On Friday 22 Jan 2010 9:38:53 am Charles Haynes wrote: > Wikipedia is the wrong place to look up the original jargonish meaning > of hack. ESR's editing of the Jargon File is better. > http://www.eps.mcgill.ca/jargon/jargon.html#The%20Meaning%20of%20Hack
The definition in this source written in 2000 involves a degree of self praise as in "You have got to admire us hackers". The ego comes with the word apparently. > Hacking might be characterized as `an appropriate application of > ingenuity'. Whether the result is a quick-and-dirty patchwork job or a > carefully crafted work of art, you have to admire the cleverness that went > into it. That same snootiness of this club of nerds became evident in the way people reacted (with envious horror) to interviews of so called "ethical hackers" - the reaction reminded me of the impotent rage of the Indian being told by a Pakistani of the latter's superiority when the Indian thinks otherwise. Jugaad - apart from being born of necessity has no ego attached to it. You are not required to admire the cleverness that went into it. It appears that an ego is now being created for it as the word is appropriated. shiv
