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The New Hacker's Dictionary - 3rd Edition
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by:
Raymond, Eric S. (Editor)
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Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: October 11, 1996
ISBN: 0262680920
Format:Paperback
Pages:547
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Book Description
Amazon.com This third edition of the tremendously popular Hacker's Dictionary adds 100 new entries and updates 200 entries. In case you aren't familiar with it, this is no snoozer dictionary of technical terms, although you'll certainly find accurate
definitions for most techie jargon. It's the slang and secret language among computer jocks that offers the most fun. Don't know what the Infinite-Monkey Theorem is? Or the meaning of "rat dance?" It's all here. Most people don't sit down to read
dictionaries for entertainment, but this is surely an exception.
Product Description: "A sprightly lexicon." -- William Safire, New York Times Magazine "For anyone who likes to have slippery, elastic fun with language, this is a time for
celebration. . . . The New Hacker's Dictionary . . . is not only a useful guidebook to very much un-official technical terms and street tech slang, but also a de facto ethnography of the early years of the hacker culture." -- Mondo 2000 "My current
favorite is `wave a dead chicken.' New to you? You've waved a dead chicken when you've gone through motions to satisfy onlookers (suits?), even when you're sure it's all futile. Raymond's book exhilarates. . . . The New Hacker's Dictionary, though, is
not for skimming. Allot, each day, a half hour, severely timed if you hope to get any work done." -- Hugh Kenner, Byte
This new edition of the hacker's own phenomenally successful lexicon includes more than 100 new entries and updates or revises
200 more. Historically and etymologically richer than its predecessor, it supplies additional background on existing entries and clarifies the murky origins of several important jargon terms (overturning a few long-standing folk etymologies) while still
retaining its high giggle value.
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