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hackerdom

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  • noun The realm or sphere of computer hackers.

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hacker +‎ -dom

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Examples

  • The Jennifer Morgue takes the reader on a wild adventure through the worlds of Lovecraft and Ian Fleming, non-Euclidian mathematics and computer hackerdom — sort of like Austin Powers, only more squamous and rugose — with fast cars and faster women.

    Books in the Mail (W/E 12/20/2008) RobB 2008

  • The Jennifer Morgue takes the reader on a wild adventure through the worlds of Lovecraft and Ian Fleming, non-Euclidian mathematics and computer hackerdom — sort of like Austin Powers, only more squamous and rugose — with fast cars and faster women.

    Archive 2008-12-01 RobB 2008

  • Perhaps this decade will bring a Linus Torvalds or Bill Gates of bio-hackerdom -- a hobbyist-turned-entrepreneur who can simultaneously innovate and market his or her DNA-driven ideas

    Another Day in the Ketchup Mine 2005

  • Thus, there is far less overlap between hackerdom and crackerdom than the mundane reader misled by sensationalistic journalism might expect.

    hackers good, crackers bad 2005

  • Thus, there is far less overlap between hackerdom and crackerdom than the mundane reader misled by sensationalistic journalism might expect.

    Archive 2005-04-01 2005

  • Perhaps this decade will bring a Linus Torvalds or Bill Gates of bio-hackerdom — a hobbyist-turned-entrepreneur who can simultaneously innovate and market his or her DNA-driven ideas

    Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Amateur Genetic Engineering 2005

  • A think-tank wonk has come up with an entomology-derived heirarchy of hackerdom.

    Boing Boing: November 18, 2001 - November 24, 2001 Archives 2001

  • In the old days of the MIT righteous hackerdom, crashing systems didn't hurt anybody.

    The Hacker Crackdown Sterling, Bruce 1992

  • Having entered the lifestyle of hackerdom, I was now, unsurprisingly, following its logic.

    The Hacker Crackdown Sterling, Bruce 1992

  • At this question, the unmistakable light of true hackerdom flares in Gail Thackeray's eyes.

    The Hacker Crackdown Sterling, Bruce 1992

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  • Prolagus commented on the word hackerdom

    Virgil Griffith, another enterprising computer scientist under 30, once explained it to me: “Hackerdom rewards spontaneity, curiosity and ingenuity. Science rewards rigor and forging solid bedrock to stand on — which means a lot of carefully dotting i’s and crossing t’s. Although scientific questions are harder, more abstract and tend to have less immediate influence in the world, the questions are deeper and the answers so uplifting and transcendently beautiful that contact with them is a genuine spiritual experience.”

    "Looking for the Real Mark Zuckerberg" by Virginia Heffernan, The New York Times, December 10, 2010.

    December 11, 2010