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It is widely grokked that cats have the hacker nature
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Eric S. Raymond
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: December 4
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Eric Steven Raymond
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In the U.S., blacks are 12% of the population but commit 50% of violent crimes can anyone honestly think this is unconnected to the fact that they average 15 points of IQ lower than the general population? That stupid people are more violent is a fact independent of skin color.
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And for any agents or proxy of the regime interested in asking me questions face to face, I've got some bullets slathered in pork fat to make you feel extra special welcome.
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Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around.
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With enough eyes, all bugs are shallow.
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Equally, the Internet interprets attempts at proprietary control as threats and mobilizes to defeat them.
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Being able to break security doesn't make you a hacker anymore than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer.
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You cannot motivate the best people with money. Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion.
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Every good work of software starts by scratching a developers personal itch.
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Programmer time is expensive conserve it in preference to machine time
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A security system is only as secure as its secret. Beware of pseudo-secrets.
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Treating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid code improvement and effective debugging.
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Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans) perceive beauty is intimately related to our ability to process and understand complexity. A language that makes it hard to write elegant code makes it hard to write good code.
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Lisp was far more powerful and flexible than any other language of its day in fact, it is still a better design than most languages of today, twenty-five years later. Lisp freed ITS's hackers to think in unusual and creative ways. It was a major factor in their successes, and remains one of hackerdom's favorite languages.
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Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.
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Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types.
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The next best thing to having good ideas is recognizing good ideas from your users. Sometimes the latter is better.
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Grovelling is not a substitute for doing your homework.
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Often, the most striking and innovative solutions come from realizing that your concept of the problem was wrong.
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