This article seems to highlight the worst of hacking and not the best. “Hacker” to me can mean two things: 1, a person who comes up with quick and dirty solutions to problems, and the second is a desire to understand the way things work internally, and exploit them, for better understanding. The idea of “retiring the hacker ideal” is silly. Both have their place, but maybe we need to talk about the pros and cons of both instead of reveling in absolutism.