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Haha, how can you be sold out of an eBook? Besides, it's a free download.
No. "Sold out" to The Man. The Capitalist Man.
Man, I hate people who are successful doing what comes naturally to them.
Phrack Issue #68
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Re: Phrack Issue #68
#52PHUCK YEAH. You wanna talk about news for hackers, and not this Bay Area, VC-manipulated, water-downed, same-ol' bullshit? Phrack is real talk. If you want to travel outside of California and actually call yourself a hacker, you're gonna need to read this and as much of the archive as you can. Phrack 0wnz.
Good point. Also, why are you on this site? You can't get much more "Bay Area, VC-manipulated, water-downed, same-ol' bullshit" than HN.
I like both!
I live in the Bay now, and I am running a start-up project. I think that startups are good!
I'm just coming from a culture where hacker means something very different. In California, it seems to just mean "developer," and HackerNews should probably just be called DeveloperNews, but really it's too late for that now, and not really even worth talking about. Words can mean different things regionally, and that's okay. That's the only point I was trying to make.
Re: Phrack Issue #68
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
As a student taking a CS degree for fun, I think the 'Happy Hacking' article is fairly insightful. Not of the best quality, perhaps, but insightful none the less.
A good article would have taken the actual source material "The Happiness Hypothesis" and not filtered it through antisec/anticorp propaganda. It's nice that they pointed out the general idea that doing what you love as your job doesn't always work out, but jesus fucking christ, there's so many jobs out there I can guarantee you there's a way to do what you love and make money off it and not grow to hate it. Nothing…
Sure, I just get the feeling that you're lucky to find such jobs (jobs where you can do what you love and still love doing it).
Re: Phrack Issue #68
#54The 'Lines In The Sand' piece reads like someone who is enamored with being a 'bad boy' and that breaking the law is just really cool and if you want to be a cool black hat hacker you should basically try to cause as much mayhem as possible, fuck anyone else (but also be in complete solidarity with the black hat brethren who should totally go to jail for you without question). Apparently you can't even hack for a liv…
If you want to check out a hacking magazine (of sorts) with a more positive, pro self-improvement spin, then try Interesting Times Magazine:
Re: Phrack Issue #68
#55PHUCK YEAH. You wanna talk about news for hackers, and not this Bay Area, VC-manipulated, water-downed, same-ol' bullshit? Phrack is real talk. If you want to travel outside of California and actually call yourself a hacker, you're gonna need to read this and as much of the archive as you can. Phrack 0wnz.
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We try to keep the old-school badboy ethos from Phrack and 2600, but we write about hacking in a greater sense. Ie hacking the body, hacking relationships, hacking gardening (aka permaculture), hacking one's own psyche, all kinds of fun stuff :)
We aim to be what you would get if you were to put Tim Ferriss and Tony Robbins in charge of 2600 :)