Date: 06 Jul 1999 17:03:28 -0500 From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com>, "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net>, haodongpan@netease.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to start to be a hacker? Message-ID: <86r9ml5tcf.fsf@detlev.UUCP> In-Reply-To: Wes Peters's message of "Sat, 03 Jul 1999 01:18:52 -0600" References: <Pine.HPP.3.96.990702075306.20843F-100000@hp9000.chc-chimes.com> <377DB95C.448E4227@softweyr.com>
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>>>> I know the basic admin knowledge of UNIX,perl,cgi,c >>>> how to become a hacker? >>> You either are a hacker, or you are not. It is not something someone else >>> can teach you. >> This deserves a FAQ entry. What an awesome response. > But it's certainly NOT something that you just are, either. You have to > have talent, but you also have to have experience. This is most often > done by a mentor. I think the general gist was summed up in Levy[1]: "If a hacker's made, he's got to be born; but if a hacker's born, he's gonna be made." (I haven't read Levy in ages, and I am probably mangling the quote. I can't even be sure that it's from Levy. FWIW, I think the originator was either Gosper or GLS.) Cheers, joelh [1] Levy, Steven. _Hackers_. Anchor/Doubleday 1984 ISBN 0-385-19195-2 -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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