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I'm a Hacker and an Engineer. I'll be damned if I stop using either title just because they were sullied by criminals, confused by the press, or misunderstood
by cydonian_monk 15y ago
I'm a Hacker and an Engineer. I'll be damned if I stop using either title just because they were sullied by criminals, confused by the press, or misunderstood by the public.
[Late Edit] I was rather suprised by the implication that the term hacker came from the M.I.T. model rail club. As a model railroader I've never heard the term used in the community. Bash (ie: kitbash) is way more popular.
- Symmetry 15y agoThey also originated a bunch of other words, like using foo as a metasyntactic variable. http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/T/TMRC.html http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/T/TMRC.html
- cydonian_monk 15y agoInteresting. Thanks. I really should read Levy's book one of these days... I've only got three copies of it.
- erikpukinskis 15y agoYou are a model railroader and software engineer who vehemently defends his identity as a hacker, and you own three unread copies of Hackers? s/will wish I had done it years ago when I/should/
- cydonian_monk 15y agoValid point. Considering two of those three copies are electronic, I have increasingly few excuses.... Going to move it up in the rotation.