On 21/04/2011 23:36, Westley Martínez wrote:
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 05:11:32PM +0100, MRAB wrote:
On 21/04/2011 14:58, Westley Martínez wrote:
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....
As I understand it, "hacking" is about not doing the job "properly".
When trying to make something, a hacker will use the equivalent of duct
tape to hold things together.
A computer hacker doesn't write the requirements of the software or
draw Jackson Structured Programming diagrams, etc, but just thinks
about what's needed and starts writing the code.
That's a cowboy coder.
A cowboy coder is someone who's bad at coding, a hacker is someone
who's good at it.
--
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
