On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 06:02:08AM +0200, Stefan Behnel wrote: > Ben Finney, 20.04.2011 02:06: > >Dan Stromberg writes: > > > >>On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 4:03 PM, geremy condra wrote: > >>>When you say 'hacking', you mean.... ? > >> > >>Presumably he meant the real meaning of the word, not what the press > >>made up and ran with. > > > >To be fair, the press already had its own pejorative meaning of “hack” > >before the engineering and computing term > > Not anywhere outside of the English language that I'm aware of, > though. In German, it's a computing-only term that's used in both > contexts by those who understand why the pointer is moving over the > screen when moving the mouse, and almost exclusively in a bad > context by those who write news paper articles (and, consequently, > by those who innocently read them). > > Stefan > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
O Lord, I'd hope we'd be speaking for English here. But really, hack has always been a negative term. It's original definition is chopping, breaking down, kind of like chopping down the security on someone elses computer. Now I don't know where the term originally came from, but the definition the media uses is quite a fair use. Why should we call ourselves hackers anyways? I don't smoke. I'm no different from anyone else, I just happen to know a lot about computers. Should we call people who know a lot about the economy hackers, too, or perhaps we should call them economists.... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
