Hacking - the truth, not the media slur

Posted by freedomforall 9 years, 2 months ago to Technology
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A hacker is a type of hands-on, experimenting scientist, although perhaps sometimes the term "mad scientist" fits better, because unlike professional scientists they dive right in, following a feeling rather than a formal hypothesis. That's not necessarily a bad thing. Many interesting things have been designed or invented by people who didn't follow standard conventions of what was known or believed to be true at the time.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 9 years, 2 months ago
    To me "hacking" means drilling down through one layer of abstraction as an expedient to get something working. Hacking is what work is all about. Something doesn't work, so you open up what you previously thought of as a black box. You do something to get the black box working and find a model that explains what's happening, that it will work under all input/output conditions. Then you close up the black box and never think about it again.

    They absolutely should teach hacking.

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