's rather steep line charges. Often used in sig blocks just before a CompuServe address.

Syn. Compu$erve.

/sin-də-ˈre-lə bu̇k/

[CMU]

n. 'Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation', by John Hopcroft and Jeffrey Ullman, (Addison-Wesley, 1979). So called because the cover depicts a girl (putatively Cinderella) sitting in front of a Rube Goldberg device and holding a rope coming out of it. The back cover depicts the girl with the device in shambles after she has pulled on the rope.

See also book titles.

Cicada 3301 is a mysterious and enigmatic online puzzle or alternate reality game that gained notoriety for its complexity and anonymity. It first appeared in January 2012 with a series of cryptic puzzles and challenges, often posted on various internet forums and websites.

The puzzles typically involve a combination of cryptography, steganography, computer programming, and knowledge of various disciplines. Solving these challenges often requires a deep understanding of diverse subjects and analytical skills.

/chərch əv the səbjēn-yəs/

n. A mutant offshoot of Discordianism launched in 1981 as a spoof of fundamentalist Christianity by the 'Reverend' Ivan Stang, a brilliant satirist with a gift for promotion. Popular among hackers as a rich source of bizarre imagery and references such as "Bob" the divine drilling-equipment salesman, the Benevolent Space Xists, and the Stark Fist of Removal. Much SubGenius theory is concerned with the acquisition of the mystical substance or quality of 'slack'.

/chəg/

vi. To run slowly; to grind or grovel.

"The disk is chugging like crazy."