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We'd have more luck just inventing and adopting a new word to replace hacker, any suggestions?
by MattBearman 12y ago
We'd have more luck just inventing and adopting a new word to replace hacker, any suggestions?
- artumi-richard 12y agoCraftsman or Artisan strike me as a good place to start.
- waterfowl 12y agooh yes venerated software 'craftsmen' because we don't have enough ego as programmers.
- sp332 12y agoIn some countries, e.g. Canada, you can get a serious Software Engineering degree that's right up there with mechanical engineering etc. In fact, you're not allowed to call yourself a software engineer without that degree.
- sschueller 12y agoI always saw hacker as a computer security term (so did popular culture) and not a term for tinkering/making. This community is using the wrong term not the media.
- sp332 12y agoI think we already have words for these people. Criminal and suspect cover the general case. To get more specific we have vandal, thief, industrial spy, stalker, fraudster, and so on. I guess there are some newish crimes - virus wrangler and DDoS participant? They're so different it's hard to make an umbrella term for them.