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Who is your hero?
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Re: Who is your hero?
#12At the risk of sounding childish I'd say Batman is my hero. One could even consider him a hacker based on his technological prowess.
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#13HN lurkers such as dlsspy, pquerna, and zedshaw are my hacker heroes. They need not introductions but I suppose links won't hurt: http://hackerne.ws/user?id=dlsspy http://hackerne.ws/user?id=pquerna http://hackerne.ws/user?id=zedshaw
I like that. A lot of heroes go quietly about their business of making the world a little better, without having to wear their underpants on the outside to draw attention to themselves.
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#14Richard Feynman: part hacker, part physicist, all work, and all fun.
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#15Willie Crowther. Worked on ARPANet, wrote colossal cave, caver and climber.
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#16Socrates.
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#17HN lurkers such as dlsspy, pquerna, and zedshaw are my hacker heroes. They need not introductions but I suppose links won't hurt: http://hackerne.ws/user?id=dlsspy http://hackerne.ws/user?id=pquerna http://hackerne.ws/user?id=zedshaw
I like that. A lot of heroes go quietly about their business of making the world a little better, without having to wear their underpants on the outside to draw attention to themselves.
I'm not sure you can describe Zed Shaw as someone who doesn't draw attention to himself.
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#18Thomas Jefferson would be pretty close to the ideal hacker. (if others disagree I'm interested in why as I have very little opposing data so far).
First major North American proponent of the tomato, inventor of the swivel chair, father of archeology--there's a lot of stuff there. He was about as prolific as Franklin.
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#19Ron Paul
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
I like that. A lot of heroes go quietly about their business of making the world a little better, without having to wear their underpants on the outside to draw attention to themselves.
I'm not sure you can describe Zed Shaw as someone who doesn't draw attention to himself.
Fair point, though I was speaking more generally about heroes :)