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Hacking with a Hacker

102 points by reikonomusha 13y ago

tunesmith 13y ago
What's the Buttonhole Trap?
- e3pi 13y ago
  A semi-flat stick with a thread sized-length loop thru a hole at one end, too short to pass over the stick's opposite end, say, loop can be stretched 95% to stick length. By passing the loop through a button-hole and scrunching material, it's possible to loop it around the button-hole. Can be maddening to first time victims. Easy to make. I've witnessed "This is impossible!" more than once. I wish we had a wise-old hacker Bill curmudgeon in the neighborhood.
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    - reikonomusha 13y ago
      A loop of string whose stretched length is 95% that of the stick. The string itself would be of length of approximately 2 * (95% of stick).
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  - p4bl0 13y ago
    This seems odd to be. I honestly think I would have figured this out in a few seconds at most, even if I'm not usually very good at this bind of trick puzzle.
- minikomi 13y ago
  I think this is it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLauBh9Zvg0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLauBh9Zvg0
marcuscreo 13y ago
Wow, I haven't thought of Bill since I read "Hackers"...
AldousHaxley 13y ago
Reading this made me feel good. I feel like not enough hackers in my generation appreciate some of the history surrounding hacker culture. I read Levy's books a million times as an adolescent, and am currently going through "What the Dormouse Said" by John Markoff. A dream of mine has been to write a follow-up to Hackers someday. A book of the same style picking up where Hackers left off in the mid-1980s. It could cover NeXT, GNU/Linux, Netscape/Mosaic, Valve, Google, Facebook, up to modern hacking on the frontier of biology, education, and the rebirth of hardware hacking. I feel like every generation should have a volume similar to Hackers.
- knome 13y ago
  Both of those are excellent reads. "Dealers of Lightning" is another you might want to check out. edit: oops
  - reikonomusha 13y ago
    Just a minor typo; it's "Dealers of Lightning".
zatara 13y ago
"He responded, "when there's something interesting to publish, it'll be published." He seemed to have a sort of disdain for "salami science", where scientific and mathematical papers present the thinnest possible "slice" or result possible." Very inspiring!

102 points by reikonomusha 13y ago

tunesmith 13y ago

What's the Buttonhole Trap?

e3pi 13y ago
A semi-flat stick with a thread sized-length loop thru a hole at one end, too short to pass over the stick's opposite end, say, loop can be stretched 95% to stick length. By passing the loop through a button-hole and scrunching material, it's possible to loop it around the button-hole. Can be maddening to first time victims. Easy to make. I've witnessed "This is impossible!" more than once. I wish we had a wise-old hacker Bill curmudgeon in the neighborhood.
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  - reikonomusha 13y ago
    A loop of string whose stretched length is 95% that of the stick. The string itself would be of length of approximately 2 * (95% of stick).
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- p4bl0 13y ago
  This seems odd to be. I honestly think I would have figured this out in a few seconds at most, even if I'm not usually very good at this bind of trick puzzle.
minikomi 13y ago
I think this is it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLauBh9Zvg0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLauBh9Zvg0

marcuscreo 13y ago

Wow, I haven't thought of Bill since I read "Hackers"...

AldousHaxley 13y ago

Reading this made me feel good. I feel like not enough hackers in my generation appreciate some of the history surrounding hacker culture. I read Levy's books a million times as an adolescent, and am currently going through "What the Dormouse Said" by John Markoff. A dream of mine has been to write a follow-up to Hackers someday. A book of the same style picking up where Hackers left off in the mid-1980s. It could cover NeXT, GNU/Linux, Netscape/Mosaic, Valve, Google, Facebook, up to modern hacking on the frontier of biology, education, and the rebirth of hardware hacking. I feel like every generation should have a volume similar to Hackers.

knome 13y ago
Both of those are excellent reads. "Dealers of Lightning" is another you might want to check out. edit: oops
- reikonomusha 13y ago
  Just a minor typo; it's "Dealers of Lightning".

zatara 13y ago

"He responded, "when there's something interesting to publish, it'll be published." He seemed to have a sort of disdain for "salami science", where scientific and mathematical papers present the thinnest possible "slice" or result possible." Very inspiring!