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1. do hackers all have smartphones now? i'm just curious to see the mobile device statistics. sometimes i feel like people are emotionally responding in the sam
by diN0bot 17y ago
1. do hackers all have smartphones now? i'm just curious to see the mobile device statistics. sometimes i feel like people are emotionally responding in the same way that folks confuse twitter's recent growth and hotness with facebook's sheer size.
2. hackers have always had access to terminals and remote servers. i would never want to code anything serious on a random machine. hackers take customized l33t setups seriously. even if i had access to my code (a quick repo checkout would solve that...no need to carry usb around) most random machines don't even have the necessary hacking tools (ff with sqlite manager? preffered .bash_profile and .emacs?)
are you instead suggestion that the entire dev environment is on the smart phone, and i simply dock into the keyboard, screen and mouse to start coding? that would be hot. it's exactly like connect to a remote server except that the server is not remote and is portable.
3. i've already forgotten why hackers is a reasonable market to care about.....aren't most people not hackers? i'm not even sure i consider myself a hacker [and all i want to do is make things. i'm just not the conventional hacker in that i don't want to waste time on IT and i don't have a non-collaborative ego problem].
- sh1mmer 17y agoYou lost me with "l33t setups", possibly you are thinking of the wrong kind of "hackers".
- kiba 17y agoIn order to make a living, Hackers must write software that people want. So where ever hackers goes, their customers follow? If hackers find the environment to be hostile and a pain, they probably will consider a different market that isn't so hostile to their entrepeneural effort. Given time, the inertia of the previous hostile platform will flip toward what hackers want.