Still, Zuckerberg’s juvenile fascination with hackers never died – or rather, he carried it forward into his new, more mature incarnation. When he finally had a

Still, Zuckerberg’s juvenile fascination with hackers never died – or rather, he carried it forward into his new, more mature incarnation. When he finally had a corporate campus of his own, he procured a vanity address for it: One Hacker Way. He designed a plaza with the word “HACK” inlaid into the concrete. In the centre of his office park, he created an open meeting space called Hacker Square. This is, of course, the venue where his employees join for all-night Hackathons. As he told a group of would-be entrepreneurs, “We’ve got this whole ethos that we want to build a hacker culture.” If there's one thing Facebook is not, it is not representative of the Elder Gods that Zuck, at least according to this piece, nominally idolizes. If he really does, he failed his idols in the most catastrophic way. Hackerdom, to me anyway, is C, Unix, K&R, RMS and (sigh) ESR, Linus, Ian and Debra, GNU, the EFF, and the Grail Quest that is GNU/HURD. It's Freenode; emacs, vi, and the editor holy wars. It's the Woz and a man with a magic whistle. It is _not_ facebook, in any way shape or form.