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Follow up info from KAT
KAT! sent this along for ECE912 folks she lectured to last week. She was talking about Paul's thoughts that Hackers had more in common with Painters.
Good Bad Attitude
To the popular press, "hacker" means someone who breaks into computers. Among programmers it means a good programmer. But the two meanings are connected. To programmers, "hacker" connotes mastery in the most literal sense: someone who can make a computer do what he wants-- whether the computer wants to or not...
Good Bad Attitude
To the popular press, "hacker" means someone who breaks into computers. Among programmers it means a good programmer. But the two meanings are connected. To programmers, "hacker" connotes mastery in the most literal sense: someone who can make a computer do what he wants-- whether the computer wants to or not...