If I were asked to choose between the “true hackers” and the “hardware hackers” for my favorite type of hackers, I think I would have to go with “hardware hackers.”
Let me start by saying when I first heard the term “magic cauldron”, this is not the cauldron I thought of. Last semester in my “Travels to Otherworlds, New Worlds, and Medieval Holy Lands” class, we read the…
I don’t know where to start with Paul Graham anymore.
Usually, when I describe a programming language, I compare it to a real language, like Spanish, French, or Italian. One of my favorite jokes I’ve ever heard (which I feel like I’ve mentioned in an ethics blog before) was when my friends and I…
I’m very conflicted when I think about the idea of a hacker or a “true hacker.” I’m even more conflicted when this “true hacker” is the one depicted by Steven Levy in his book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution. All week I’ve been pinballing between I like…
In the 1980s, Apple Computer is described as “a company that symbolized how the products of hacking-computer programs which are works of art.” This seems wildly different from the Apple we all know today, AKA super fricking proprietary. Obviously, there’s a reason…
The first thing ESR reminds me of in his essays on The Cathedral and the Bazaar is René Descartes of “I think, therefore I am” fame. When I was younger (AKA ninth grade), I really liked Descartes. I did a project on him and read his Discourse on the Method and he had some…
