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• 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....
• In the age of television, reading books is not as important as it once was.
  People can learn as much by watching television as they can by reading books....
• music n. A common extracurricular interest of hackers (compare science-fiction fandom, oriental food 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....
• oid: [from `android'] suff. 1. Used as in mainstream English to indicate a poor imitation, a counterfeit, or some otherwise slightly bogus resemblance.
  Hackers will happily use it with all sorts of non-Greco/Latin stem words that wouldn't keep company with it in mainstream English....
• cycle: 1. n. The basic unit of computation. What every hacker wants more of (noted hacker Bill Gosper describes himself as a "cycle junkie").
  One can describe an instruction as taking so many `clock cycles'....
• uperprogrammer: n. A prolific programmer; one who can code exceedingly well and quickly.
  Not all hackers are superprogrammers, but many are....
• foreground: [UNIX] vt. To bring a task to the top of one's {stack} for immediate processing, and hackers often use it in this sense for non-computer tasks.
  If your presentation is due next week, I guess I'd better foreground writing up the design document....
• fan: n. Without qualification, indicates a fan of science fiction, especially one who goes to {con}s and tends to hang out with other fans.
  Many hackers are fans, so this term has been imported from fannish slang...
• meme: /meem/ [coined by analogy with `gene', by Richard Dawkins] n.
  An idea considered as a {replicator}, esp. with the connotation that memes parasitize people into propagating them much as viruses do....