On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Cedric Gavage wrote:
Bah le terme hacké est assez amusant ;)
En effet, tu as raison. Notre "zigoto" était plutôt un "script kiddy"
ou "wannabee cracker".
Pour rafaichir la tête de certains autres "zigotos" ;-) :
hacker
<person, jargon> (Originally, someone who makes furniture with an axe)
1. 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.
2. One who programs enthusiastically (even obsessively) or who enjoys
programming rather than just theorizing about programming.
3. A person capable of appreciating hack value.
4. A person who is good at programming quickly.
5. 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.)
6. An expert or enthusiast of any kind. One might be an astronomy
hacker, for example.
7. One who enjoys the intellectual challenge of creatively overcoming
or circumventing limitations.
8. (Deprecated) A malicious meddler who tries to discover sensitive
information by poking around. Hence "password hacker", "network
hacker". The correct term is cracker.
The term "hacker" also tends to connote membership in the global
community defined by the net (see The Network and Internet address).
It also implies that the person described is seen to subscribe to some
version of the hacker ethic.
It is better to be described as a hacker by others than to describe
oneself that way. Hackers consider themselves something of an elite (a
meritocracy based on ability), though one to which new members are
gladly welcome. Thus while it is gratifying to be called a hacker,
false claimants to the title are quickly labelled as "bogus" or a
"wannabee".
9. (University of Maryland, rare) A programmer who does not understand
proper programming techniques and principles and doesn't have a
Computer Science degree. Someone who just bangs on the keyboard until
something happens. For example, "This program is nothing but spaghetti
code. It must have been written by a hacker".
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hack
<jargon> 1. Originally, a quick job that produces what is needed, but
not well.
2. An incredibly good, and perhaps very time-consuming, piece of work
that produces exactly what is needed.
3. To bear emotionally or physically. "I can't hack this heat!"
4. To work on something (typically a program). In an immediate sense:
"What are you doing?" "I'm hacking TECO." In a general (time-extended)
sense: "What do you do around here?" "I hack TECO." More generally, "I
hack "foo"" is roughly equivalent to ""foo" is my major interest (or
project)". "I hack solid-state physics." See Hacking X for Y.
5. To pull a prank on. See hacker.
6. To interact with a computer in a playful and exploratory rather
than goal-directed way. "Whatcha up to?" "Oh, just hacking."
7. Short for hacker.
8. See nethack.
9. (MIT) To explore the basements, roof ledges, and steam tunnels of a
large, institutional building, to the dismay of Physical Plant workers
and (since this is usually performed at educational institutions) the
Campus Police. This activity has been found to be eerily similar to
playing adventure games such as Dungeons and Dragons and Zork. See
also vadding.
See also neat hack, real hack.