Programming

[–] perishthethought@piefed.social 8 points 2 months ago

How was Thomas J. Watson buried? 9 edge down.

Every bug you find is the last one.

The moving cursor prints, and having printed, blinks on.


A few gems from that era. 🙂

[–] TomMasz@piefed.social 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Number 6 feels like it was true once but isn't any longer.

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[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 2 months ago

It says "can". I want to believe it's still possible.

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[–] vrek@programming.dev 5 points 2 months ago

It can improve your life... It likely won't and even if it does will cause more harm to humanity than improving your life but it can still improve your life.

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[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Number 4 is incomplete.

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[–] jbrjake@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Is this an actual artifact? I never ran across this when I researched the origin of “Information wants to be free”… and it’s a word for word match to how Steven Levy later described the hacker ethos of the era in his own words in his book Hackers. I’m wondering if someone just rendered it out to look like it came from an old typewriter, and that context got lost as people shared it.

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[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 months ago (1 child)

I was also curious and I can find no reference to this wording existing beyond the book, so my guess is this is bullshit.

While the word hacker is believed to come from MIT nobody seems to know exactly when in the 50s it came into use and was largely used for describing a specific type of prankster rather than what we know if for today. I highly doubt that ‘modern’ hacker culture would have been established by 1962 anyway.

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[–] fartsparkles@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Hacker was a term for creative and expert programmers (and all the hacking away at the keys they did on their keyboards).