THINGS HACKERS DETEST AND AVOID

  

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THINGS HACKERS DETEST AND AVOID

Specialty Definition: THINGS HACKERS DETEST AND AVOID

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Things Hackers Detest and Avoid IBM mainframes. All the works of Microsoft. Smurfs, Ewoks, and other forms of offensive cuteness. Bureaucracies. Stupid people. Easy listening music. Television (with occasional exceptions for cartoons, movies, and good SF like "Star Trek" classic or Babylon 5). Business suits. Dishonesty. Incompetence. Boredom. COBOL. BASIC. Character-based menu interfaces. Source: Jargon File.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: THINGS HACKERS DETEST AND AVOID


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 48 49 4E 47 53      48 41 43 4B 45 52 53      44 45 54 45 53 54      41 4E 44      41 56 4F 49 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

                

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001000 01001001 01001110 01000111 01010011 00100000 01001000 01000001 01000011 01001011 01000101 01010010 01010011 00100000 01000100 01000101 01010100 01000101 01010011 01010100 00100000 01000001 01001110 01000100 00100000 01000001 01010110 01001111 01001001 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#72 &#73 &#78 &#71 &#83 &#32 &#72 &#65 &#67 &#75 &#69 &#82 &#83 &#32 &#68 &#69 &#84 &#69 &#83 &#84 &#32 &#65 &#78 &#68 &#32 &#65 &#86 &#79 &#73 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0048 0049 004E 0047 0053      0048 0041 0043 004B 0045 0052 0053      0044 0045 0054 0045 0053 0054      0041 004E 0044      0041 0056 004F 0049 0044

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5442434841532423537453952532383954395354235483823556494338

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