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Reading 10: King of the Ball

Towards the early phase, Linus had a few interesting things to deal with regarding Linux. First, the Linux community had to deal with some Boston lawyer who trademarked the word Linux. Next, Linus had to deal with people from the Linux community who were incredibly worried about…

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Apr 27, 2019

Reading 09: Birth of a Nerd OS

I guess I can see a couple similarities between me and Linus. Like him, I was always one of the stronger math students in my class, and people would go to me for help from time to time (though probably not as often as him). Like him, I was also not particularly fond of…

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Apr 1, 2019

Reading 07: The Noosphere

To a degree, I think that people are driven to participate in open source largely because it gives them a sense of community. The open source community connects you with other like minded and driven individuals. Some are drawn to it because it gives a level of freedom that is harder…

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Mar 25, 2019

Reading 06: The Cathedral and the Bazaar

For a cathedral model of of software development, software is developed like a cathedral: “carefully crafted by individual wizards or small bands of mages working in splendid isolation, with no beta to be released before its time” (Cathedral-Bazaar)…

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Mar 4, 2019

Reading 05: Startups

I have never really been as enticed about joining a startup as I think most people are. I am not a big risk taker, so the idea that “startups, like mosquitos, tend to be an all-or-nothing proposition” (Wealth) really freaks me out. While I’m not enticed to join them, I think startups are…

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Feb 23, 2019

Reading 04: Programming Languages

I think I can get behind the sentiment that “programming languages are not just technology, but what programmers think in” (Beating the Averages). For me, when I see a problem, I immediately think of how I could implement it in Python or C++. Languages usually have…

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Feb 16, 2019

Reading 03: Nerds as Hackers

To me, it seems like Paul Graham’s description of a hacker works pretty well with Stephen Levy’s description of a hacker. Both imply that their version of a hacker is one who loves to do things because they can and that what they do is what they love above most else. They both…

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Feb 2, 2019

Reading 02: Game Hackers

In the previous generation of hackers (the “true” hackers and the hardware hackers), the hackers cared more about their craft. They loved to explore the computer for exploring’s sake. Hardware hackers and game hackers are similar in that this is not their only goal. Even though a nice…

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Jan 26, 2019

Reading 01: Hardware Hackers

In my opinion, spreading the Hacker Ethic to a wider audience was really important for the course of history. Without the spread of these technologies to a wider audience to explore, think of how different the world would be. Innovation would be much slower if we left it to…

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Jan 19, 2019

Reading 00: True Hackers

From my impression of the reading, it seems that to Levy, a hacker is someone whose main goal is to understand something. They will do this by playing around with it, and ultimately, in seeking that knowledge, they may push that very thing to a whole new level because of their…

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