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one also gets a whiff of an ideological scent among hackers

Well, that made me laugh.

Yeah. Just a whiff :-)

Why does every study on hackers I've ever read start with how they're misunderstood and that it hasn't been seriously investigated before?

Well - have they?

I got interviewed by her the last time I was in the bay area. Nice person, and she has certainly spent a lot of time learning about different groups of hackers.

I would agree the general public has a murky understanding of the term hackers. But there have been plenty of similar exposés, Steven Levy's probably being the best known, however a little bit out of date.

I think what she is doing falls more towards actual academic research, although of course it's not a hard science.

dan_farmer = mullet of the century.

Makes me wonder about Wietse Venema's hairdo.

Definitely sounds like an interesting class!!

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