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www.haxx.se: "Haxx is a bunch of friends who work as software developers and hackers in Sweden" Yep, that'll do it.
by bodas 8y ago
www.haxx.se:
"Haxx is a bunch of friends who work as software developers and hackers in Sweden"
Yep, that'll do it.
- mehrdadn 8y agoYeah, had the exact same thoughts here. Using names like that is just asking for trouble.
- tempestn 8y agoProbably true, but also ridiculous.
- cyberferret 8y agoI'm old enough to remember when "hacker" was a term of respect and awe for people with top notch technical skills. Then again, I have come across many Americans who think "boffin" is a derogatory/negative term too...
- windows_tips 8y agoThat's probably because it's often used to describe lawyers, which have a pretty notorious representation, as a whole.
- colanderman 8y agoThat's because the US has an insidious, persistent, and wide-spread strain of anti-intellectualism. I can think of no time prior to college outside my home when being smart was actually considered "cool". In the US, "cool" is bossing other people around, and smart people get in the way of that. It's why Presidents like GWB purposefully put on a "dopey" persona, and it works. When I first heard "boffin" I too thought it was derogatory, because, why would someone use a slang term to describe someone as smart if it wasn't in a snarky or derogatory manner?
- starmftronajoll 8y agoAmericans instinctively assume “boffin” is derogatory because it’s totally absent from American parlance (iOS autocorrects it to “bogging” in US), so without the cultural context it just sounds like a goofy word, like “doofus.” In an American context, it’s not a word that sounds as if it’s being spoken with admiration, so the true meaning is counterintuitive.
- tluyben2 8y agoBut when someone says/texts me a word I do not understand, I look it up including the contexts it is used in. I do not immediately, from the sound of a word I never heard, assume someone is calling me an idiot. Doing so actually makes you an idiot. I do not understand how it seems logical to assume that me speaking the English I have learned in school (which is the Queens English when I was young in the Netherlands) is somehow interpreted by someone with a limited vocabulary as derogatory.
- perl4ever 8y agoI associate it with The Register. A lot of British slang sounds silly to Americans.[1] Construing it as derogatory is not an expression of American anti-intellectualism. It's the opposite - the term sounds to us like it's making fun of smart people especially due to certain writers overusing it. [1] A parody of this: https://www.memecenter.com/fun/3500907/my-face-when-americans-call https://www.memecenter.com/fun/3500907/my-face-when-american...
- crtasm 8y agoDon't believe I've seen the word anywhere but El Reg for a long time. When I first heard samples from The Warriors (years before I saw the film) I misheard "Good news, boppers" as "Good news, boffins". I have never gained employment as a radio DJ.
- Torgo 8y agoHow old are you? By 1983 "hacker" already had negative connotations. >vintage coder woops, my apologies, carry on.
- lawrencegs 8y agoAnd here we are discussing this on HACKER NEWS :))))
- incompatible 8y agoDon't think I'll be adding this "social media" account information to any visa request.
- gruez 8y agothen you'll be committing a felony
- bodas 8y agoWho could possibly remember every forum they have created an account on?
- lgregg 8y agoBut he remembered this one and is saying he won’t list it.
- incompatible 8y agoI'll probably have forgotten by the time my visa application comes around.
- incompatible 8y agoBetter that than be denied.
- nothrabannosir 8y agoNot if you don’t consider it social media. Which I don’t. If anything , given the average level of discourse here, I’d say this is anti-social media.
- nhebb 8y agoTo anyone who thinks this is ridiculous, try browsing the search results from the Google News tab: https://www.google.com/search?q=hacker&tbm=nws https://www.google.com/search?q=hacker&tbm=nws In the US, it would be unusual to find someone outside of tech circles who thinks the term "hacker" means something non-malicious.