I think you completely missed the point. Just because an example was a LISP millionaire, doesn't mean you aren't a hacker because you aren't a LISP millionaire.
Your post comes off as if someone said you don't belong, just because they tried to take some of the most famous examples that many people would classify as hackers.
It's like if I showed you a picture of a Ferrari as an example of a car and you said, "oh, I guess my Ford doesn't count as a car, I better just walk from now one".
In my post I said something along the lines of: I mostly tend to feel like an impostor, but maybe I am some kind of hacker according to some definitions. To which jeswin replied (paraphrased) "No, you see, hackers are actually this, that and the other", so I conceded the point that according to jeswin I'm very very far from being a hacker, and so is the vast majority of HN users. I also said earlier that I believe these labels are problematic anyway.
So I think your criticism should probably be addressed at jeswin, Ferrari analogy and all. Personally, I don't really care if I myself or anybody else here is officially considered a hacker | a real man | a successful person, or whatever.
Your post comes off as if someone said you don't belong, just because they tried to take some of the most famous examples that many people would classify as hackers.
It's like if I showed you a picture of a Ferrari as an example of a car and you said, "oh, I guess my Ford doesn't count as a car, I better just walk from now one".