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>Maybe someday I'll end up being a "hacker". It sounds like you already are.

• todayiamme 16y ago
  That's quite flattering, but no I am not even close to that. I don't even know how to code that well, let alone the myriad of tiny concepts that make up CS. Even if I do reach that level someday. I doubt it that I would proclaim myself a hacker, or anything to that effect. I don't want to spend my life running around claiming credit for things. If someone finds my ideas or code beautiful then they can point it out and I will cherish that moment with them. Yeah, I am crazy like that.
  • blhack 16y ago
    Being a hacker doesn't have anything to do with coding, or computers. My Grandfather was a hacker; he built everything himself and I doubt there was anything in his house that he hadn't taken apart and put back together. He worked in construction, and most of the heavy equipment he used was things he built himself (as in: a bulldozer, a backhoe; earth moving equipment). In early 2000 he started getting into computers (he died shortly thereafter), he is every bit as much a hacker (if not more so) than anybody I've ever met.
    • trafficlight 16y ago
      Hacking isn't even about building things. It's about making things better. And it's about making those things do new things that they were never intended to do.