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person (By analogy with "trufan" from SF fandom) One who
exemplifies the primary values of hacker culture, especially
competence and helpfulness to other hackers. A high
compliment. "He spent 6 hours helping me bring up UUCP and
netnews on my FOOBAR 4000 last week - manifestly the act of a
true-hacker".
(1996-01-07)