The aricle is OK, but I had to laugh with this starting quote:
"“The most obvious common ‘personality’ characteristics of hackers are high intelligence, consuming curiosity, and facility with intellectual abstractions. Also, most hackers are ‘neophiles’, stimulated by and appreciative of novelty (especially intellectual novelty). Most are also relatively individualistic and anti-conformist.” – Eric S. Raymond, The Jargon File"
Which reminds me of that immortal Reservoir Dogs line: "let's not start sucking each other's dicks quite yet"...
>Which reminds me of that immortal Reservoir Dogs line: "let's not start sucking each other's dicks quite yet"...
Thats the thing about the word "hacker", almost every single context where it is used, it's either used wrong, or as comes across as pompous bullshit. Including this website.
I agree, but only in that he limits the statement to hackers. All creatures are driven by novelty. Sometimes this makes it seem as as if we are "pleasure driven" but really it is novelty we seek. I have been thinking about this a lot lately and it answers the question as to why things like google, twitter, flickr, thrive: novelty aggregation.
"“The most obvious common ‘personality’ characteristics of hackers are high intelligence, consuming curiosity, and facility with intellectual abstractions. Also, most hackers are ‘neophiles’, stimulated by and appreciative of novelty (especially intellectual novelty). Most are also relatively individualistic and anti-conformist.” – Eric S. Raymond, The Jargon File"
Which reminds me of that immortal Reservoir Dogs line: "let's not start sucking each other's dicks quite yet"...