On Apr 21, 2006, at 11:10 PM, Jimen Ching wrote:
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Tim Newsham wrote:
Why label intelligent knowledgeable OS capable individuals
"Hackers,"
As a tribute to their skill? As in "he's so skillful at making
chairs
that he can hack one out of a block of wood using just an axe"?
More like people believe that software engineering is a manual
labor type
work, rather than intellectual type work. For instance, you don't
hear
lawyers or doctors hacking at anything. When someone use that term
for
doctors, it is usually meant in a derogatory manner. I.e. 'that
doctor
did a hack job on his patient.'
My hacker friends have oft described good doctors who didn't put on
too many airs as "hacker doctors".
its a culture thing.
