zen

:zen: vt. To figure out something by meditation or by a sudden flash of enlightenment. Originally applied to bugs, but occasionally applied to problems of life in general. "How'd you figure out the buffer allocation problem?" "Oh, I zenned it." Contrast grok which connotes a time-extended version of zenning a system. Compare hack mode See also guru

Jargon File Version 4.3.1, 29 JUN 2001 =

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