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hacker n. [originally, someone who makes furniture with an axe]
#A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary.
#One who programs enthusiastically (even obsessively) or who enjoys programming rather than just theorizing about programming.
#A person capable of appreciating hack value.
#A person who is good at programming quickly.
#An expert at a particular program, or one who frequently does work using it or on it; as in `a [[Unix]] hacker'. (Definitions 1 through 5 are correlated, and people who fit them congregate.)
#An expert or enthusiast of any kind. One might be an [[:Category:Astronomy|astronomy]] hacker, for example.
#One who enjoys the intellectual challenge of creatively overcoming or circumventing limitations.
#[deprecated] A malicious meddler who tries to discover sensitive information by poking around. Hence `password hacker', `network hacker'. The correct term for this sense is [[Cracker]].
The term ''hacker'' also tends to connote membership in the global community defined by the net (see the [[network]] and [[Internet]] address). For discussion of some of the basics of this culture, see the [[HowTo/BecomeAHacker]] FAQ. It also implies that the person described is seen to subscribe to some version of the hacker ethic (see [[HackerEthik]]).
* '''It is better to be described as a hacker by others than to describe oneself that way.'''
Hackers consider themselves something of an [[1337|Elite]] (a meritocracy based on ability), though one to which new members are gladly welcome. There is thus a certain ego satisfaction to be had in identifying yourself as a hacker (but if you claim to be one and are not, you'll quickly be labeled bogus). See also [[WannaBe]].
This term seems to have been first adopted as a badge in the 1960s by the hacker culture surrounding TMRC and the [[MIT]] AI Lab. We have a report that it was used in a sense close to this entry's by teenage [[radio hams]] and [[electronics tinkerers]] in the mid-1950s
=== Wie-werde-ich-Hacker-HOWTO ===
* http://koeln.ccc.de/prozesse/writing/artikel/hacker-werden.html
* http://koeln.ccc.de/prozesse/writing/artikel/hacker-howto-esr.html
Also read the [[:Category:Hacking|other pages in category Hacking]] and all [[manpages]].
Hacking Begins... http://neworder.box.sk/news/14683
=== Hackers and Painters ===
[http://www.idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm], [http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html],[http://www.idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm]
[[Category:Hacking]]
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