Comments on: Feeling like a hacker again http://danielkitta.org/blog/2006/10/19/feeling-like-a-hacker-again/ Delusional ramblings of a narcistic individual. Fri, 11 Feb 2011 08:00:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: danielk http://danielkitta.org/blog/2006/10/19/feeling-like-a-hacker-again/comment-page-1/#comment-16 danielk Wed, 25 Oct 2006 19:41:01 +0000 http://www.danielkitta.org/blog/2006/10/19/feeling-like-a-hacker-again/#comment-16 The former -- that is, I did too much stuff that wasn't of much use to other people. Actually it wasn't even useful for me, apart from the educational value. What happened is that I worked both by myself and for myself and as a result got trapped within the confines of my own mind. I don't mind working on under-the-hood stuff. Working on publically visible stuff can of course provide you with an additional morale boost, which is great. But in my situation I didn't lack just spectators, but coworkers, too. The former — that is, I did too much stuff that wasn’t of much use to other people. Actually it wasn’t even useful for me, apart from the educational value. What happened is that I worked both by myself and for myself and as a result got trapped within the confines of my own mind.

I don’t mind working on under-the-hood stuff. Working on publically visible stuff can of course provide you with an additional morale boost, which is great. But in my situation I didn’t lack just spectators, but coworkers, too.

]]> By: Gabriel Pannwitz http://danielkitta.org/blog/2006/10/19/feeling-like-a-hacker-again/comment-page-1/#comment-15 Gabriel Pannwitz Wed, 25 Oct 2006 18:03:13 +0000 http://www.danielkitta.org/blog/2006/10/19/feeling-like-a-hacker-again/#comment-15 "It’s really not a good idea to only do stuff that nobody else will ever see, even if it is interesting and mind-bending. I used to do that way too much." Can you please elaborate a little? Do you mean that you did to much of your own private stuff? Or rather that you worked on projects that were more "under the hood" so to speak, meaning that they did stuff that are mostly invisible to the end user? Thanks, Gabriel “It’s really not a good idea to only do stuff that nobody else will ever see, even if it is interesting and mind-bending. I used to do that way too much.”

Can you please elaborate a little?

Do you mean that you did to much of your own private stuff?

Or rather that you worked on projects that were more “under the hood” so to speak, meaning that they did stuff that are mostly invisible to the end user?

Thanks,

Gabriel

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