How yuppies hacked the hacker ethos
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Re: How yuppies hacked the hacker ethos
#2I scanned this before coffee this morning and in short I'm not sure anyone else should read it in its present state.
Although the author poses some interesting ideas the piece feels long and muddled and I'm not at all sure who the audience is or what the call to action might be. Voice is unclear as some paragraphs are personal statements ("I") and others are observations about culture and economics.
It might be more powerful if it was drastically shorter and simpler ... or maybe if it was three times longer with more references and a stronger set of recommendations. I really can't say.
Re: How yuppies hacked the hacker ethos
#3"Go home, yuppies!" - Yes and no. Hacker spirit is flexible, so why are we still sitting on that name? It's dead for that spirit since the 90s. In some regard I think, that I even care might be a good proof that I don't really belong. Wouldn't be strange to see the "real hackers" to just go hack something else while we sit here discussing "community norms" and "special terms".
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#4Don't really like this article, the writing is embellished and the thesis unclear.
Re: How yuppies hacked the hacker ethos
#5I scanned this before coffee this morning and in short I'm not sure anyone else should read it in its present state. Although the author poses some interesting ideas the piece feels long and muddled and I'm not at all sure who the audience is or what the call to action might be. Voice is unclear as some paragraphs are personal statements ("I") and others are observations about culture and economics. It might be more…
Go home, yuppies.
The last few paragraphs bring it home: hacking is being subverted as a tool of the establishment and no longer, in common use, means working against the establishment.
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#6I thought that yuppies had disappeared along with hippies, beatniks, Teddies, etc. etc.
Re: How yuppies hacked the hacker ethos
#7Don't really like this article, the writing is embellished and the thesis unclear.
The thesis is that, through a process similar to gentrification of ethnic neighborhoods, the term "hacker" and the culture it represents has been replaced with a shallow facsimile that's more palatable to moneyed interests. Not sure how you missed it.
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#8I thought that yuppies had disappeared along with hippies, beatniks, Teddies, etc. etc.
Maybe they don't call them "yuppies" much anymore but, no, I don't think so.
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#9Hint: the phrase 'to suffer fools gladly' comes to mind.
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#10I'd rather say, 80s hackers are todays yuppies. So it might be the same people.