Keeping Up with the NewSpeak -- "hacker"
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       Editor's note:  Below is an entry from the New Hacker's Dictionary. 
hacker: [originally, someone who makes furniture with an axe] 
n.1. A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and 
how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to 
learn only the minimum necessary.  2. One who programs enthusiastically 
(even obsessively) or who enjoys programming rather than just theorizing about 
programming.  3. A person capable of appreciating {hack value}.  4. A person 
who is good at programming quickly.  5. An expert at a particular program,
or one who frequently does work using it or on it; as in `a UNIXhacker'.  
(Definitions 1 through 5 are correlated, and people who fit them congregate.)  
6. An expert or enthusiast of any kind.  One might be an astronomy hacker, for 
example.  7. One who enjoys the intellectual challenge of creatively 
overcoming or circumventing limitations.  8. [deprecated] A malicious 
meddler who tries to discover sensitive information by poking around.  
Hence `passwordhacker', `network hacker'.  See {cracker}.