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That the old MIT. For the past 15 years MIT leadership has been dedicated to destroying the creative hacker spirit.
by gowld 6y ago
That the old MIT. For the past 15 years MIT leadership has been dedicated to destroying the creative hacker spirit.
- mrgordon 6y agoMelodrama much? It’s still one of the most creative and amazing places to meet hackers (or become one) in the world
- p_l 6y agoA lot of MIT "myth" for me, daj when I was trying to get in, was that they would do a lot of things internally and dogfood - for example, project athena, using that as basis for many other things, etc. Recently I heard from some fresh MIT grads that a lot of that is now pushed to outsourcing and same cookie-cutter approach.
- GeorgeTirebiter 6y agoEvidence?
- extra88 6y agoI’m not agreeing with the premise but MIT’s disavowal of Star Simpson when she was arrested in 2007 could be evidence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Simpson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Simpson
- GeorgeTirebiter 6y agoYes, choosing the Christian tradition, MIT seems to have acted like Peter denying knowledge of Jesus. But, like Peter ("The Rock") it seems as if neither MIT nor Star is worse for the wear; in fact, her email is still listed as <I-won't-publish-this>@mit.edu in the alum directory! Not @alum.mit.edu, but @mit.edu. Thanks, I had forgotten about her, at the time I thought "good for her! doing nothing wrong". ALSO, fwiw, she lived in the two campus housing units that, shall we say, are meant for those not on the 'straight and narrow' path. Not an excuse; praise. I might have lived in one of them, too... ;-)