[HN Gopher] The Conscience of a Hacker (1986)
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       The Conscience of a Hacker (1986)
        
       Author : octocop
       Score  : 35 points
       Date   : 2023-09-27 19:35 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | kstrauser wrote:
       | Now that's cool.
        
         | bitwize wrote:
         | You think that's cool? It's commie bullshit!
        
           | kstrauser wrote:
           | It's cool!
        
       | bitwize wrote:
       | The Jargon File has a facetious etymology for "hacker" as being
       | originally a term for "someone who makes furniture with an axe".
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       | Loyd Blankenship had, for a time, a business selling custom made
       | furniture. So he's a hacker across _all_ definitions of the word.
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       | He's been known to post on hackernews, replete with bits of 90s
       | leetspeek which gives me a frisson of joy and nostalgia:
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=loydb
        
         | LordDragonfang wrote:
         | His account's "about" is prefaced with a link to his Wikipedia
         | article. What a flex.
        
       | aleden wrote:
       | In drawing comparison to the "Angry Young Men" [1] of British
       | playwrights, did this piece of writing establish a new wave of
       | "Angry Young Hackers"?
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       | [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angry_young_men
        
       | em3rgent0rdr wrote:
       | https://web.archive.org/web/20230927193603/http://textfiles....
        
       | chrisrickard wrote:
       | As a anarchistic punk teenager, The Hackers Manifesto deeply
       | resonated with me.. I actually had it written on my bedroom wall.
       | 
       | Loyd Blankenship, better known by his pseudonym The Mentor, is an
       | American computer hacker and writer. He has been active since the
       | 1970s, when he was a member of the hacker groups Extasyy Elite
       | and Legion of Doom.
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       | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyd_Blankenship
        
       | mmsc wrote:
       | Written Loyd Blankenship of Legion of Doom.
        
       | badrabbit wrote:
       | Ahh..yeah, good stuff.
       | 
       | Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.
        
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