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terminal junkie
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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n. [UK] A wannabee or early larval stage hacker who spends most of his or
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her time wandering the directory tree and writing noddy programs just to get
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a fix of computer time. Variants include terminal jockey , console junkie ,
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and console jockey. The term console jockey seems to imply more expertise
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than the other three (possibly because of the exalted status of the console
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relative to an ordinary terminal). See also twink , read-only user.
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Appropriately, this term was used in the works of William S. Burroughs to
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describe a heroin addict with an unlimited supply.
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