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DaemoXI , I knew you were a new user just by reading your question. This is called hacker news, NOT cracker news. You should read the Guidelines or look around
by Concours 16y ago
DaemoXI , I knew you were a new user just by reading your question. This is called hacker news, NOT cracker news. You should read the Guidelines or look around (front page) to see what the site is about.
- blasdel 16y agoAnd you in turn out yourself as a clueless interloper with your ninnying prescriptivism! ESR's edicts on nomenclature hold no sway over this community, nor really any other. His attempt to parlay any negative implications onto the word 'cracker' have only ever been taken seriously by affected noobs.
- Concours 16y agoThanks for your elaboration, I don't know what you are exactly talking about but I respect your views.
- patrickk 16y agoESR = Eric Stephen Raymond. Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond Here's the "How to Become a Hacker" essay that contain's ESR's definition of a hacker vs. a cracker: http://catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html http://catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html