Reading 07 – Apples or Bananas? Why not both?
1. Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer’s personal itch 2. Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse). 3. Plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow. 4. If you have the right attitude, interesting problems will find you. 5. When you lose interest in…
Reading 06 – Sad.
I am a hypocrite, I think. After some minutes of self-reflection, I think I’m a hypocrite. The readings and what we have discussed as a class made me realize that in some ways, I don’t want to be someone who only pursues generating wealth and not the life around them. But I feel that, in…
Reading 05 – It’s About How You Use the Tool
I have always been a big advocate of “programming languages” don’t really matter, but I do admit that there are definitely languages that are easier to learn and use than others. Python, for example, is now appearing in the curriculum of many introductory computer science classes, because it is one of the programming languages most…
Reading 04 – A Lonely 3dgycr1ng3l0rd
Short backstory, I used to play this videogame called Maplestory. It is a 2D platform MMORPG and I had a great time fighting bosses with my guildmates and friends. My gamertag was EdgyCringe because I thought it was a funny and satirical meme name. If EdgyCringe was a real person that was essentially an embodiment…
Reading 03 – Is the future dark? 
The old phrase, “Money is the root of all evil”, really seems true. It was quite depressing and honestly intimidating to learn how much of the hacker community evolved into money-hungry, fame-seeking corporates. I found great interest in hacking in high school; anything new about computers that I learned in my classes, whether it be…
Reading 02 – Can I be a rich “true hacker”?
My greatest takeaway from this reading was that people are the west side of this country embodies a different mindset from the people who reside in the northeast. Unlike the almost-toxically exclusive hacker groups of the northeast who segregated people who they deemed “losers” from the “winners”, the hardware hackers in the west coast were…
Reading 01 – Do I want to be a hacker?
Yes. That would be cool. I would like to be able to punish criminals by hacking into their bank accounts or by exposing their secret plans to the media. Yay. The first chapters of Steven Levy’s “Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution” completely altered my view of what a “hacker” is. Well, not completely. I…
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