Hated this book...the only book in the history of my book reading which I left half way (apart for some Math books of course). Not only was it full of grammatical mistakes, but also a lot of stupid crap. Felt so strongly abt it that I had to put up this comment here.
The Life of a Hacker
Atul (The Shaolin) posted a poem on his blog titled - 'The Life of a Programmer'. You can read it here -
http://the-shaolin.blogspot.com/2005/01/life-of-programmer.html
Here is my version - 'The Life of a Hacker'. I wrote this one to bring forth the two contrasting attitudes of people in the software industry.
I start my day by sitting on a chair,
Giving my console a nice warm stare.
By evening I'm done with some more hacking,
Oh! This life is getting so exciting.
Like many, I entered this world of hackerdom,
Opportunities are many and there is plenty of freedom.
Dreams of joining the likes of Stallman and Wall,
And to be hailed as hacker by one and by all.
Thus, I entered the world of bytes
And realised the reality of copyrights.
And that the world of patents isn't all that nice,
Behind the trademarks, lie deceit and lies.
Seeing beyond the monitor,
Bringing
An 'eye opener'
Let's say that you are teaching a class. Let's say that you are teaching Unix.
You have drawn a neat sketch of the inode-wise layout of the disk and you are
explaining the concept of the hierarchical filesystem and directories and
inodes and hard and soft links with the help of your neat diagram. Suddenly
you discover that one of the students is not getting the whole picture ...
because he can't see ... *because he is blind*.
At that moment I didn't really feel the impact because I was too engrossed in
the subject, too engrossed in teaching. But the whole thing really hit me
hard on the bus ride home. A thousand questions were raised, not many
answered.
First, about teaching - in such a situation, do you teach for the lowest
denominator or the higher one. Doing anything is going to unfair to the other
category. But in this case, the whole problem is magnified to a huge extent.
I obviously cannot rely so much on gr
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