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I think it's because they try to impress their non-technical friends with flashy colourful and matrix-like terminal windows and come off as hackers when in real
by datenarsch 5y ago
I think it's because they try to impress their non-technical friends with flashy colourful and matrix-like terminal windows and come off as hackers when in reality most of them don't even know what a stack overflow is.
- woodruffw 5y agoThis kind of programming elitism is a general bummer: what good does it do to gatekeep “hacker” in this way? Even the context is absurd: we’re on a website that calls itself “Hacker News” but caters chiefly to the relatively narrow and un-hacker-like interests of a handful of overcapitalized investors.
- Lammy 5y agoI took it to mean a second definition describing a particular aesthetic identity, e.g. dark-mode everything, tiny and/or monospace fonts, use of the word "rice" as a verb, etc. I'm totally down for two of those so this isn't said with disdain ;) Perhaps "hax0r" would be more appropriate.