Is it just me, or does this guy have his definitions swapped. That, or I've been wrong this whole time: I've always thought of hackers as more freewheeling, possibly with less formal training (or possibly not) who like to play with new technologies and learn by getting their hand dirty.

And I've thought of coders as closer to the traditional definition of 'software engineer'. More formalized education (or possibly not), more formal approach to the process of writing code (planning meetings, standards and practices, etc).

I'm not saying either one is better (both have a lot they bring to the table, and few people are all one or the other, we're usually somewhere on a sliding scale between the two).