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Has anyone actually tried to implement Ranums ideas?
by walter_bishop 10y ago
Has anyone actually tried to implement Ranums ideas?
- bmer 10y agoYeah, that's key. If the ideas were implemented, and then didn't work, we could say that "it's a dumb idea" (because it didn't work). Except, things are pretty much the same, or even worse if one considers his point on perception of hacking: "hacker culture" has become even "cooler", and strangely synonymous with "freedom".
- yellowapple 10y ago> and strangely synonymous with "freedom". That's because this synonymousity (is that a word?) was co-opted from a different definition of "hacker" (i.e. in the "Jargon File" sense of "someone who demonstrates creative ingenuity"); in that sense, having the freedom to tinker with things is strongly desirable to someone possessing the "hacker ethic". 'Tis one of the side-effects of the term "hacker" having multiple meanings, for better or (in my opinion) worse.