"Programming is Forgetting: Towards a new Hacker Ethic" by @aparrish (Open Hardware Summit 2016 Keynote)
http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/programming-forgetting-new-hacker-ethic/
As an early-'80s kid who was enamored by the "Jargon File" and reverent descriptions of Hacker Culture, now too often disappointed by what grew out of it, this talk resonated with me so much. Highly recommended.
Thank you @catonano for the link
- I had long ago heard the tale of the PDP-1 hacker who got in trouble because of the annoying user, but wasn't bothered by it at the time
- I later learned who Margaret Hamilton was explicitly due to efforts by women on social media to signal-boost
- But it took Parrish's talk to connect those two things for me
I bet the talk took more than a few people like me on the same journey
