Short and confused post, in the spirit of twitter
why on hacking for hack’s sake :
Subverting the authority is totally inherent to hacking.
It is about Stormings of Bastilles, sure. Not so much doing things as trying to understand what’s going on by shaking the foundations and hearing the noises made by the structure...
Rather than attacking a fixed opponent, one who is clearly sitting across from you and obviously masked under the inverted color to yours, the novice hacker introduces volatile code into the pristine (or supposedly pristine) empire of the operating system (the “establishment”.)
Again authority as the opposite of hacking... i.e., hacking as entropy building, chaotic mutation force in the mutation/selection annealing...
No big conclusions here. Only that the two opinions about programming are to be balanced like ying and yang. Knowledge vs Action, Philosophy vs Engineering, Poetry vs Accountancy. Both are needed.
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