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dike: vt. To remove or disable a portion of something, as a wire from a
computer or a subroutine from a program. A standard slogan is “When
in doubt, dike it out”. (The implication is that it is usually more
effective to attack software problems by reducing complexity than by
increasing it.) The word ‘dikes’ is widely used to mean
‘diagonal cutters’, a kind of wire cutter. To ‘dike
something out’ means to use such cutters to remove something. Indeed,
the TMRC Dictionary defined dike as “to attack with
dikes”. Among hackers this term has been metaphorically extended to
informational objects such as sections of code.
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