Tony Thomas » posterous http://anthonygthomas.com Father to two, husband to one, web developer and musician. Fri, 27 Apr 2012 19:26:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Michael Shermer’s TED Talk: Why People Believe Weird Things http://anthonygthomas.com/2009/11/09/michael-shermers-ted-talk-why-people-believe-weird-things/ http://anthonygthomas.com/2009/11/09/michael-shermers-ted-talk-why-people-believe-weird-things/#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:33:47 +0000 admin http://anthonygthomas.com/2009/11/09/michael-shermers-ted-talk-why-people-believe-weird-things/

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Hackers solve problems and build things, and they believe in freedom and voluntary mutual help. To be accepted as a hacker, you have to behave as though you have this kind of attitude yourself. And to behave as though you have the attitude, you have to really believe the attitude.

This reminds me of a high school friend who once told me, "Punk isn't a kind of music, it's an attitude." Whatever dude.

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Gorgeous ride this morning.

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I posted this years ago, but I just ran across Neal Stephenson's essay "In the Beginning was the Command Line". If you haven't read this, you really should.
 

About twenty years ago Jobs and Wozniak, the founders of Apple, came up with the very strange idea of selling information processing machines for use in the home. The business took off, and its founders made a lot of money and received the credit they deserved for being daring visionaries. But around the same time, Bill Gates and Paul Allen came up with an idea even stranger and more fantastical: selling computer operating systems. This was much weirder than the idea of Jobs and Wozniak. A computer at least had some sort of physical reality to it. It came in a box, you could open it up and plug it in and watch lights blink. An operating system had no tangible incarnation at all. It arrived on a disk, of course, but the disk was, in effect, nothing more than the box that the OS came in. The product itself was a very long string of ones and zeroes that, when properly installed and coddled, gave you the ability to manipulate other very long strings of ones and zeroes. Even those few who actually understood what a computer operating system was were apt to think of it as a fantastically arcane engineering prodigy, like a breeder reactor or a U-2 spy plane, and not something that could ever be (in the parlance of high-tech) "productized." 

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