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See also: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacker.html http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacker.html hacker: n. [...] 6. An expert or enthusiast of any kind
by enzanki_ars 10y ago
See also: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacker.html http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacker.html
hacker: n.
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6. An expert or enthusiast of any kind. One might be an astronomy hacker,
for example.
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- dragonwriter 10y agoTangentially, abusing code blocks for quotes is ugly on desktop and basically unreadable on mobile (the latter because it prevents proper reflowing based on screen width.)
- enzanki_ars 10y agoFixed the code block. I used an 80 character line limit, but I forgot phones have far less than that. Thank you for the reminder.
- falava 10y agoSee also this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacks_at_the_Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacks_at_the_Massachusetts_Ins... > Hacks at the MIT are practical jokes and pranks meant to prominently demonstrate technical aptitude and cleverness Edit: And this... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_culture > Therefore, the hacker culture originally emerged in academia in the 1960s around the MIT's Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC) and MIT AI Laboratory. > Richard Stallman explains about hackers who program: > What they had in common was mainly love of excellence and programming. They wanted to make their programs that they used be as good as they could. They also wanted to make them do neat things. They wanted to be able to do something in a more exciting way than anyone believed possible and show "Look how wonderful this is. I bet you didn't believe this could be done."