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Reading 10: King of the Ball

Successful people make their own luck in the world, but, honestly, I’m not so sure how to feel about this statement. I want to believe that success happens to individuals who work extremely hard and give whatever they are working on their all, but that hasn’t always proven true…

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Apr 22, 2019

Reading 09: Birth of a Nerd OS

Quite frankly, Linus Torvalds’ upbringing and creation of Linux isn’t interesting to me. His upbringing is irrelevant in regard to Torvalds’ creating Linux. Linus created the Linux kernel because he wanted to use the functions of his personal computer that had an 80386…

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Apr 7, 2019

Reading 08: The Magic Cauldron

I am anti-money. I absolutely despise talking about money. It’s such a frustrating topic. No one is actually satisfied while discussing money. I just wish there was more to life than money; it perverts everything we do, and it’s inescapable because money runs the world. But…

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Mar 31, 2019

Reading 07: The Noosphere

Okay, I’ll say it: I only contribute to open source out of obligation or because it benefits me. Is this selfish? Sure, but do we honestly believe that individuals are motivated or driven to contribute to a project if he/she is not benefitting from making the contributions that…

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Mar 24, 2019

Reading 06: The Cathedral and the Bazaar

It’s pretty evident that the future of software development is moving towards the bazaar model of software development. Many companies are leveraging Agile and Scrum methodologies for software development; these methodologies emphasize iterative/frequentative…

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Mar 2, 2019

Reading 05: Startups

Why do we, as a society, value wealth? We are often told that “money doesn’t solve your problems,” but honestly, I cannot think of one problem that money doesn’t solve. In our society, money is power. Just as Graham mentioned in “How to Make Wealth”, “money is a way of moving wealth, and in…

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Feb 23, 2019

Reading 04: Lost in Translation

After learning computer programming languages for several years, I finally decided to learn a “real” language. This semester, I am in First-Year Arabic I. For the most part, I already knew how to speak Arabic, but I wanted to be able to read and write it as well. After…

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Feb 16, 2019

Reading 03: The “Popular” Nerd

According to both Steven Levy and Paul Graham, hackers are disobedient “makers” trying to “make good things.” Graham calls hackers “unruly,” and I find this to be compatible with Levy’s description of a hacker — in both his hackers’ physical descriptions and their hacking…

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Feb 2, 2019

Reading 02: Game Hackers

Steven Levy opens “The Brotherhood” by claiming that “the Hacker Ethic was changing, even as it spread throughout the country” (243). Money, power, and greed tend to corrupt, and while reading, I thought Ken Williams’ greed and unconventional way of embracing the Hacker Ethic would…

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Jan 26, 2019

Reading 01: Hardware Hackers

Unlike the “True Hackers,” the “Hardware Hackers” desired to “let people discover themselves by the Hands-On Imperative” (Levy, 127). That’s not to say that the “True Hackers” didn’t believe in creative expression/discovery through the Hands-On Imperative, because, they did…

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