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Re:I Hit $115k/Month with a Status Quo Improvement by nikanj on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @07:46PM (#19213529)
Words mean what the majority of people take them to mean. The fight for Hacker vs Cracker was lost well before the turn of the millennia.
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Re:I Hit $115k/Month with a Status Quo Improvement by realbarack on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @08:06PM (#19213628)
What? No, words mean different things in different contexts. For example, to most people a "graph" means a thing with an x and y axis, but to computer scientists it means a thing with nodes and edges.

So yeah, in certain contexts hacker means someone who breaks into computers. In the context of this site (and MIT culture where the term came from) it means someone who draws on their creativity to make something cool.

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Re:I Hit $115k/Month with a Status Quo Improvement by PakG1 on Thursday February 21, 2019 @12:25AM (#19214761)
A niche population vs the general population. When paths cross, who wins? For matters of communication, usually the general population.
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Re:I Hit $115k/Month with a Status Quo Improvement by cellularmitosis on Thursday February 21, 2019 @12:03AM (#19214684)
The fight happened on multiple fronts. Yes, it was lost on cnn.com, but it wasn’t lost in the comment section of HN.
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Re:I Hit $115k/Month with a Status Quo Improvement by rhizome on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @08:59PM (#19213904)
Do you mean to imply that prescriptivists are completely illegitimate?
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