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The defining characteristic of hacker culture is the awe of beautiful code. When the unforeseen side effects from feeding a program with edge case input are as
by martinkallstrom 16y ago
The defining characteristic of hacker culture is the awe of beautiful code. When the unforeseen side effects from feeding a program with edge case input are as deeply gratifying as these, it instills a sense of beauty and awe of the underlying code.
As is shown by the number of upvotes, people don't come to HN to educate themselves. They come here to be awed. Education is a side effect.
- jamesbritt 16y ago"The defining characteristic of hacker culture is the awe of beautiful code." Not for me. I find the defining characteristic of hacker culture to be the inventive re-purposing of things. Google Beatbox is exemplary of this.