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• oolsmith: n. The software equivalent of a tool-and-die speciali
  one who specializes in making the {tool}s with which other programmers create applications....
• Other Interests: Some hobbies are widely shared and recognized as going with the culture
  science fiction, music, medievalism (in the active form practiced by the Society for Creative Anachronism and similar organizations), chess, go, backgammon, wargames, and intellectual games of all kinds....
• pencil and paper: n. An archaic information storage and transmission device that works by depositing smears of graphite on bleached wood pulp.
  More recent developments in paper-based technology include improved `write-once' update devices which use tiny rolling heads similar to mouse balls to deposit colored pigment....
• music:: n. A common extracurricular interest of hackers (compare {{science-fiction fandom}}, {{oriental food}}
  ee also {filk}). Hackish folklore has long claimed that musical and programming abilities are closely related, and there has been at least one large-scale statistical study that supports this....
• etwork address: n. (also `net address') As used by hackers, means an address on `the' network (see {network, the}
  his is almost always a {bang path} or {{Internet address}})....
• languages of choice: n. {C} and {LISP}. Nearly every hacker knows one of these, and most good ones are fluent in both.
  Smalltalk and Prolog are also popular in small but influential communities....
• elf-reference: n. See {self-reference}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• app: /ap/ n. Short for `application program', as opposed to a systems program.
  Apps are what systems vendors are forever chasing developers to create for their environments so they can sell more boxes....
• delta: n. 1. [techspeak] A quantitative change, especially a small or incremental one (this use is general in physics and engineering).
  I just doubled the speed of my program!" "What was the delta on program size?...