This might get a rise out of some people, but I believe that DHH is completely out of place in that list of hackers, and his response to the question about mathematics makes it painfully obvious.

So many things he says make me ashamed to admit I use Rails for most of my coding these days.

He is different, sure. But no "true hacker" made a better web framework. Perhaps there is something in his mentality we can all learn from.

i agree with both of you, but i agree with tyler more.