You are a marketer/promoter/pusher. Junior programmers coding on fad frameworks at borderline user level are far from hackers in every possible definition of the word.
I hope everyone who bothered to read this far realizes what an ass you just made of yourself by saying that Darius Bacon is "far from a hacker". He is a consummate hacker. When I noticed that he was spending time at Hacker School I was impressed (and a little envious).
You should make the apology you owe him (and HN, for mucking this thread up with utterly inappropriate personal attacks) and then go study his work.
As the author, I'd welcome tips to make it better. (Though efficient implementation is not a priority since the API hasn't settled.)
Both Jamie's and my work have been high-ranked on HN's front page, for what it's worth; and I'd call the Hacker School facilitators hackers by any reasonable standard.
Indeed, his skill for naming repos may be laughable (ex 'optilamb'), but other 1337 hackers (like some dude named Peter Norvig) are under the impression he qualifies modestly as a hacker.
You are a marketer/promoter/pusher. Junior programmers coding on fad frameworks at borderline user level are far from hackers in every possible definition of the word.