I don't think this article had advice per say on relationships, just a shallow shallow glimpse into what they view as love and the process of getting into it
The hacker culture itself is just a movement that embodies the principles one would naturally grow once one fully immerses oneself in an intellectual pursuit such as computer programming, model train hacking, math, lock-picking etc. Hence you don't 'have' to learn the culture from some damn book
I may be the least qualified person on here, my here's my guess. Imagine you're a normal developer, minding your own business .. even so you have dozens of problems that plague your world of programming ... overtime, no actual formalization of requirements, n-number of tradeoffs and the worst part your main product is a damn customized cms system, now all of a sudden this cms explodes and is in demand . Now all your problems are made 100 fold and your pretty little world has disappeared .... that is pretty much what I expect the average answer to be on here