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Geek

Informal and somewhat derogatory; a new hire at a Wall Street trading firm. The term was popularized by the book Liar's Poker, which describes the author's experience as a bond trader on Wall Street in the 1980s.
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While the geeks out there would surely appreciate its binary coded decimal (BCD) display, I'm sure the Uber-geek would insist on using its raw binary setting.
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