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A fine book with a very misleading name. The book is about basic computer science and algorithms.
by huqedato 4y ago
A fine book with a very misleading name. The book is about basic computer science and algorithms.
- AlotOfReading 4y agoIt's not misleading, it's just an older meaning of the word "hacker" and one that still exists in the name of this site. Hacker's delight is a spiritual successor to the HAKMEM memo from the 70s. Guy Steele even wrote the foreword.
- night-rider 4y agoReminded me of Smokers Delight by Nightmares on Wax: https://www.last.fm/music/Nightmares%20on%20Wax/Smokers%20Delight https://www.last.fm/music/Nightmares%20on%20Wax/Smokers%20De...
- fknorangesite 4y agoAnd Rapper's Delight before that.
- sjamaan 4y agoAnd Turkish Delight before that
- SeanLuke 4y agoThe term hacker has a long and storied history. A hacker is someone who makes hacks. A hack is a thing, typically a piece of code, which must be appreciated for its aesthetic beauty, regardless of whether it's particularly useful. [This term was obviously originally used sarcastically]. People strove to become hackers. It was a badge of honor. In the 1980s the term "hacker" was possibly conflated with "cracker" by stupids in the media, and came to mean a software pirate or kid who broke into the Pentagon. But the proper meaning still hasn't been lost with the graybeards among us.
- xhevahir 4y ago> In the 1980s the term "hacker" was possibly conflated with "cracker" by stupids in the media, I think it's not necessarily due to stupidity that media outlets eschewed the term "cracker."
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- brianrisk 4y agoI hear all of you about how it's not misleading, but I must admit that when I clicked on this link I was expecting a different kind of book.