Funny, I was just today thinking about the overuse of another word: "hacker", after seeing another job posting here for a programmer, but using that word. It's

Funny, I was just today thinking about the overuse of another word: "hacker", after seeing another job posting here for a programmer, but using that word. It's been abused so much that I am not even sure what it means any more. But, when I read the job descriptions, there's generally nothing beyond a standard programmer that is being sought. If every programmer is now supposedly a hacker, then what's the point of the word? Smells more like companies just trying to sound cool, which of course has the opposite effect and is annoying to boot.