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What (who) is J Random Hacker - definition

MORAL VALUES AND PHILOSOPHY THAT ARE COMMON IN HACKER CULTURE

Hacker Ethic; Hacker ethics; Hacker ethos

J. Random Hacker

NAME FOR AN ARBITRARY PROGRAMMER

J. Random Websurfer; J. Random; J. Random X

<jargon> /J rand'm hak'r/ MIT jargon for a mythical figure; the archetypal hacker nerd. This may originally have been inspired by "J. Fred Muggs", a show-biz chimpanzee whose name was a household word back in the early days of TMRC, and was probably influenced by J. Presper Eckert (one of the co-inventors of the electronic computer). See random, Suzie COBOL. (1996-10-16)

J. Random

NAME FOR AN ARBITRARY PROGRAMMER

J. Random Websurfer; J. Random; J. Random X

<jargon> /J rand'm/ (Generalised from J. Random Hacker) Arbitrary; ordinary; any one; any old. "J. Random" is often prefixed to a noun to make a name out of it. It means roughly "some particular" or "any specific one". "Would you let J. Random Loser marry your daughter?" The most common uses are "J. Random Hacker", "J. Random Loser", and "J. Random Nerd" ("Should J. Random Loser be allowed to gun down other people?"), but it can be used simply as an elaborate version of random in any sense. [Jargon File]

David Hacker

OLYMPIC FIELD HOCKEY PLAYER

David Hacker (field hockey); Hacker, David

David John Hacker (born 25 March 1964) is a British former field hockey player who competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hacker

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Hacker ethic

The hacker ethic is a philosophy and set of moral values within hacker culture. Practitioners believe that sharing information and data with others is an ethical imperative. The hacker ethic is related to the concept of freedom of information, as well as the political theories of anti-authoritarianism, socialism, liberalism, anarchism, and libertarianism.

While some tenets of the hacker ethic were described in other texts like Computer Lib/Dream Machines (1974) by Ted Nelson, the term hacker ethic is generally attributed to journalist Steven Levy, who appears to have been the first to document both the philosophy and the founders of the philosophy in his 1984 book titled Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker ethic