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Comment author: wedrifid 22 April 2011 05:13:40AM 10 points [-]

(sense 7) One who enjoys the intellectual challenge of creatively overcoming or circumventing limitations.

That seems to fit pretty well.

It certainly fits 'hacker' (and myself) well. It doesn't fit people who are indifferent to intellectual challenge but just want to live (and so do cryonics) or just want to win (and so min-max the @#%$ out of life).

Comment author: ameriver 22 April 2011 07:02:06PM 1 point [-]

Upvoted for this:

...just want to win (and so min-max the @#%$ out of life).

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