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like the word "hacker", which on Hacker News is widely understood in its correct meaning You'd be surprised. Here's part of just such a conversation for a coup
by EliRivers 10y ago
like the word "hacker", which on Hacker News is widely understood in its correct meaning
You'd be surprised. Here's part of just such a conversation for a couple of years ago; I've always thought "hacker" without qualifiers meant "person who can code"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9790316 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9790316
Other terms commonly used here with wildly different meanings being applied include "liberal", "feminism" and "capitalism". Screaming matches abound... :)
- lucb1e 10y agoI was thinking the same while typing that (that due to being somewhat mainstream, "Hacker" News might not be understood for what it is). I personally use the catb.org definition[1], which is quite broad and lists 8 definitions -- if you count the 'deprecated' use of referring to 'computer criminal', which I do count as one of the popular definitions. [1] http://catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacker.html http://catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacker.html