In the "King of the Ball" section of Linus Torvalds's Just for Fun , he discusses the rise of Linux, some of the interesting and funny...

In Linus Torvalds' "Just For Fun", he discusses his upbringing, how he got to the self proclaimed nerd he is now, and how he created...

In ESR's writings in The Cathedral and the Bazaar , he talks about the customs and cultures that have, whether consciously or...

In Eric S. Raymond's The Cathedral and the Bazaar , he discusses the idea of the "cathedral model" of software development and the...

In this week's three readings from Graham's Hackers & Painters , he discusses the success of startups, the success of his own startup,...

In the three Paul Graham readings for this week from Hackers and Painters , he discusses different programming languages, their...

In Hackers & Painters , Paul Graham explores his perspective on hackers, their motivations, and his identity as a nerd, a painter, a rule...

The third generation of hackers that followed the "True Hackers" and the "Hardware Hackers" marked a shift from the curiosity and novelty...

As the title of the post here implies, this second section of Steven Levy's book moves into how money became a dividing force in the...

Hack: "a project undertaken or a product build not solely to fulfill some constructive goal, but with some wild pleasure taken in mere...