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So is everyone who becomes famous in their respective field a "hacker"? What were his innovations? Did he come up with some clever new way of doing the news? J
by Scriptor 17y ago
So is everyone who becomes famous in their respective field a "hacker"? What were his innovations? Did he come up with some clever new way of doing the news?
Just because you're good at something doesn't make you a "hacker".
- derefr 17y agoI believe the word people are searching for in this situation is actually "pioneer." He was a pioneering TV news anchor. Hackers like pioneers, whether they end up innovating or simply exploring uncharted territory.
- Scriptor 17y agoThen I'd like to see posts on HN linking directly to such stuff discussing his pioneering. An obituary is not the best way to do that.
- plinkplonk 17y ago"So is everyone who becomes famous in their respective field a "hacker"? " No, but you see, the death of (US based) celebrities is of great interest to hackers worldwide under the "On Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. " guideline, because such deaths are, of course, gratifying to intellectual curiosity. Strangely enough this bit of the guidelines doesn't seem to be having an effect "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. "
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