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		sspencer on Aug 1, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hippies, Nerds, and Lumpenprogrammers Want to know what a real hacker profile is like? http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/appendixb.html I always thought that was fairly accurate.

rkts on Aug 1, 2008 [–]

The earlier versions were better, before esr fucked up the sections on politics and personality. Here's the first version in which that appendix appeared; search for "this profile".

http://jargon-file.org/archive/jargon-2.3.1.dos.txt

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