There’s an older term,tinker, that’s widely defined in these same three dictionaries using words like “repair”, “adjust”, and “improve”. It’s thought to have first appeared in the 1500s, and it seems relevant still today. Its definition is similar to how our HackerOne community ...
Just what is a hacker, anyway? Can you define this elusive term in a way that clarifies while also intriguing the kids?
Just what is a hacker, anyway? Can you define this elusive term in a way that clarifies while also intriguing the kids?Design Contests & CompetitionsDatasheets Com
The term `hacker' also tends to connote membership in the global community defined by the net. 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. Hacker...
While Atomic CSS has been the title of an open source project which originated with Thierry’s original article, the term itself applies to the architectural philosophy, not any one particular variation(see below). Variations of Atomic CSS ...
So, when we use the term "weapons grade," what we mean is a cyber threat that's hard to detect, that's been wielded by a foreign government, a foreign armed force, or a foreign intelligence service -- the way a foreign government wields a weapon. That's what we’re...
Indeed, with the transition to the DSM-5, all behaviorally defined subtypes have been subsumed by the umbrella term autism spectrum disorder, allowing for identification of subtypes more closely aligned to biological mechanisms (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). The genetic etiology of ASD is ...
It is also widely used of people in the mainstream sense of “in an extremely unfortunate situation”. The term was popularised by fighter pilots refering to being hosed by machine gun fire (date?). Usage in hackerdom dates back to CMU in the 1970s or earlier.“Acronyms and ...