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From: kaufman@yale.ARPA (Qux the Barbarian)
Newsgroups: net.college
Subject: Re: Programming vs. marks vs. initiative vs. hackers...
Message-ID: <6994@yale.ARPA>
Date: Sat, 15-Dec-84 17:08:48 EST
Article-I.D.: yale.6994
Posted: Sat Dec 15 17:08:48 1984
Date-Received: Mon, 17-Dec-84 03:23:41 EST
References: <331@lll-crg.ARPA> <3147@utah-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: kaufman@yale.UUCP (Qux the Barbarian)
Organization: Yale University CS Dept., New Haven CT
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Summary: Third definition of "hacker"

In article <3147@utah-cs.UUCP> coller@utah-cs.UUCP (Lee D. Coller) gives
us two definitions of the word "hacker".  I have a third:

Hacker - An undergraduate who, at the expense of his grades and especially
	 his sleep, spends the week after an "upgrade" to 4.2 BSD porting
	 all the local tools, and the month after that trying to bring
	 Berkeley's tools into some kind of useful state.  This is done
	 without anything approaching support from the powers that be in
	 the Department.

Am I a hacker?  Yes.
Would I hire one?  Well, if he'll keep working without being paid, why
    waste the money?
Do I have an axe to grind?  Gee, I wasn't being too subtle there, was I?

Anyway, I don't think those who come after me will tear their hair out
at the non-portability of my code.  They'll just wonder how I found the
time to pass my courses, with my name engraved on half the software on
the system....

Off to try and find some time,
    Qux the Hacker

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