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Hacker: "a person who uses computers to gain unauthorized access to data." This word is not a good connotation, and a company that's an online/mobile payment g
by daveheq 10y ago
Hacker: "a person who uses computers to gain unauthorized access to data."
This word is not a good connotation, and a company that's an online/mobile payment gateway buying a company with "hacker" in its name that doesn't seem to understand the definition of the word "hacker" doesn't look good.
It wouldn't matter to me what IndieHackers did, I would have passed them up just because they use a nefarious word in their name without understanding how it's used.
- kasbah 10y agoWhom are you quoting? It's really confusing as I thought you must be quoting the article. Surely if you are commenting on a site called Hacker News you know there is more than one definition of "Hacker".
- trcollinson 10y agoYou do realize you are posting this comment on a site called Hacker News? https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hacker https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hacker Also just to be thorough there is the dictionary definition of hacker. Your definition came in at 4th place.
- eon1 10y agoTechnically such a person should be called a cracker, no? A hacker is just someone who hacks on things. Where is this pop definition from?
- edem 10y agoI don't know where did you get that quote from but it describes "crackers". This is what hackers are all about: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
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- dmingoddd 10y agotroll level extreme is all I can think about.. If thats not the case then clueless is the only other way to describe this.