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  1. Feb 2018
    1. Hackers are good at spotting homework questions; most of us have done them ourselves. Those questions are for you to work out

      looking up anything online that relates to homework is sometimes the only thing you can do.

    2. Describe the problem's symptoms, not your guesses

      When asking questions on the internet, it's almost essential that you be very descriptive if you want an answer to your problem

    3. HELP! Video doesn't work properly on my laptop!

      Sadly, sometimes posts like this would actually get more attention sometimes than if if you posted the smarter question.

    4. Stack Overflow

      I've used this sight throughout my college career and it has at times made me more confused than actually helping me out.

    5. When you ask your question, display the fact that you have done these things first

      Do your research before you ask any sort of question, this is an essential statement

    6. hackers actually like hard problems and good, thought-provoking questions

      I feel like this was something that was said during the first week of this class

    1. These simple rules are quite powerful guidelines

      This was exactly what I was thinking when I was reading those bullets, They seem pretty simple, but at the same time almost necessities.

    1. Snowden made it clear that he intended to use his real identity as the source of the classified information.

      This may be one of the most badass moves I've ever heard of. Pretty much saying f*ck you to the government.

    2. National Security Agency’s mass surveillance programme using classified documents revealed by NSA whistle-blower

      This sentence sounds like a conspiracy theorist saying that the NSA is watching you through your computer, Alexa, Smart TV, phone, ect.

    1. Foracapitalistclasstoexist,themarketmustberigged,andindeed,allmarketsare

      Never really thought of this, but it seems pretty dark.

    2. Nosocialorder,nomatterhowentrenchedandruthlesslyimposed,canresisttransformationwhennewwaysofproducingandshar-ingemerge.

      This in a way reminds me of how everyone is always wanting the new thing and hoping it'll make their lives better.

    3. Notonlydoesoursocietyfacetheage-oldafflic-tionsofpovertyandinjustice,butitisbecomingclearthattheproductionlevelsrequiredtosustaintheaccumulationofanelitefewdriveusrepeatedlyintowar,andinevitablytowardsenvironmentalcatastrophe.

      I feel like this is a bit overdramatic. Yes the internet does have a vital role in our everyday lives, but calling it a catastrophe is a bit much.

    1. current liberal views of free software and free culture which seek to trap culture within capitalism

      I wonder if this relates to open data and the availability it has online.

    1. "Bugsplat" was the name for Scopus, a bug-reporting program fronted with an HTML interface. It was ideal as a workflow management system.

      I don't know much about HTML or bug-reporting systems, but Bugsplat is a pretty awesome name for a de-bugging program.

  2. gabriellacoleman.org gabriellacoleman.org
    1. Because hackers challenge one strain of liberal jurisprudence, intellectual property, by drawing on and reformulating ideals from another one, free speech, the arena of F/OSS makes palpable the tensions between two of the most cherished liberal precepts— both of which have undergone a signi" cant deepening and widening in recent decades

      This is a great description of how the hackers go against the norms and regulations of society.

    1. A 30-year-old science geek, Shimomura was also a Japanese citizen, a ski bum, a longhaired computational physicist, and a hacker himself.

      Seems like an average person. That's what I think of when I think of computer hackers, someone who can blend in with the crowd.

    1. So while I admit that hacking doesn't seem as cool as painting now, we should remember that painting itself didn't seem as cool in its glory days as it does now.

      This is a really cool point, that'd be pretty cool if people remembered the important hacks the same way people remember important paintings.

    2. Both of these images are wrong. Hacking and painting have a lot in common. In fact, of all the different types of people I've known, hackers and painters are among the most alike.

      This is very fascinating, I never really thought about putting these two together, but this article makes great points as to why this is.

  3. Jan 2018
    1. “First of all, I’m not good at the math. I’m a programmer, yes, but I’m an East Coast programmer, not one of these serious platform people from the Bay Area.

      I thought this was very interesting, I didn't know that peoples coding expertise could be labeled based on their location.

    1. As an American and native English-speaker myself, I have previously been reluctant to suggest this, lest it be taken as a sort of cultural imperialism. But several native speakers of other languages have urged me to point out that English is the working language of the hacker culture and the Internet, and that you will need to know it to function in the hacker community.

      learning how to code is hard enough, but learning how to do it in a different language, seems impossible.

    2. Real hackers call these people ‘crackers’ and want nothing to do with them.

      Never knew about this fact, I always figured there was some sort of name for the hackers that would break the law, but never knew it was cracker. I wonder why this name came to be.