It seems much easier to use a different word to describe yourself than it will be to convince everyone else to define hacker the same way you do. The whole poi

It seems much easier to use a different word to describe yourself than it will be to convince everyone else to define hacker the same way you do. The whole point of language is to communicate ideas to people. Choosing a word you know in advance your audience is likely to misinterpret doesn't seem like very effective use of language to me.