Pastebin: How a popular code-sharing site became a hacker hangout

Re:Pastebin: How a popular code-sharing site became a hacker... by lepht on Sunday June 05, 2011 @08:58PM (#2623290)

Came here to say that -- Although it has been my perception lately that we've been making progress in stealing the term 'hacker' back.

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Re:Pastebin: How a popular code-sharing site became a hacker... by hvs on Sunday June 05, 2011 @11:42PM (#2623605)

Only to have it co-opted to mean doing anything. "Hey, I just hacked my resume together in Microsoft Word!", "I just hacked dinner together with some pans and some food!", "That was a great hack putting together that email!"

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Re:Pastebin: How a popular code-sharing site became a hacker... by lepht on Sunday June 05, 2011 @11:44PM (#2623613)

Bah, they can have the verb. It's the noun, 'hacker', that doesn't have a satisfactory equivalent, IMO.

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Re:Pastebin: How a popular code-sharing site became a hacker... by Hexarcos on Monday June 06, 2011 @12:43AM (#2623716)

I'd like to verb to stay linked to the name too. I hacked that app in one night, sounds pretty good to me. Blame it on Hollywood.

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