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WalterGR on Feb 23, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Original Hacker's Dictionary (1988)

...he's really taken it off the rails, adding terms from war blogging and other sources that really have nothing to do with hacking at all.

And terms of his own devising that haven't caught on. That seems like the cardinal sin of a lexicographer.

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