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whack - According to arch-hacker James Gosling, to "...modify a program with no idea whatsoever how it works." (See whacker.) It is actually possible to do this in nontrivial circumstances if the change is small and well-defined and you are very good at glarking things from context. As a trivial example, it is relatively easy to change all "stderr" writes to "stdout" writes in a piece of C filter code which remains otherwise mysterious.
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Look At Me Now I was doing fine in my way-- whacking off, a sheep or two, when the Big Guy puffed out of a cloud, beat me to the ground, grabbed one of my ribs, and before I was healed, sashayed a dame into my space.
Look at Me Now by McGovern, Ann / Confrontation
Plus a bunch of bedroom-based nerds whose eyesight gets increasingly worse due to nights spent salivating over the internet, whacking off their rants to football websites.
Football: It's a pizza budget but Rafa has us dining on caviare by The Mirror (London, England)
 
 
 
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