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June 29th, 2009, 09:23 PM
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Originally Posted by VonNemo19  Information you should probably not post on an information superhighway bill board. | There are different kinds of hackers .... Read for example What is hacker? - a definition from Whatis.com (but skip the advert) Hacker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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June 29th, 2009, 09:34 PM
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Originally Posted by mr fantastic There are different kinds of hackers .... | I read it. Hmm... I feel that the term has been obscured and cast into oblivion. Why would they not call a person who enjoys programming a programmer?
To be a hacker is certainly taboo, is it not?
used to be anyway. Mayhap I'm gettin' on up there in years. Dang them newfangled hacker folk!
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June 29th, 2009, 09:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Jameson Search engine optimization is a complicated thing and I believe  people who can make careers off of helping websites optimize their status. | So, if I hear you correctly, if I were to - hypothetically, of course - learn a thing or two about S.E.O. and proverbially scratch your back, you would, perhaps, in turn scratch mine? 
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June 30th, 2009, 12:37 PM
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. . . dang it. Should have just kept my mouth shut then. Yes, of course, I mean a hacker is someone that's really good at programming and I'm a better programmer than a mathematician that's all. But I ran into a good example of the searching problem above:
Suppose I wanted to search for the integral: 
Now, how do I find every record with that (indefinite) integral in it and even when the b is different or log instead of ln, Jesus, while I'm at it, how about a cosine or too?
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When I was in college, about 20 B. C. (before computers), a "hacker" was a person who spent all of his time studying. A "hack course" was a course that required a lot of memorization and mindless work while a "hack" was a practical joke. | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode | 
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