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"There are two types of programmers: perfectionists and hackers [who] just want the thing to fucking work, even at the detriment of the codebase." are you usin
by crashbunny 10y ago
"There are two types of programmers: perfectionists and hackers [who] just want the thing to fucking work, even at the detriment of the codebase."
are you using the term hacker right? unless hacker has changed meaning, I think not.
linus and other kernel programmer who strive to write as correct and maintainable code as possible (at least used to) proudly call themselves hackers, and refer to what they do as hacking.
- kahrkunne 10y agoThe meaning of hacker has kind of changed for some people to be more in the vein of people who write "dirty hacks" or "hack things together" which implies the quick-and-dirty programming the author alludes to. "hacker" means many things to many people, though.
- emodendroket 10y agoI don't know that we really need to quibble over this one word, but since people talk about "hacks" it seems like someone who writes a lot of "hacks" could reasonably be called a "hacker." I'd say this is more of a spectrum than a binary though.