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Seconded. Things have changed not just technologically, but socially. The "hacker" thing is just about dead. A horde of people who do startups to get rich and a
by pekk 11y ago
Seconded. Things have changed not just technologically, but socially. The "hacker" thing is just about dead. A horde of people who do startups to get rich and act like hotshots are consuming its stiffening corpse. It's a completely toxic scene that will destroy the motivation and self-esteem of anyone who came into this out of passion and taught themselves.
- eru 11y agoDon't look for people who call themselves `hackers'. Look for people who solder. :)
- chris_wot 11y agoMan, I wish there were some hackers in Sydney who I could chat with about hacking away at LibreOffice :( IRC is great, and the people who hang out at Freenode's #libreoffice-dev are amazing, but what I would do for some actual RT face-to-face discussion... My wife would also be thankful, because she is the most basic computer user and frankly she doesn't care about C++ classes, pointers, the standard template library, unit tests or anything to do with refactoring.
- eru 11y agoI can try and see whether any of my coworkers are interested. (I am working in Sydney.)