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era n. Syn. epoch.
Eric Conspiracy n. A shadowy group of mustachioed hackers named Eric first pinpointed as a sinister conspiracy by an infamous talk.
bizarre posting ca. 1987; this was doubtless influenced b...
Eris /e'ris/ n. The Greek goddess of Chaos, Discord, Confusion, and Things You Know Not Of
her name was latinized to Discordia and she was worshiped by that name in Rome....
erotics /ee-ro'tiks/ n. [Helsinki University of Technology, Finland] n.
English-language university slang for electronics....
error 33 [XEROX PARC] n. 1. Predicating one research effort upon the success of another.
eurodemo /yoor'o-dem`-o/ a demo, sense 4
evil adj. As used by hackers, implies that some system, program, person, or institution is sufficiently maldesigned as to be not worth the bother of dealing with.
Unlike the adjectives in ...
evil and rude adj. Both evil and rude, but with the additional connotation that the rudeness was due to malice rather than incompetence.
Thus, for example: Microsoft's Windows NT is evil...
Evil Empire n. [from Ronald Reagan's famous characterization of the communist Soviet Union] Formerly IBM, now Microsoft.
Functionally, the company most hackers love to hate at any give...
exa- /ek's*/ pref. [SI] See quantifiers.

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