The 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 q

The 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.