Zuck Letter 'The Hacker Way' | Wired Business. Mark Zuckerberg giving the keynote at SXSW conerence in 2009. Credit: Jim Merithew/Wired.com On Wednesday, Facebook filed the prospectus for a $5 billion initial public offering. Here is CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s letter to potential investors. Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission — to make the world more open and connected. We think it’s important that everyone who invests in Facebook understands what this mission means to us, how we make decisions and why we do the things we do. At Facebook, we’re inspired by technologies that have revolutionized how people spread and consume information.
Today, our society has reached another tipping point. There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. We hope to strengthen how people relate to each other. Personal relationships are the fundamental unit of our society. The Hacker Way Move Fast. Hacker | Wikipedia. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hacker may refer to: Technology[edit] Entertainment[edit] People[edit] Real[edit] Fictional[edit] Other[edit] Hacker Brewery, and its beer, since 1972 merged into Hacker-Pschorr BreweryHacker-Craft, boats made by the Hacker Boat CompanyHacker Radio Ltd, a British manufacturer of consumer electronics products See also[edit] Hacker | Define Hacker at Dictionary.
Paul Graham on The Word "Hacker" April 2004 To the popular press, "hacker" means someone who breaks into computers. Among programmers it means a good programmer. But the two meanings are connected. To programmers, "hacker" connotes mastery in the most literal sense: someone who can make a computer do what he wants—whether the computer wants to or not. To add to the confusion, the noun "hack" also has two senses. Believe it or not, the two senses of "hack" are also connected. Hacking predates computers. It is sometimes hard to explain to authorities why one would want to do such things. Those in authority tend to be annoyed by hackers' general attitude of disobedience.
This attitude is sometimes affected. But even factoring in their annoying eccentricities, the disobedient attitude of hackers is a net win. For example, I suspect people in Hollywood are simply mystified by hackers' attitudes toward copyrights. Partly because some companies use mechanisms to prevent copying. Data is by definition easy to copy. Hacker. Tech Model Railroad Club. The Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC) is a student organization at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and one of the most celebrated model railroad clubs in the world, because of its historic role as a wellspring of hacker culture.[1] Formed in 1946, its HO scale layout specializes in automated operation of model trains. History[edit] The first meeting was organized by John Fitzallen Moore and Walter Marvin in November 1946.[2] Moore and Marvin had membership cards #0 and #1. They served as the first president and vice-president respectively, and switched these roles the following year.
Circa 1948, the club obtained space in Room 20E-214, on the third floor of Building 20, a "temporary" World War II-era structure, sometimes called "the Plywood Palace,"[3] which had been home to the MIT Radiation Lab during World War II. At the club itself, a semi-automatic control system based on telephone relays was installed by the mid-1950s. Vocabulary and neologisms[edit] System layout[edit] Draft and initial FB discussion.