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This article feels completely fitting with the hacker mindset. It's about people having a bad user experience. Trying to fix inconveniences and unpleasant exper

This article feels completely fitting with the hacker mindset. It's about people having a bad user experience. Trying to fix inconveniences and unpleasant experiences seems right along the same lines as the hacker ethic and entrepreneurial spirit to me. I'm sorry if you disagree.

DanBC 15y ago
True. There's also interesting discussion to be had about "hacking large bureaucratic systems - building in incentives for polite but effective behaviours or traffic flow analysis or what not.
davidw 15y ago
You're playing 6 degrees of hacker news: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=242484 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=242484 The problem is that these kind of articles breed - first it's this, then it's some other thing, then it's Mitt Romney, then it's Ron Paul, and in the end you're saddled with a lot of politics. And none of it is "intellectually stimulating". When I read the article, it just makes me irritated about the US policies and practices in place, but it's all information I already knew. Also, to me, the "hacker mindset" works a lot better for things you can just go fix, or avoid altogether. Fixing a large, messy, political problem in a large country is anything but that.
- tripzilch 15y ago
  Yeah, politics, that must be it ... if everybody in your country would've just voted for the other guy the problem would've solved itself by now, wouldn't it? You sound exactly like one of those higher educated Chinese college kids arguing that whole censorship thing really isn't as bad as they make it sound ... Or, rather someone defending their abusive husband. "It's just a lot of poltics" == "Sometimes, he's just had a really rough day at work, you know?"
  - icebraining 15y ago
    It's sad how we managed to reduce the concept of Politics to the bickering between parties. Politics is so much more than that. This is politics, and there's nothing wrong with that.
  - davidw 15y ago
    What are you talking about? I'm very involved in politics. Last fall I got to talk for a few minutes in the press room of the Italian equivalent of the White House about this: http://srlfacile.org/ http://srlfacile.org/ (lowering the costs of creating a company in Italy). I'm also passionate about bicycle racing (Milano San Remo tomorrow!) but that doesn't mean I feel a need to talk about it here.

DanBC 15y ago

True. There's also interesting discussion to be had about "hacking large bureaucratic systems - building in incentives for polite but effective behaviours or traffic flow analysis or what not.

davidw 15y ago

You're playing 6 degrees of hacker news: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=242484 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=242484 The problem is that these kind of articles breed - first it's this, then it's some other thing, then it's Mitt Romney, then it's Ron Paul, and in the end you're saddled with a lot of politics. And none of it is "intellectually stimulating". When I read the article, it just makes me irritated about the US policies and practices in place, but it's all information I already knew. Also, to me, the "hacker mindset" works a lot better for things you can just go fix, or avoid altogether. Fixing a large, messy, political problem in a large country is anything but that.

tripzilch 15y ago
Yeah, politics, that must be it ... if everybody in your country would've just voted for the other guy the problem would've solved itself by now, wouldn't it? You sound exactly like one of those higher educated Chinese college kids arguing that whole censorship thing really isn't as bad as they make it sound ... Or, rather someone defending their abusive husband. "It's just a lot of poltics" == "Sometimes, he's just had a really rough day at work, you know?"
- icebraining 15y ago
  It's sad how we managed to reduce the concept of Politics to the bickering between parties. Politics is so much more than that. This is politics, and there's nothing wrong with that.
- davidw 15y ago
  What are you talking about? I'm very involved in politics. Last fall I got to talk for a few minutes in the press room of the Italian equivalent of the White House about this: http://srlfacile.org/ http://srlfacile.org/ (lowering the costs of creating a company in Italy). I'm also passionate about bicycle racing (Milano San Remo tomorrow!) but that doesn't mean I feel a need to talk about it here.