Genre - Computers. You are on the page - 9
of this kind, of overtones and undertones that illuminate the hackish psyche.But there is more. Hackers, as a rule, love wordplay and are very conscious and inventive in their use of language. These traits seem to be common in young children, but the conformity-enforcing machine we are pleased to call an educational system bludgeons them out of most of us before adolescence. Thus, linguistic invention in most subcultures of the modern West is a halting and largely unconscious process. Hackers,
similar. I want yours. I want theone you have, even if I already have one or many.3. Lust: I have to have it. 4. Anger: I will hurt you to insure that I have it, andand to insure that you do not have one. 5. Envy: I hate that you have one. 6. Greed: There is no end to how much I want, or to howlittle I want you to have in comparison. 7. Sloth: I am opposed to you moving up the ladder: itmeans that I will have to move up the ladder, to keepmy position of lordship over you. If I have twice asmuch
βYouβve just done in two hours what it takes the three of us two days to do.β My college roommate was working at a retail electronics store in the early 2000s. Occasionally, the store would receive a spreadsheet of thousands of product prices from its competitor. A team of three employees would print the spreadsheet onto a thick stack of paper and split it among themselves. For each product price, they would look up their storeβs price and note all the products that their competitors sold for