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Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age is a collection of essays from Paul Graham discussing hacking, programming languages, start-up companies, and many other technological issues.
Everything and anything is a code for the hacker to hack, be it "programming, language, poetic language, math, or music, curves or colourings" [4] and once hacked, they create the possibility for new things to enter the world. What they create is not necessarily "great", or "even good", but new, in the areas of culture, art, science, and ...
The Hacker Bible is a publication of the German hacker organization Chaos Computer Club (CCC). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It has been published in two editions to date, 1985 and 1988. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Both were edited by Wau Holland and published on the Grüne Kraft press.
Levy stepped away from the technology beat in his second book, on the murderous past of hippie and Earth Day co-founder Ira Einhorn, published in 1988 and adapted into an NBC TV miniseries with Naomi Watts in 1999. [17] [18] [2] Levy's 1992 book about AI called Artificial Life was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and ...
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (ISBN 0-385-19195-2) is a book by Steven Levy about hacker culture. It was published in 1984 in Garden City , New York by Doubleday . Levy describes the people, the machines, and the events that defined the Hacker culture and the Hacker Ethic , from the early mainframe hackers at MIT , to the self-made ...
The Mentor gave a reading of The Hacker Manifesto and offered additional insight at H2K2. [5] It is also an item in the game Culpa Innata. A poster of the Hacker Manifesto appears in the 2010 film The Social Network in the Harvard room of Mark Zuckerberg. The Hacker Manifesto is mentioned in Edward Snowden's autobiography Permanent Record.
John Thomas Draper (born March 11, 1943), also known as Captain Crunch, Crunch, or Crunchman (after the Cap'n Crunch breakfast cereal mascot and the free toy plastic Cap'n Crunch bo'sun whistle used to hack phone calls), is an American computer programmer and former phone phreak.
The book discusses watershed events in the hacker subculture in the early 1990s. The most notable topic covered is Operation Sundevil and the events surrounding the 1987–1990 war on the Legion of Doom network: the raid on Steve Jackson Games , the trial of " Knight Lightning " (one of the original journalists of Phrack ), and the subsequent ...