The thing is that as hacker is a cool word, people tend to become cool by bending reality. It's the same as renaming Ecmascript to Javascript because Java is co

The thing is that as hacker is a cool word, people tend to become cool by bending reality. It's the same as renaming Ecmascript to Javascript because Java is cool. However I do believe that yes, having curiosity and passion to modify the inner working of things could be called hacking, the banalization of the term is something sad. Like a 'project for hackers'. Sorry, but you don't need to be a hacker to use it. If this project be necessary to accomplish something at your work, you'll need to learn the minimum, thus not configuring a 'hacker' way of doing it. Of course is somewhat hard to expect someone to agree with me, as I am at 'Hacker News' right now, hehe.