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Hacker's
Wisdom |
«If one man asks another what a Hacker is
And the
other man answers him,
Neither of them knows it.»
--Borrowed
Zen Proverb
«If you understand them,
Things are as they
are;
If you do not understand them,
Things are as they
are.»
--Gensha |
Hacking |
- How To
Become A Hacker, Eric S. Raymond.
Do you have what it
takes to become a hacker?
- Hackers:
Taking a Byte Out of Computer Crime, Wade Roush.
Hacker v.s. Cracker, two common terms greatly mis-used by the
mainstream media. This article appeared in the April 1995 issue of
Technology Review.
[Note:This article is no longer
available online at techreview.com]
- The Jargon
File, Eric S. Raymond, ed.
The comprehensive
compendium of hacker slang illuminating many aspects of hackish
tradition, folklore, and humor; the appendix includes a profile of a
typical hacker.
- The
10 Commandments for C Programmers, Henry
Spencer.
«The Lord said to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain
and stay here, and I will give you the tablets of stone, with the law
and commands I have written for their instruction."» --Exodus 24:12
- The
Hacker FAQ (So You Have Yourself a Hacker),Peter
Seebach.
Answers questions that are invariably asked when people
without previous experience with the hacker community, hire a hacker.
- Gnu's not Unix,
Why
not join and contribute to the GNU Project?
- The
Loginataka, Eric S. Raymond.
Dialogue between a guru
and a newbie.
- Technology
and Pleasure: Considering Hacking Constructive, Gisle
Hannemyr.
Hackers are a specific subgroup of computer workers;
hacking may, under certain circumstances, yield superior software.
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Humour |
- God
vs. K&R, Alan Morgan
The most creative follow-up
to the infamous "Jesus is Coming" spam, c. 1994.
- Real
Programmers Don't Use Pascal, Ed Post.
The
differences between the typical high-school junior Pac-Man player and a
Real Programmer.
- "Wizardry
Compiled", Rick Cook.
A compilation of epigrams from
the novel, Wizardry Compiled.
- A
Spotter's Guide to Academic Programmers, Pete Fenelon.
This handy guide helps identify 20 types of programmers.
- Unix
Guru's View of Sex, Anonymous.
«UNIX is like Sex:
If you don't know it, you don't miss it. But if you know it, you'll need
it.» -Anonymous.
- The King's
Toaster, Anonymous.
Two very different approaches to
designing a toaster.
- Hacker's
in Heaven, Anonymous.
Jesus and Satan have an
argument as to who is the better programmer.
- 3 Wise
Men, Dennis Ritchie.
The differences between
Kernighan, Ritchie and Thompson are real but very subtle.
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Hacks |
- Multi-language
program hack, Jeremy Todd Dilatush.
A single
program that will print "Hello world!" when compiled with gcc, or run through the Perl, Tcl, and/or sh interpreters.
- Unix
Recovery Legend, Mario Wolczko.
What do you do when
root accidently types "rm
-rf /"?
a) Panic and re-boot the workstation;
b) Do (a),
then cry like a little girl when that doesn't work;
c) Read this
post.
- HAKMEM
AI Memo 239: the legendary collection of neat mathematical and
programming hacks contributed by many people at MIT and elsewhere.
("HAKMEM", is a 6-letterism for `hacks memo'.)
- A
Report on The Internet Worm, Bob Page.
A post-mortem
on the program that, in 1988, wreaked havoc on the Internet.
- The International Obfuscated C Code
Contest
Providing a safe forum for poor C code. :-)
- Perl
«There's more
than one way to do it. Easy things should be easy and hard things should
be possible.»
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Hacker Demigods |
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- « Richard M. Stallman, Linus Thorvalds [sic], and
Donald E. Knuth engage in a discussion on whose impact on the
computerized world was the greatest.
Stallman: "God told me I have programmed the best editor in
the world!"
Thorvalds: "Well, God told *me* that I have
programmed the best operating system in the world!"
Knuth:
"Wait, wait - I never said that." »
- Erik Meltzer, rec.humor.funny
- Keith
Bostic,
One of the "Berkeley Daemons".
- John
Draper,
a.k.a. Cap'n Crunch.
- Edsger W.
Dijkstra, 1930 - 2002
«May, in spite of
all distractions generated by technology, all of you succeed in turning
information into knowledge, knowledge into understanding, and
understanding into wisdom.»
- GNU Friends,
A
community site for friends of the GNU project. Good interviews.
- James
Gosling,
Papa Java.
- Brian W.
Kernighan,
The "K" in K&R.
- Donald E.
Knuth,
TAOCP.
- Ray
Kurzweil,
«The Thomas Edison of the computer age».
- Marshall Kirk McKusick
,
A "Berkeley Daemon".
- Keith
Packard,
X marks the spot.
- Rob
Pike,
«I saw a flying saucer».
- Dennis M.
Ritchie,
The "R" in K&R.
- RMS,
Saint
iGNUcius (c.f. Free as in
Freedom)
- Ken
Thompson,
Unix.
- Alan
Turing,
The Enigma.
- Vernor
Vinge,
True Names.
- Larry
Wall,
Lazy, impatient and full of hubris.
- The Woz ,
Father of
the Apple ][.
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Miscellany |
- Index Librorum
Liberorum, John Walker.
A formidable site with a
multitude of very cool & interesting hacking topics (including
The Hacker's Diet). Plan to make several trips.
- Graphica
Obscura, Paul Haeberli.
On the aesthetic aspects of
hacking.
- alt.folklore.computers
FAQ, Wilson Afonso, maintainer.
In this list of
Frequently Asked Questions, learn the truth about NASA's Mariner
I space-probe failure and learn why the letter "i" is frequently
chosen as a loop counter.
- Designing an
Authentication System: a Dialogue in Four Scenes, Bill
Bryant.
This dialogue provides a fictitious account of the design
of an open-network authentication system called "Charon."
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