[LUAU] Linux-Hackers-onMac

Jim Thompson jim at netgate.com
Sat Apr 22 12:52:18 PDT 2006


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.





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