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The Glider: A Universal Hacker Emblem
- cma 18y agoWe need this like politics needed the American flag pin.
- spectre 18y agoCould we wear this as pin?
- PieSquared 18y agoI sense sarcasm, but, being slightly young, don't get the reference to American flag pins. Could you explain? Thanks.
- patio11 18y agoSome American politicians have a habit of wearing a small pin in the shape of an American flag on their lapel. It is an on-again, off-again fashion which became seriously on-again after September 11th. The presence/absence of a flag pin, and stated reasons for the presence/absence, was a political issue in Obama's presidential campaign, among others.
- PStamatiou 18y agoflag pin as stated: http://twitpic.com/50luf http://twitpic.com/50luf
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- silentbicycle 18y agoThis is just asking for a bunch of territorial squabbling about who is a real hacker and who is a poser. Arguments about identity tend to produce lots of heat and very little light. (As to Eric S. Raymond and his incessant volunteering to speak for all hackers: No comment.)
- sketerpot 18y agoIt's also explicitly not asking for that. I quote from TFA: > When you put the glider emblem on your web page, or wear it on clothing, or display it in some other way, you are visibly associating yourself with the hacker culture. This is not quite the same thing as claiming to be a hacker yourself -- that is a title of honor that generally has to be conferred by others rather than self-assumed. But by using this emblem, you express sympathy with hackers' goals, hackers' values, and the hacker way of living.
- nfriedly 18y agoI actually put one of these on my site back when I was 16 and thought it was cool. Apparently someone else didn't think I was 'hacker enough.' It was the only time I ever had my site defaced :/
- mahmud 18y agoIf it makes you feel any better, whoever defaced your site was no hacker either.
- Quarrelsome 18y agoWait.... i've got it! If you think you're a hacker you are definately not a hacker. Is this entry criteria we can agree upon?
- 0xdefec8 18y agoyou must support terrorism _and_ love Windows.
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- akkartik 18y agoI made it my favicon just so rails stopped dropping that whole class of errors into my logs http://akkartik.name http://akkartik.name
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- Oompa 18y agoAwesome. Now I need a patch of it for my backpack, along with my nerd merit badges.
- huhtenberg 18y agoMakes a great bumper sticker too - http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/6499/glider.jpg http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/6499/glider.jpg :) (edit) converted to jpg
- dmoney 18y agoIf hackers use the glider, what are Game of Life enthusiasts supposed to use?
- silentOpen 18y agoSpaceships?
- science4sail 18y agoGame-of-Life Turing Machines?
- aardvark 18y agoBytecode instructions?
- seejay 18y agoNever thought this would be famous in "Hacker News" coz this isn't quite the latest news :D No offense to the people who didn't know about it but isn't this kinda old news to the people aware of the Hacker Culture?
- beta 18y agoI try my very hardest to ignore any notion of "Hacker Culture"
- seejay 18y agoNow if you excuse me, I gotta go and try submitting the "Hacker Manifesto" to Hacker news ;)
- 10ren 18y agoI shall proudly display the absence of this logo to signify my solidarity with non-conformist hackers everywhere.
- seiji 18y agoWe think Very Proper Dog outranks Glider: http://hackerdojo.pbworks.com/f/1242009351/abs-hackerdojo-classy.jpg http://hackerdojo.pbworks.com/f/1242009351/abs-hackerdojo-cl...
- peregrine 18y agoHacker sub-culture doesn't need logos so it can become mainstream and cool.
- pookleblinky 18y agoI always considered a big, threateningly bushy beard to be the de facto symbol of hackerdom. Just try imagining RMS without his beard.
- vertis 18y agoThe definition of 'news' should be googled by anyone who voted this up. This is not recent!