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Well as a hacker, boredom is the enemy and we’re always at war with boredom. For a hacker, boredom is a form of death.
by liberia 4y ago
Well as a hacker, boredom is the enemy and we’re always at war with boredom. For a hacker, boredom is a form of death.
- ta988 4y agoNot my experience. I'm happy to hack things so I have more alone space and time too. I don't see the two opposed at all.
- GrifMD 4y agoThis sounds like a quote from Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash.
- switchbak 4y agoWell, some hackers are also Buddhists, which don't tend to view boredom like that.
- NovaVeles 4y agoAnd that is how we get Bodhi Linux. ;)
- xcambar 4y agoAs a hacker, boredom is a powerful motivator and creator.
- a123b456c 4y agoMotivation to explore/create <> motivation to avoid boredom. "enemy" ... "at war with" ... "death" ... such metaphors.
- tjr225 4y agoAs a hacker,
- corobo 4y agoI gotta disagree here. Boredom is where all my ideas come from. Boredom is the catalyst to wondering how Xyz works. Boredom is taking an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem, and then realising you can put a front end on that and do it as a service for people who don't have that skillset. No boredom, no hacking.