Agree, mostly. Smelly assholes are a dime a dozen; talented hackers with such a colorful story are rare. It isn't very hackerish to focus on a boring, easy, a

Agree, mostly. Smelly assholes are a dime a dozen; talented hackers with such a colorful story are rare. It isn't very hackerish to focus on a boring, easy, and unstimulating aspect of the man rather than the parts we could draw inspiration from. (Unless, that is, the people focusing on his bad behavior are doing so because they are learning not to behave that way themselves. That at least would make sense.) On the other hand, what can we really learn from the Wikipedia article? It's great to be bright and accomplished, and we should strive to be so ourselves? The phone system used to run on tones? I think most of us know that stuff already. Maybe that's why people are resorting to gossip.