Was Leonardo DaVinci a Hacker?
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As a tinkerer, thinker and universally curious mind, he definitely was a hacker, like Archimedes centuries before, and Daedalus in the mist of time; like that guy who for the first time made a tool from a couple of stones by hitting them together, even farther away from us.
That is a good question. If a non-programmer can be a hacker that takes me back to the first of our ancestors who hacked his body and stood up to give us our first huge breakthrough: bipedality. Said that, I think Leonardo DaVinci was a Mitnick of his age.
Of course he is a hacker if you redefine hacker like that. This is just a semantical question.
2+2 also equals 5 if you redefine the symbol 2 to stand for 2.5.
2+2 also equals 5 if you redefine the symbol 2 to stand for 2.5.
He is the archetype.
To me it seems to be more about the spirit of invention, willingness to work at something when your not sure of the outcome. Perhaps a hacker is just an inventor in the digital age.
If that's true then I am definitely a hacker. If not, and if hacker must write code then... sadly, I am not a hacker, at least not a very good one. But if being hacker is about invention then I am a super hacker! While I am able to code html/css/js at a novice level my abilities are really about invention. So I wonder and ask everyone: Can a non programmer be a hacker?