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chainik
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/chi:nik/ [Russian, literally teapot ] Almost synonymous with muggle.
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Implies both ignorance and a certain amount of willingness to learn, but
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does not necessarily imply as little experience or short exposure time as
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newbie. Both a novice user and someone using a system for a long time
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without any understanding of the internals can be referred to as
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chainiks. Very widespread term in Russian hackish, often used in an
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English context by Russian-speaking hackers esp. in Israel (e.g. Our
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new colleague is a complete chainik ). FidoNet discussion groups
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often had a chainik subsection for newbies and, well, old chainiks (eg.
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su.asm.chainik, ru.linux.chainik, ru.html.chainik). Public projects often
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have a chainik mailing list to keep the chainiks off the developers' and
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experienced users' discussions. Today, the word is slowly slipping into
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mainstream Russian due to the Russian translation of the popular
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yellow-black covered foobar for dummies series, which (correctly) uses
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chainik for dummy , but its frequent (though not excessive) use is still
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characteristic hacker-speak.
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