The hacker ethic

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1. chrisweeklyAug 2021
   See also the classic book "The Hacker Ethic" by Pikka Himanen (foreword by Linus Torvalds).

   https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4690

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2. chrisweeklyApr 2021
   Yes. See also a great little book from ages ago called "The Hacker Ethic" by Pekka Himanen, which examines and critiques this "Protestant work ethic".
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3. RandomPersonaApr 2009
   If you're honestly asking this question, I think you've missed the point of a lot of what's said here on HN.

   You might even want to pick up a copy of "The Hacker Ethic" by Pekka Himanen.

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4. pwdisswordfish9Dec 2022
   There's a typo in the quote attribution; "Hacker's" should be "Hackers"

   The Open Library page for the book in question, where you can borrow a digital copy to read, is https://openlibrary.org/works/OL7921693W/The_hacker_ethic

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5. agentultraNov 2013
   I've worked in startups for most of my 10 years being paid to program computers. I probably average about 1-1.2 companies a year. The reason being that most of the companies I've worked for folded, pivoted or down-sized. It doesn't help that the technology sector in my neck of the woods is anemic at best and supported by very cautious investors.

   I've never had a problem. I can only recall being asked about it by one or two people. I was just honest and they didn't seem to mind. I got at least one job despite it. I might have missed out on another offer because of it but I doubt it.

   The weird thing is that this is just the sort of thing I was warned about before I even got to college. I was told that the norm would be to have many different jobs in my lifetime and not to expect to be with the same employer throughout my career as my grandparents were. I just see it as the new normal; a symptom of a network economy as Pekka Himanen describes in The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age. A bunch of people get together, build something cool, make some money and move on. We're not in the business of building widgets on an assembly line after all.

   But maybe my path has allowed me to be blissfully ignorant of the whole "job-hopper," conundrum. I'm sure it still exists. I just think it's a very backwards ideal in a creativity and knowledge-based line of work such as programming.

   Update It's not for a lack of trying to stay on a long-term project. One startup I worked at for 2 years and had no intention of leaving. It was being shuttered and I got laid off. That is a fairly common occurrence for startups in my neck of the woods where funding and investment is anemic and the majority of talent is funneled off to SV.

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6. doolsOct 2010
   The Hacker Ethic by Pekka Himanen ... TL;DR
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