[sdiy] Hacker Dictionary (was Walsh Generator Release, of all things)

[Don Tillman]

   > Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 20:10:51 +0200 (CEST)
   > From: Magnus Danielson <cfmd at swipnet.se>
   > 
   > The New Hacker's Dictionary compiled by Eric S. Raymond 
   > 
   > The dictionary is online, but I do recommend that you get the
   > book, and lie down and read some of it when you have an agonizing
   > problem.  You will find that you enlarge your vocabulary, make
   > yourself understood by peers and get better respect by management
   > since now they do not understand what you say... ;O)

I heartily recommend this book.  It's not just a dictionary, it's a
tour of the Hacker Ethic movement fostered at MIT, Stanford and other
places.  Though I never went to school there, I've been lucky enough
to have lived and worked right next to both Stanford and MIT, and
worked closely with a number of the folks featured prominently in the
dictionary.  And it's all been an incredible learning experience.


  -- Don

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Don Tillman
Palo Alto, California, USA
don at till.com
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