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on Feb 7, 2009
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Poll: Atheist, Deist, Theist?
I never call myself a hacker, because when I studied ESR's writings I was educated about the fact "that no one is a hacker until another hacker calls him so".
(The antithesis to this attitude is, one word, "lifehacker".)
davidw
on Feb 7, 2009
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I concur, but I wanted to get the point across as succinctly as possible, without going off on that particular tangent.
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(The antithesis to this attitude is, one word, "lifehacker".)