Hacker - a type of person interested in exploration, usually of a computer or electrical engineering background. Often misused to describe the steriotypical social outcast who commits criminal intrusions into technological systems for some real or perceived gain; a term unfortunately oftentimes used by such individuals to describe (themselves).
"Hacker" is sometimes used to describe players of NetHack and other related Roguelike games.
A hacker, in golf, can describe one whose golf game is unacceptably below the average par for a course, or mean a duffer, a mediocre player who enjoys playing but makes no serious effort to improve his skill.
Hacker (and Hack) are also terms for a taxicab driver (because a taxicab can be called a hack, a shortened form of hackney carriage).
New York street sign, c. 1963
Hacker has a musical connotation; in small combos, and in middle school, high school, and college jazz band classes all over the English-speaking world, "hacker" means either a musician who plays out of turn or simply a musician who shows off constantly.
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The hacker mind-set is not confined to this software-hacker culture.
Hackers will sometimes do things that may seem repetitive or boring to an observer as a mind-clearing exercise, or in order to acquire a skill or have some particular kind of experience you can't have otherwise.
I observed in the section called “What Is a Hacker?” that being a hacker is partly a matter of belonging to a particular subculture or social network with a shared history, an inside and an outside.
Hackers come piecemeal to struggle against the particular forms in which abstraction is commodified and made into the private property of the vectoralist class.
Hackers come as a class to recognise their class interest is best expressed through the struggle to free the production of abstraction not just from the particular fetters of this or that form of property, but to abstract the form of property itself.
The hacker class is the class with the capacity to create not only new kinds of object and subject in the world, not only new kinds of property form in which they may be represented, but new kinds of relation beyond the property form.
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