Eric S. Raymond personal blog
How To Become A Hacker
As editor of the Jargon File and author of a few other well-known documents of similar nature, I often get email requests from enthusiastic network newbies asking (in effect) "how can I learn to be a wizardly hacker?". Back in 1996 I noticed that there didn't seem to be any other FAQs or web documents that addressed…
- Points
- 70
- HN comments
- 69
- Submissions
- 2
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- 94 commenters
Career & ManagementSoftware Engineering2010
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 11, 2010 | How To Become A Hacker by dskhatri | 70 | 28 |
| Jan 9, 2015 | How to Become a Hacker (2001) by jeremynixon | 69 | 41 |
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