Leveling Up Your Hack Skill Tree
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The life of a hacker is often a lonely journey down a winding road of square pegs and round holes. The problems we face lack the elegant solutions that captivate academia. Our solutions are met with amusement, skepticism and back handed compliments.“Cute hack.”“Sure you made the square peg fit this time but will it work in sub-freezing temperatures?”“It works. But will it scale?”Hell, we’re even taught to ask ourselves these questions to battle test our own solutions. That’s why you’ll often hear a hacker present a solution along with a list of caveats.It might sound like I’m suggesting we repaint the lines on the playing field to encourage more #hacking. I think that would be a good thing. But hackers are a resilient crowd that will continue to produce solutions with little to no fanfare. (...)