Reading this made me feel good. I feel like not enough hackers in my generation appreciate some of the history surrounding hacker culture. I read Levy's books a million times as an adolescent, and am currently going through "What the Dormouse Said" by John Markoff. A dream of mine has been to write a follow-up to Hackers someday. A book of the same style picking up where Hackers left off in the mid-1980s. It could cover NeXT, GNU/Linux, Netscape/Mosaic, Valve, Google, Facebook, up to modern hacking on the frontier of biology, education, and the rebirth of hardware hacking. I feel like every generation should have a volume similar to Hackers.
"He responded, "when there's something interesting to publish, it'll be published." He seemed to have a sort of disdain for "salami science", where scientific and mathematical papers present the thinnest possible "slice" or result possible."
A semi-flat stick with a thread sized-length loop thru a hole at one end, too short to pass over the stick's opposite end, say, loop can be stretched 95% to stick length. By passing the loop through a button-hole and scrunching material, it's possible to loop it around the button-hole. Can be maddening to first time victims. Easy to make. I've witnessed "This is impossible!" more than once.
I wish we had a wise-old hacker Bill curmudgeon in the neighborhood.
This seems odd to be. I honestly think I would have figured this out in a few seconds at most, even if I'm not usually very good at this bind of trick puzzle.
