I've long thought that trying to adopt "hacker" as a professional term was a bad idea. I told friends that I was going to a government hackathon once, and they thought I was going to be arrested.
Why do we have to be hackers? What was wrong with being developers?
Because society took both hacker and developer and changed their meaning.
But the article (and my anecdotal experiences) are proof that this hasn't actually happened. We decided to call ourselves 'hackers', but society as a whole doesn't.
given a choice criminal sounds cooler then wage slave.
I think that's my main problem with "hacker". It's an attempt to be cool.
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I've long thought that trying to adopt "hacker" as a professional term was a bad idea. I told friends that I was going to a government hackathon once, and they thought I was going to be arrested.
Why do we have to be hackers? What was wrong with being developers?
I think it's almost like a secret handshake. If someone understands what I mean when I say "hacker" I respect them a little more.
Because society took both hacker and developer and changed their meaning.
Hackers became criminals and developers were Javabean coding wage slaves... given a choice criminal sounds cooler then wage slave.
Because society took both hacker and developer and changed their meaning.
But the article (and my anecdotal experiences) are proof that this hasn't actually happened. We decided to call ourselves 'hackers', but society as a whole doesn't.
given a choice criminal sounds cooler then wage slave.
I think that's my main problem with "hacker". It's an attempt to be cool.
Developer !== Hacker
Developer != Hacker
!== == Javascript programmer