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How ironic that you say this on Hacker News. That is one of the ideas at the very heart of hacker culture—doing things just because you can.
by ylyn 6y ago
How ironic that you say this on Hacker News.
That is one of the ideas at the very heart of hacker culture—doing things just because you can.
- amelius 6y agoTrue, but these students were following an academic education, not "hacker university".
- ylyn 6y agoWell, they also fulfilled the requirements for the credit (which was to get the raytracing program running bare-metal on their CPU), so if you want to be pedantic about them being in an academic course, then you should honour the original assignment requirements, right?
- unnouinceput 6y agoIt was their free time. You get the idea behind that concept, yes? As in do whatever they want. And they wanted an OS! opposite of let's say drinking in bars trying to pick girls.