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What is your connection to the hacker culture, if not problem solving?

• unalone 18y ago
  From some lens, my approach could be seen as problem solving. I've always viewed it as more of a creative art: I view the things I create as concepts. "What would happen if a web site worked like this, for instance, then I create every to revolve around that central theme. Some of the stuff I do is geared at problems, but I feel that viewing mistakes as bugs is a very sterile approach and I hate it. I don't have a lot of the traits that go alongside hackers, either. Coding languages don't fascinate me, by-and-large. When I look at a language, I figure out exactly how to get things done and then I don't look at it again. As a result, I don't find much fascination in discussions about programming, which is rare among hackers.
  • ram1024 18y ago
    Stephenson categorized techies into two sub-categories. The forger and the honer. the forger would create new tech, and then abandon it to pursue the next new thing. the honer would forever dabble in non-start tech, envisioning and forcing it to do wildly inventive things that the creator never envisioned. perhaps you two are simply two sides of the same coin.
• Zev 18y ago
  Messing around with things, figuring out how they work and making them do something I want them to do. It's interesting to me. Doesn't really solve any practical problem though.