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demigod
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demigod
a. a mythological being who is part mortal, part god
b. a lesser deity
(person)demigod - A hacker with years of experience, a national reputation, and a major role in the development of at least one design, tool, or game used by or known to more than half of the hacker community. To qualify as a genuine demigod, the person must recognisably identify with the hacker community and have helped shape it. Major demigods include Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie (co-inventors of Unix and C) and Richard Stallman (inventor of Emacs). In their hearts of hearts, most hackers dream of someday becoming demigods themselves, and more than one major software project has been driven to completion by the author's veiled hopes of apotheosis.

See also net.god, true-hacker.


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Cate offers old-fashioned "appreciations" of Nietzsche's better-known works, such as The Gay Science (1882) and Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883-85) while dispensing with serious discussion of problematic Nietzschean concepts like the Ubermensch or the eternal return.
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In the heyday of the Objectivist movement, Rand used to brush off charges that her Ubermensch heroes were unrealistic by pointing to herself and the Brandens, at one point shouting during a debate, "Am I impossible?
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He suggests, for example, that Superman is a racial mediation between anti-Semitic myths of the Ubermensch and Jewish cultural tropes (40-41).
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