kluge around vt.
To avoid a bug or difficult condition by inserting a kluge. Compare workaround.
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kluge up vt.
To lash together a quick hack to perform a task; this is
milder than cruft together
and has some of the connotations of hack
up (note, however, that the construction `kluge on'
corresponding to hack on is never
used). "I've kluged up this routine to dump the buffer contents
to a safe place."
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Knights of the Lambda Calculus n.
A semi-mythical organization of wizardly LISP and Scheme
hackers. The name refers to a mathematical formalism invented by
Alonzo Church, with which LISP is intimately connected. There is
no enrollment list and the criteria for induction are unclear,
but one well-known LISPer has been known to give out buttons and,
in general, the members know who they
are....
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knobs pl.n.
Configurable options, even in software and even those you
can't adjust in real time. Anything you can twiddle is a knob. "Has this PNG viewer got an
alpha knob?" Software may be described as having "knobs and
switches" or occasionally "knobs and lights".
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Knuth /ka-nooth'/ n.
[Donald E. Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming"]
Mythically, the reference that answers all questions about data
structures or algorithms. A safe answer when you do not know: "I
think you can find that in Knuth." Contrast the literature. See also bible. There is a Donald Knuth home page at http://www-cs-faculty.Stanford.EDU/~knuth.
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koan /koh'an/ n.
A Zen teaching riddle. Classically, koans are attractive
paradoxes to be meditated on; their purpose is to help one to
enlightenment by temporarily jamming normal cognitive processing
so that something more interesting can happen (this practice is
associated with Rinzei Zen Buddhism). Hackers are very fond of
the koan form and compose their own koans for humororous and/or
enlightening effect. See Some AI
Koans, has the X
nature, hacker
humor.