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.

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