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The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago
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Re: The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago
#42Talk about feeling old. Movies will never be as great as they were in mid/late 90s.
Re: The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago
#43Hackers and Sneakers are maybe the only decent movies about so-called hackers.
you didn't love swordfish?
I hated it. IIRC, there is this part where the main character is trying to assemble a virus, shouting "compile, compile, please compile... YES!".
I wasn't convinced about this hacker having problems to compile a program...
OR
There is another possible explanation but I have to check dates since I think the movie was released way before the first version of Rust!!!
Re: The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago
#44Between Hackers, Masters of Doom, and other rad 90s hacker-coder media, software development really seemed like a much more awesome career than it turned out to be. If I had a time machine I would warn young me that it's really more like a combination of Office Space and Wolf of Wall Street. It would be awesome to listen to Prodigy or Megadeth while hackin' with the gang though. I'm still down for that if it exists s…
>Between Hackers, Masters of Doom, and other rad 90s hacker-coder media, software development really seemed like a much more awesome career than it turned out to be. I think it comes down to the fact that our industry has become rigid and beholden to the university education system. John Carmack and John Romero were both college dropouts. Their stories would probably be impossible today. What we have now is a world o…
Are startups the closest you can still get to "punk rock in tech"? I would love for the dream of the 90s to still be alive somewhere...
Re: The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
I liked one bit of that movie, when Hugh Jackman is pacing around muttering "I'm too old for this shit" and finishing a bottle of wine during a coding session.
That "building the worm" scene has got to be my favorite depiction of software development of all time. https://youtube.com/watch?v=u1Ds9CeG-VY
I mean, it got the "% of spoken words that are profanities" part correct.
Re: The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago
#48Did not work for me at the time but pretty much everyone cool was super impressed with it. And why wouldn't they? We were the target audience.
Somehow hacking computer things wasn't as appealing as shooting intelligent bugs. Would you like to know more?
Re: The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Between Hackers, Masters of Doom, and other rad 90s hacker-coder media, software development really seemed like a much more awesome career than it turned out to be. I think it comes down to the fact that our industry has become rigid and beholden to the university education system. John Carmack and John Romero were both college dropouts. Their stories would probably be impossible today. What we have now is a world o…
Are startups the closest you can still get to "punk rock in tech"? I would love for the dream of the 90s to still be alive somewhere...
Startups are the least punk rock thing in tech. Follow patterns and rules to match the expectations of VCs so they give you money... and then they drive what you do.
I'm not saying people should not work in startups - they have their place in the industry. But there is nothing "punk rock" about them.
If you want to break rules and work outside the lines, we have come full circle to the 90s - bootstrapped small businesses are the way to go.
Re: The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago
#50Eric Corley was a technical consultant on that movie. Do with that what you may.