Hacker in Silicon Valley type circles in recent years come to mean someone who moves fast, break stuff, and makes it work in some cases. In others, someone who

Hacker in Silicon Valley type circles in recent years come to mean someone who moves fast, break stuff, and makes it work in some cases. In others, someone who is inventive and figures out how to get things to work. I'm sure there are a few others. Some will proudly wear the badge and call themselves hackers because of the above. Facebook is huge on the term itself, even getting themselves the vanity address 1 Hacker Way. Unfortunately, a huge chunk of the world does in fact view the word hacker very negatively like your manager and even in some reports I've come across, the authorities you don't want messing with you. For these reasons, I try to stay away from ever calling myself a hacker of any kind. It's a term. It can mean whatever you claim it to but it won't matter if others don't see it that way, it causes confusion, or at the end of the day means nothing to anyone else but you. After all, the only person that cares is the person claiming the title.