Word: wholey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have trouble accepting this. What you speak of is wholey unconventional. We've always scorned the Olympics for its impurities. Day in and day out we intellectualize and mourn its political nature. It's hard to even appreciate your ideas," one of the baffled men admits...
...Large, 21, and Skef Wholey, 19, are SPICE rack regulars along with MacLachlan. Like most hard-core hackers, they do not think much about graduation or life after college: all that seems incidental to the computer experience. They generally study, work and talk in the SPICE rack, and when they go out for food, their choice of eatery is understood and unvarying: Jimmy Tsang's Chinese restaurant in Shadyside. Any suggestion that hacking is the least bit odd makes them bridle. Says Large: "Hacking just means doing something with enthusiasm. I know more about farming than the average person...
...said to myself, 'Gee, here are people who are interested in something.' I was unhappy here until I started hanging around hackers." Hangers-on are tolerated if they know their place; poseurs who spout hacker phrases but know nothing about computers are regarded with contempt. Says Wholey: "You learn to avoid those people. They have nothing...