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element_4 | 12 years ago | on: I've been programming since I was 10, but I don't feel like a "hacker"

I don't know if I ever thought "hacker" was only a term for someone who has been programming for 10+ years. I'm about to graduate from college, and I started programming my freshman year. I unfortunately never got to see the beauty and joys of programming until then, and it does suck a little bit. But does that automatically not make me a hacker?

Yet, I am arguably successful. I got a job offer from Amazon at the start of my senior year and took it, and of course, I eventually want to start my own company that's why I'm on this site. I understand the stigma because I personally have never told anyone I only started programming in college. I've never been asked either. I love playing around with new languages and learning all I can about software, but I don't feel I'm that far behind people who started programming early if even behind at all.

We need to stop acting like people who have been programming since kids have a huge advantage. It is much more about what you constantly put in, and there are numerous other ways to be a hacker then just programming. Most people who didn't program might already have the "hacker" in them and just need to attach the programming element of it.

element_4 | 12 years ago | on: How The Post covered the ‘grand social experiment’ of the Internet in 1988

The best part was definitely the last couple paragraphs. No commercial advertisement. We've strayed a little since then :-).

element_4 | 12 years ago | on: HP Chromebook 11

Preorder is available on Amazon for the 64 gigabyte version.

element_4 | 12 years ago | on: Cue is Shutting Down

Is this the company that had that cool terminal adventure programming challenge?