--- "D. Hageman" [email protected] wrote:
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Jack wrote:
--- "D. Hageman" [email protected] wrote:
... I do have some reverence for the title as it was given to people who had done a good hack. You don't go around telling people that you were hacker ... as well ... that would just be bragging.
Well, that could be true in some sense. Telling the world that you have a certain skill could be considered bragging, or simply being informative. Telling everyone you meet all the time that you have a certain skill would certainly be bragging.
I love your definitions though ... If you get a moment, stop by a book store and pick up a 2005 dictionary and see if the they agree with you. ;-) They are the language experts ... not me. :-)
http://alum.mit.edu/ne/whatmatters/200304/hack.html
This is where I get my definition from. There are many
to choose from and most or all dictionaries are probably missing quite a few of them; I question the credentials of some of those experts who write dictionaries. I've often found mistakes in word meanings in dictionaries,; which is inevitable when a language adopts foreign words and the "experts" don't understand the language or are not antive speakers, or
when words have foggy "at best" sources from which to find the meaning. But if it's written in print it must
be true, eh? Again we are faced with the truism that word meanings change.
I naturally got your point (sorry that you misunderstood my point of taking to a level of absurdity). Of course calling oneself a hacker in certain groups can elicit the type of response you speak of. That doesn't necessarily negate one and being a hacker. If you walk into a room full of well-known hackers and you are unknown to them and call yourself a hacker, well what would you expect?
But, then I'm an arrogant Irishman. ;')
slan, Brian Densmore
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