Yes, it does make me very sad too. A lot of this community has nothing to do with the hacker philosophy and they'd even think is enough to be a good programmer

Yes, it does make me very sad too. A lot of this community has nothing to do with the hacker philosophy and they'd even think is enough to be a good programmer to be called a hacker (when in fact it's the other way round: you can be quite illiterate with computers and still be a fantastic hacker). This website used to be called "start up news": sometimes I think it was a more appropriate name.