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“ Crawlers now are trying to create the biggest map of the web, but implicit filtering and intelligent agents—that is where search and discovery will meet.
— Garrett Camp (StumbleUpon founder)
We like telling stories about how late we were up hacking as much as we do about cracking some bug we were after for 3 days, or about crashing a production application with a bit of untested code, or about losing weeks of work in a hard-drive failure. We can all say “yeah, I’ve been there”, and that makes it a common bond in this pseudo-sub-culture of hackerdom.
There are no exact guidelines. There are probably no guidelines at all. The only thing I can recommend at this stage is a sense of humor, an ability to see things in their ridiculous and absurd dimensions, to laugh at others and at ourselves, a sense of irony regarding everything that calls out for parody in this world. In other words, I can only recommend perspective and distance. Awareness of all the most dangerous kinds of vanity, both in others and in ourselves. A good mind. A modest certainty about the meaning of things. Gratitude for the gift of life and the courage to take responsibility for it. Vigilance of spirit.
— Havel upon receiving the Open Society Prize awarded by the Central European University in 1999, trans. by Paul Wilson
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