I Hit $115k/Month with a Status Quo Improvement

Re:I Hit $115k/Month with a Status Quo Improvement by supermw on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @11:01PM (#19214422)

What year were you born? Because it's pretty clear there must be a generation of programmers who never grew up with the whole hacker mythos of the 90s or early 2000s. Some people's only experience with the word "hacker" is a person who makes cool nice things with code.

There was a time many ages ago when the word "hacker" was reserved only for the most dangerous and reckless breed of computer programmers.

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Re:I Hit $115k/Month with a Status Quo Improvement by ethbro on Thursday February 21, 2019 @08:04AM (#19216538)

I think you might have your timelines a bit reversed.

Afaik: From the 1960s to early-80s, it meant someone who creates. From the mid-80s to mid-00s, it meant someone who breaks into systems (driven by media reporting on FBI prosecution of the first network-enabled cyber crimes). From the mid-00s to now, it seems to be turning the corner again (co-mingled with the rise of maker culture).

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