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• ue-hacker: [analogy with `trufan' from SF fandom] n.
  One who exemplifies the primary values of hacker culture, esp....
• demigod: n. A hacker with years of experience, a national reputatio
  and a major role in the development of at least one design, tool, or game used by or known to more than half of the hacker community....
• Hackers: Steven Levy Anchor/Doubleday 1984 ISBN 0-385-19195-2 Levy's book is at its best in describing the early MIT hackers at the Model Railroad Club and the early days of the microcomputer revolution.
  He never understood UNIX or the networks, though, and his enshrinement of Richard Stallman as "the last true hacker" turns out (thankfully) to have been quite misleading....
• ue-hacker n. [analogy with `trufan' from SF fandom] One who exemplifies the primary values of hacker culture, esp.
  competence and helpfulness to other hackers. A high compliment....
• cyberpunk /si:'ber-puhnk/ n.,adj. [orig. by SF writer Bruce Bethke and/or editor Gardner Dozois] A subgenre of SF launched in 1982 by William Gibson's epoch-making novel "Neuromancer" (though its roots go back through Vernor Vinge's "True Names" (see the Bibliography in Appendix C) to John Brunner's 1975 novel "The Shockwave Rider").
  Gibson's near-total ignorance of computers and the present-day hacker culture enabled him to speculate about the role of computers and hackers in the future in ways hackers have since found both irritatingly naï...
• Stupids: n. Term used by {samurai} for the {suit}s who employ them
  uccinctly expresses an attitude at least as common, though usually better disguised, among other subcultures of hackers....
• demigod n. A hacker with years of experience, a world-wide reputatio
  and a major role in the development of at least one design, tool, or game used by or known to more than half of the hacker community....
• foo /foo/ 1. interj. Term of disgust. 2. [very common] Used very generally as a sample name for absolutely anything, esp.
  programs and files (esp. scratch files). 3. First on the standard list of metasyntactic variables used in syntax examples....
• T: /T/ 1. [from LISP terminology for `true'] Yes. Used in reply to a question (particularly one asked using {The `-P' convention}).
  In LISP, the constant T means `true', among other things....