[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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