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This may be just me, but I think we should stop attributing all favorable qualities of a person to the label 'hacker'. Being a hacker's good and all, but prepen
by yan 17y ago
This may be just me, but I think we should stop attributing all favorable qualities of a person to the label 'hacker'. Being a hacker's good and all, but prepending 'hacker' to everything that's interesting isn't exactly accurate.
- CamperBob 17y agoTrue enough, but Feynman's certainly entitled to the "hacker" honorific, same as Woz or Felsenstein or Stallman or any of the other usual suspects.
- Radix 17y agoI agree and argue that it is against the guidelines due to 'hacker' being gratuitous. Either the submissions stands on its own merit or it falls. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=728020 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=728020