{"id":396,"date":"2012-02-02T12:51:36","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T03:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/?p=396"},"modified":"2012-02-02T12:51:36","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T03:51:36","slug":"facebook-and-the-hacker-ethic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/2012\/02\/02\/facebook-and-the-hacker-ethic","title":{"rendered":"Facebook and the Hacker Ethic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/facebook_logo_690x690.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-398\" style=\"float: right; border: 0px initial initial;\" title=\"Facebook logo\" src=\"http:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/facebook_logo_690x690-300x300.png\" alt=\"Facebook logo\" width=\"210\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/facebook_logo_690x690-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/facebook_logo_690x690-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/facebook_logo_690x690.png 690w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If the\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sec.gov\/Archives\/edgar\/data\/1326801\/000119312512034517\/d287954ds1.htm#toc287954_10\">Letter from Mark Zuckerberg<\/a> in Facebook&#8217;s SEC IPO registration is a true representation of how Facebook functions, and they are able to maintain the <a title=\"Jargon File definition of the Hacker Ethic\" href=\"http:\/\/catb.org\/jargon\/html\/H\/hacker-ethic.html\">Hacker Ethic<\/a> he espouses after going public, FB will be a worthwhile long-term financial investment.<\/p>\n<p>In the late 1980s I read about the original definition of hacking in\u00c2\u00a0Steven Levy&#8217;s fascinating telling of the computer industry foundation story,\u00c2\u00a0<em><a title=\"Amazon link to Steven Levy's Hackers - Heroes of the Computer Revolution book\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1449388396\/kidsermonscom\">Hackers &#8211; Heroes of the Computer Revolution<\/a><\/em>. The 25th anniversary edition includes \u00c2\u00a0a 2010 interview with Zuckerberg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; If the\u00c2\u00a0Letter from Mark Zuckerberg in Facebook&#8217;s SEC IPO registration is a true representation of how Facebook functions, and they are able to maintain the Hacker Ethic he espouses after going public, FB will be a worthwhile long-term financial investment. In the late 1980s I read about the original definition of hacking in\u00c2\u00a0Steven Levy&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407,"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions\/407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}