I really enjoyed the last several posts where i had no idea what was being talked about but it's good to have people with that level of relevant detailed knowledge contributing to a thread.
When we see the term "hacker" a lot of people still think of the way the mainstream press and news reports mis-use the term. It is better to realise that inside the linux community it more usually means something like "clever coder/programmer". Mostly when programmers write code they are just follow standard methods and settle into habits, however most programmers have odd moments when they really grok and have an almost Zen-like "oneness with the code" producing something so beautifully simple and elegant that other code looks like a kludge in comparison, even if it was fairly well produced. Sometimes a hack might be producing a kludge where it wasn't thought possible to get any result at all. One thing about linux is that elegant code is often easily carried through into subsequent releases and kludges gradually get replaced with more elegant code. With Windows programming it is usually difficult to get any overview of any particular chunk of coding so it often remains a kludge. In linux elegant code often results in admiration and respect for the coder. The main thing about "hack" is about producing something very fast or clever or elegant or outstanding in some other way. Regards from Tom :) -- Microsoft has a majority market share https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs