It’s a figure of speech- One of a software test engineer tasks are to find the faults in the program and exploits them until it breaks or crashes. I’m just trying to be irritating to the web developers/programs and I am testing their tolerance.
“Codeslaves”- a term some of the administrators of woot uses to describe the programmers/web developers.
I’m actually from the days before the current meaning of hacker, when it did not mean you were trying to bypass passwords or break into stuff or hack software. It used to mean guys like us who stayed up till 5 in the morning cause that’s the best time to get processor time on the big iron, or wrote alarm clock software for a TRS-80 (which had no built in clock, you had to count for-next loops and calculate how many loops was a second) when we could have just bought an alarm clock.
Lol, BASIC programming, something that Microsoft made their own! I used to make music with it or play a really high pitched note that irritated other fellow students but the teacher couldn’t hear it or find the source because he was too old.