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You mistake the tools for the person holding the tools. Like
science, hacking similarly has no good nor evil, merely a method.
Tis the mind behind it that gives it purpose. <br>
<br>
There is really something awesome about the level of authoritarian
tech. The amount of data they can process, zero in on, the thousand
core boxes and the datacenter design. And there is something equally
awesome about bouncing my traffic across 7 proxies wrapped in enough
encryption to drown a german. Now if only I could convince my
adversaries to be as classy as my comrades. <br>
<img
alt="http://kingsofwar.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/LulzSec-1-290x269.jpg"
src="cid:part1.05040504.03020806@rhavenindustrys.com" height="269"
width="290"><br>
PS:fuck zuckerberg<br>
On 02/02/2012 10:06 AM, Will Bradley wrote:
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<p>There's not much of the hacker ethic there though, if hackers
are supposed to be for freedom of information.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 2, 2012 8:59 AM, "Jordan Miller"
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from Zuckerberg's open letter to investors about the impending
Facebook IPO...<br>
<br>
jordan<br>
<br>
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<br>
The Hacker Way<br>
<br>
As part of building a strong company, we work hard at making
Facebook<br>
the best place for great people to have a big impact on the
world and<br>
learn from other great people. We have cultivated a unique
culture and<br>
management approach that we call the Hacker Way.<br>
<br>
The word "hacker" has an unfairly negative connotation from
being<br>
portrayed in the media as people who break into computers. In
reality,<br>
hacking just means building something quickly or testing the<br>
boundaries of what can be done. Like most things, it can be
used for<br>
good or bad, but the vast majority of hackers I've met tend to
be<br>
idealistic people who want to have a positive impact on the
world.<br>
<br>
The Hacker Way is an approach to building that involves
continuous<br>
improvement and iteration. Hackers believe that something can
always<br>
be better, and that nothing is ever complete. They just have
to go fix<br>
it - often in the face of people who say it's impossible or
are<br>
content with the status quo.<br>
<br>
Hackers try to build the best services over the long term by
quickly<br>
releasing and learning from smaller iterations rather than
trying to<br>
get everything right all at once. To support this, we have
built a<br>
testing framework that at any given time can try out thousands
of<br>
versions of Facebook. We have the words "Done is better than
perfect"<br>
painted on our walls to remind ourselves to always keep
shipping.<br>
<br>
Hacking is also an inherently hands-on and active discipline.
Instead<br>
of debating for days whether a new idea is possible or what
the best<br>
way to build something is, hackers would rather just prototype<br>
something and see what works. There's a hacker mantra that
you'll hear<br>
a lot around Facebook offices: "Code wins arguments."<br>
<br>
Hacker culture is also extremely open and meritocratic.
Hackers<br>
believe that the best idea and implementation should always
win - not<br>
the person who is best at lobbying for an idea or the person
who<br>
manages the most people.<br>
<br>
To encourage this approach, every few months we have a
hackathon,<br>
where everyone builds prototypes for new ideas they have. At
the end,<br>
the whole team gets together and looks at everything that has
been<br>
built. Many of our most successful products came out of
hackathons,<br>
including Timeline, chat, video, our mobile development
framework and<br>
some of our most important infrastructure like the HipHop
compiler.<br>
<br>
To make sure all our engineers share this approach, we require
all new<br>
engineers - even managers whose primary job will not be to
write code<br>
- to go through a program called Bootcamp where they learn our<br>
codebase, our tools and our approach. There are a lot of folks
in the<br>
industry who manage engineers and don't want to code
themselves, but<br>
the type of hands-on people we're looking for are willing and
able to<br>
go through Bootcamp.<br>
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