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I don't believe that hacking is or should be confined to programming. That's pretty funny insofar as it (the verb) is precisely the point not in dispute. Also,
by gruseom 16y ago
I don't believe that hacking is or should be confined to programming.
That's pretty funny insofar as it (the verb) is precisely the point not in dispute. Also, your quote supports what pg said: "hacker" refers to programmers by default, though non-standard usages are possible.
I don't see how this is even an argument. Pick just about any verb; I just thought of "bake". I baked something the other day. Does that make me a baker?
- stuhacking 16y agoI baked something the other day. Does that make me a baker? It means that you baked something. Now, someone might look at it and say "That thing that gruseom baked is really good. Gruseom has the Baker nature." You might then gain respect from other bakes that you made and people consider you a baker. I wasn't attempting to argue with pg - Do people only reply to him in order to stir things up? (I think, perhaps, that I've seen this pattern.) I was only throwing in what I consider to be a good definition of the scope of hacking from someone who has written a lot about the hacker culture (esr).