"hackers"

[Richard Vickery]

On Apr 24, 2013 8:05 PM, "Mark Eggers" <mdeggers at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 22:54:07 -0400, Digimer wrote:
>
> > On 04/23/2013 10:42 PM, Richard Vickery wrote:
> >> Does anyone care to help me change the negative connotation that the
> >> outside world has of this term, one step at a time? The CBC just used
> >> the term with a negative frame on the Tuesday, 23 April 2013 30-minute
> >> radio news at about the half-way point. Everyone ought to go to this
> >> link and suggest that they should quit abusing the term.
> >>
> >> http://www.cbc.ca/w6/contact/
> >>
> >> to listen to her abuse of the term, go to the link with "contact"
> >> removed / deleted - before Wednesday, 25 April at UTC 01:00 (PDT 18:00,
> >> in case I did the math wrong).
> >>
> >> Of course, the media are infamous for abusing scientific terms, such as
> >> calling the Higgs boson the god particle - a term scientists loathe -
> >> so I out not lose too much sleep over it.
> >>
> >> regards,
> >> Richard
> >
> > I've been interviewed a couple of times by CBC and other media. Each
> > time I explain what "hackers" means, and it doesn't really go anywhere.
> > The way I see it, we just need more positive "hacker" and maker stories
> > than there are bad ones. In the mean time, don't let it get to you. Just
> > go do good stuff.
>
> I've given up on this a long time ago - after being interviewed concerning
> RTM's worm. In spite of repeated, detailed explanations, the reporters
> refused to alter their use of the term.
>
> It's annoying, since I've just spent the day hacking (figuring out why
> something didn't follow the documentation, filing a bug, and creating the
> patched documentation). I don't have the source, otherwise I'd attempt a
> patch.
>
> Sadly, technologists are rarely good writers, good writers are rarely
> technologists, and reporters seem to be good at neither.
>
> . . . . just my two cents.
> /mde/
>
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I really like a few suggestions, like signing a document "the happy hacker
with the white hat on". This, and other like sayings, are things that I can
use to educate stupid judges who just got a lucky pick when they Terry to
convict any of us for using the term.
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