Something the author of the item linked below doesn't seem to understand is the term "grok". It is a word coined by science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein for the novel "Stranger in a Strange Land". It means know or understand at a very deep level. For a time it became part of technofile English.
Notice the word "technofile". Today we might use the word "geek", but at the time "grok" was in use, "geek" still meant a 1930s US circus freak (usually mentally retarded, mentally ill or alcoholic) whose "act" commonly included eating a live chicken.
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