This profile reflects detailed comments on an earlier `trial
balloon' version from about a hundred Usenet respondents. Where
comparatives are used, the implicit `other' is a randomly
selected segment of the non-hacker population of the same size as
hackerdom.
An important point: Except in some relatively minor respects
such as slang vocabulary, hackers don't get to be the way they
are by imitating each other. Rather, it seems to be the case that
the combination of personality traits that makes a hacker so
conditions one's outlook on life that one tends to end up being
like other hackers whether one wants to or not (much as bizarrely
detailed similarities in behavior and preferences are found in
genetic twins raised separately).
General Appearance:
Dress:
Reading Habits:
Other Interests:
Physical
Activity and Sports:
Education:
Things
Hackers Detest and Avoid:
Food:
Politics:
Gender and
Ethnicity:
Religion:
Ceremonial
Chemicals:
Communication
Style:
Geographical
Distribution:
Sexual Habits:
Personality
Characteristics:
Weaknesses of the
Hacker Personality:
Miscellaneous:
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