the word hacker (and the associated hack, hackfest, and hackathon) as if haphazardly chopping something into little bits or prying your way into an unauthorized system is a good thing.
I’m a boring programmer (and proud of it)
Dan Kim
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You are misinformed about the meaning of that word. Read https://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/hacker.html