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I've always loved this story as a tribute to the early hacker ethos. So easy to forget how high up the stack we live these days. There are a few other gems at
by agentwiggles 4y ago
I've always loved this story as a tribute to the early hacker ethos. So easy to forget how high up the stack we live these days.
There are a few other gems at this site, in the "hacker folklore" appendix.
http://catb.org/esr/jargon/html/index.html http://catb.org/esr/jargon/html/index.html
I like "How to Become a Hacker", and the AI Koans too. Lots of good stuff there. These old pages have a certain biblical magic to them.
I love our field! Long live the hacker.
- zasdffaa 4y agoThanks, I'll read your link but I must dispute your enthusiasm: "It took me two weeks to figure it out" Leaving a no-documentation time bomb for your successor is not to be celebrated, nor IMO is it a hackerish thing to do.
- philwelch 4y agoIt’s not to be celebrated, but it’s an extremely hackerish thing to do.
- jandrusk 4y agoI wrote a Twitter bot in Python that tweets one of the Hacker Dictionary Words of Day once a day. https://twitter.com/hashtag/hackdict?src=hashtag_click https://twitter.com/hashtag/hackdict?src=hashtag_click