Great hackers create great works from within, not from their tools or their environment. Their core competencies are things like relentless self-improvement, no

Great hackers create great works from within, not from their tools or their environment. Their core competencies are things like relentless self-improvement, not the use of a particular editor or a particular OS. The author's list of core competencies (fast typing, command line, vim, Linux) sounds more like a list of cultural traits.