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>it seems like the true hacker ethos is not to swim with the stream I don't think so. The hacker ethos is about being clever and hacking stuff. Hackers don't
by forensic 16y ago
>it seems like the true hacker ethos is not to swim with the stream
I don't think so. The hacker ethos is about being clever and hacking stuff.
Hackers don't do things differently just to be different. They do things differently because they see the world differently. The reason there is a "hacker community" is because hackers meet each other and say "No shit! You do that too! I thought I was the only one!"
Like any good community, it's about commonalities.
- flipbrad 16y agoabsolutely. but groupthink is a well-known phenomenon. hackers are very original people, and originality tends to get lost in large groups, no?
- forensic 16y agoGroupthink is a well known pitfall of any group. But not all groups engage in groupthink. Organizational psychologists talk about ways to reduce and/or avoid groupthink in an organization or community. If you believe that Hacker News is suffering from groupthink, you should present evidence of that, and then the community could take action to try and reduce it. Personally I don't see it. I strongly doubt anyone is deleting people off their twitter based on this submission.