Marcus SchimizziinHackers in the BazaarReading 10: King of the BallThe story of the success of Linux is incredible and relatively unprecedented. Going from a just for fun project of Linus to the most used…Apr 27, 2019Apr 27, 2019
Marcus SchimizziinHackers in the BazaarReading 04: Programming LanguagesI’m pretty fascinated with Paul Graham’s take on programming languages in the three essays “Beating the Averages”, “The Hundred-Year…Feb 23, 2019Feb 23, 2019
Marcus SchimizziinHackers in the BazaarReading 03: Artistic HackeryIn broad strokes (pun intended), Paul Graham’s visions of hackers as akin to painters shares much in common with Stephen Levy’s own…Feb 16, 2019Feb 16, 2019
Marcus SchimizziinHackers in the BazaarReading 02: Shall We Play A Game?In the first section of Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, hackers did their hacking mostly just because it was their passion…Feb 2, 2019Feb 2, 2019
Marcus SchimizziinHackers in the BazaarReading 01: Can Hacker Ethic go mainstream?In the first section of the book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, we get introduced to the first “True Hackers” and everything…Jan 26, 2019Jan 26, 2019
Marcus SchimizziinEthics and Professional Issues — Marcus SchimizziReading 13: You Have to Pay the ~Patent~ Troll TollFirst Things First: What is a Patent?Dec 11, 20181Dec 11, 20181
Marcus SchimizziinEthics and Professional Issues — Marcus SchimizziReading 12: Our Driverless FutureMore than 37,000 people were killed in car crashes in the United States in 2016, as one of our readings from The Atlantic states. Traffic…Dec 11, 2018Dec 11, 2018
Marcus SchimizziinEthics and Professional Issues — Marcus SchimizziReading 11: All Hail Our AI OverlordsOkay, maybe it’s too early to welcome our AI overlords — although Roko may disagree — but the rise of AI is certainly occurring…Dec 11, 2018Dec 11, 2018
Marcus SchimizziinEthics and Professional Issues — Marcus SchimizziReading 10: You Can’t Handle the Truth!You can’t handle the truth!Dec 11, 2018Dec 11, 2018