Terms vs Hackerish - What's the difference?
terms | hackerish |
(informal) Resembling or characteristic of a hacker (technically skilled computer enthusiast).
* 1985 , Byte magazine (volume 10)
* 1990 , Dr. Dobb's journal of software tools for the professional programmer?
* 2009 , Damien Stolarz, David Jurick, Adam Stolarz, William Hurley, iPhone Hacks: Pushing the iPhone and iPod Touch Beyond Their Limits
*2013 , Joanna Biggs, "Tell me everything", London Review of Books , vol. 35, no. 7:
*:Facebook’s unencumbered, efficient, agile, hackerish style is to make everything seem ‘easy’ – and when you need, in one of Zuckerberg’s favourite phrases, to ‘move fast and break things’, you just shrug.
(computing, informal) Resembling or characteristic of a hacker (malicious user who breaks into computer systems).
* 1995 , Lance Rose, NetLaw: your rights in the online world?
* 2006 , Wally Wang, Steal this computer book 4.0: what they won't tell you about the Internet
As a noun terms
is .As an adjective hackerish is
(informal) resembling or characteristic of a hacker (technically skilled computer enthusiast).hackerish
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Adjective
(en adjective)- The hackerish look of dot-matrix fonts on screens and printers has partially prevented full acceptance of computers as tools for a literate public.
- Jones is an engineer, and presented the engineering approach as the more hackerish , the more ad hoc of the two: Solve the problem no matter what.
- There is a rich, hackerish tradition in the computer world of making any new computer or video game system emulate those that came before it.
- ...requires users to disclose new and useful information on computer and network security or other hackerish subjects to be admitted to the privileged areas of the system.
- To find a hacker chat room, look for rooms with names like
- 2600, #phreak, #carding, #cracks, #anarchy, or any other phrase that sounds hackerish .