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And now for an extra special shoutout for someone who exemplifies the exact type of member we cherish here on EH-Net. When building a community, one can only hope for active members to possess a positive attitude, willingness to help others and give back to the community that gave so much to all of us. EH-Net member, rvs, in simply trying to spread the word, retweeted an offer for SensePost Continue reading →
The meaning of the word ‘hacker’ in its original sense was, possibly, born in MIT in 60-s, long before computers got wide-spread. Then it was a part of the local slang and could mean a simple but rude solution of some problem, damned sly trick of students (the author was usually called a hacker). Up to that time words ‘hack’ and ‘hacker’ were used by various reasons irrelatively to computer technique in general.
A slang word ‘to hack’ (to cut, mangle) was originally born. It meant Continue reading →
Sergey Lukianenko introduced an extract from ‘Hymn of hackers’ thought out by him in the novel «Labyrinth of reflections».
Life hack (from English life hack) is a set of methods and ways of ‘breaking’ the environment to simplify achievements of the set goals with the help of various useful advice and fast ones. Life hacker does not usually create new methods but just possesses the existing ones. The movement of life hackers was supposably born in the environment of computerniks.
A Britain journalist Danny O’Brian invented the term ‘life hacking’ in 2004. He connected Continue reading →
