hardwired adj.
1. In software, syn. for hardcoded. 2. By extension, anything that is
not modifiable, especially in the sense of customizable to one's
particular needs or tastes.
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has the X nature
[seems to derive from Zen Buddhist koans of the form "Does an
X have the Buddha-nature?"] adj. Common hacker construction for
`is an X', used for humorous emphasis. "Anyone who can't even use
a program with on-screen help embedded in it truly has the loser nature!" See also the
X that can be Y is not the true X. See also mu.
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hash bucket n.
A notional receptacle, a set of which might be used to
apportion data items for sorting or lookup purposes. When you
look up a name in the phone book (for example), you typically
hash it by extracting its first letter; the hash buckets are the
alphabetically ordered letter sections. This term is used as
techspeak with respect to code that uses actual hash functions;
in jargon, it is used for human associative memory as well. Thus,
two things `in the same hash bucket' are more difficult to
discriminate, and may be confused. "If you hash English words
only by length, you get too many common grammar words in the
first couple of hash buckets." Compare hash collision.