Other Resources for Hackers

Paul Graham has written an essay called Great Hackers, and another on Undergraduation, in which he speaks much wisdom.There is a document called How To Be A Programmer that is an excellent complement to this one. It has valuable advice not just about coding and skillsets, but about how to function on a programming team.He have also written...

Status in the Hacker Culture

Like most cultures without a money economy, hackerdom runs on reputation. You're trying to solve interesting problems, but how interesting they are, and whether your solutions are really good, is something that only your technical peers or superiors are normally equipped to judge.Accordingly, when you play the hacker game, you learn to...