Programming is Forgetting: Toward a New Hacker Ethic

(...) this isn't what I want my culture to be. And then I asked myself, given that I grew up with the idea of the hacker ethic being all-important, what assumptions and attitudes have I been carrying with myself because of my implicit acceptance of those values?

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