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Just don't delude yourself into believing that that makes you a hacker, because it's not fooling most of the rest of us.

From The New Hacker's Dictionary:

1. A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary. 2. One who programs enthusiastically (even obsessively) or who enjoys programming rather than just theorizing about programming. 3. A person capable of appreciating hack value. 4. A person who is good at programming quickly. 5. An expert at a particular program, or one who frequently does work using it or on it; as in `a Unix hacker'. (Definitions 1 through 5 are correlated, and people who fit them congregate.) 6. An expert or enthusiast of any kind. One might be an astronomy hacker, for example. 7. One who enjoys the intellectual challenge of creatively overcoming or circumventing limitations.

Source: http://www.outpost9.com/reference/jargon/jargon_23.html#SEC3...

So, where is the "you shall use Android or Linux" requirement? Oh, I see, The New Hacker's Dictionary is wrong and not true to the law either.

Really, why do people even care?



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