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by JadeNB 5244 days ago
I guess it is meant to match 'leet'? I'm not sure why there's the option for 3 letters, though ….

EDIT: Ah, got it (I think). It's referring to being a polymath hacker: "Just another vim hacker", "Just another perl hacker", "Just another Unix hacker", etc.
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dfc 5244 days ago
Okay. That's what I was thinking too but I couldn't stop wondering if there was anything more to it.

But he is not a hacker of any of the following?

OS X

Linux

Emacs

C++

C

Python

Sh

Haskell

Go

Network

Computer

Prolog

Scheme

The 3,4 seems so limiting that it kind of vitiates the witty/cute aspect of the tagline...

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JadeNB 5240 days ago
Many of these can be shoehorned in: Mac, -, -, cpp, gcc, -, -, ghc, ogle, -, -, -, Lisp.

(I know that Scheme is not the same as Lisp, and that a language is not the same as its compiler; but would you have "Just another .* hacker"? :-) )

(Also, I can't remember if 'ogle' is actually a tool in the Go language toolkit, although I seem to remember someone saying that it should be. Googling 'go ogle' doesn't have much luck, since Google thinks it knows what I really meant.)

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