Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution - 25th Anniversary Edition
by Steven Levy · 18 May 2010 · 598pp · 183,531 words
a presence in his life, Nelson did have the companionship of fellow hackers. He moved into a house with Gosper and two others. Although this “Hacker House” was in nearby Belmont, then shifted to Brighton, Nelson resisted buying a car. He couldn’t stand driving. “It takes too much processing to deal
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open to the elements, for wind to blow through and rain to fall through, and no doors or walls prevented free movement. A perfect, endless hacker house. But the builders would soon put walls to keep the world from peering in the house, and doors to keep the people in the house
The Infinite Machine: How an Army of Crypto-Hackers Is Building the Next Internet With Ethereum
by Camila Russo · 13 Jul 2020 · 349pp · 102,827 words
three months. He was depressed for a few weeks but bounced back and started a recruiting company with a friend he met in the dingy hacker house they shared with fifteen other men in San Francisco. Again, that was short-lived, and his friend pushed him out of the company. He was
Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey Into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley
by Corey Pein · 23 Apr 2018 · 282pp · 81,873 words
month. * * * Lacking the financial stability required to secure a lease, much less a mortgage, my best hope upon leaving Hacker Condo was to find another “hacker house.” These were the products of disruptive innovation in urban real estate. The city was once riddled with small apartments and single-family homes that sheltered
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filled to capacity, or beyond, with techie forty-niners. Unlike a youth hostel or a skid row hotel, the hacker houses often required a minimum stay of one month or more. Some hacker houses were attached to startup investment incubators or shared workspaces. Others amounted to little more than flimsy bunks in a windowless
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a job interview. I wrote back and set up a time. In the meantime, I read up on the history of the city’s best hacker house. The neighbors, it seemed, were not thrilled with the arrival of such illustrious innovators. On the night before Halloween—which happened to coincide with a
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this mess stood a timid redhead with a bright red shirt and matching red-framed eyeglasses. I recognized her from a news story about the hacker house in which she had talked about her philosophy of “radical personal transparency”—she was a sometime camgirl, or online adult performer—as well as her
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to that rapturous moment when our technological capabilities exceed currently understood limits of physics and consciousness. Advances made within military laboratories, corporate research departments, and hacker houses will accelerate until the sheer energy of all that innovation ignites a great spark, at which time all will behold the physical and metaphysical merger
Masters of Deception: The Gang That Ruled Cyberspace
by Michelle Slatalla and Joshua Quittner · 15 Jan 1995
. Secret Service agents started having frequent conversations with prosecutors in the U. S. Attorney's office. They made plans to execute search warrants at the hackers' houses. The Learning Link crash was, in fact, the event that four years later would cause a prosecutor to smile wryly, as he explained, "This made
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long months. After all, they've already turned over enough information from the DNRs to enable the prosecutors to apply for search warrants at the hackers' houses. They even passed along the tip about The Learning Link to the Secret Service. It was up to the government now to get the search
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fuzz moustaches and slicked-back buzz cuts. You can't miss them. The gathering is their "meeting, " and it's organized by the semi-official hacker house organ, a quarterly magazine called 2600 that's published out of Long Island. The magazine's name is an allusion to history: back in the
Democratizing innovation
by Eric von Hippel · 1 Apr 2005 · 220pp · 73,451 words
cheaply—and also enabled them to spread hacker norms of behavior. The communal hacker culture was very strongly present among a group of programmers—software hackers—housed at MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in the 1960s and the 1970s (Levy 1984). In the 1980s this group received a major jolt when MIT
The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order
by Paul Vigna and Michael J. Casey · 27 Jan 2015 · 457pp · 128,838 words
Mission District. The sparks that led to some of the most exciting developments in bitcoin first arose from conversations and brainstorming sessions inside this ramshackle “hacker house.” Sitting on the corner of Twentieth and Mission Streets, with its unassuming entrance behind an olive tree (the first missionaries brought the olive trees with
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of a movement,” said Taariq Lewis at a Sunday meetup at 20Mission, “and part of something special.” Lewis is a bitcoiner who now runs the hacker house’s regular meetups. He came out to San Francisco from New York’s Spanish Harlem, by way of Boston, another compulsive, restless entrepreneur. He’d
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he could organize it, he figured, he could finagle the rent. Kenna had always been intrigued by the idea of what’s popularly called a hacker house, with people working together and pooling resources, “but until I got to San Francisco, I didn’t realize you could actually do it.” He soon
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in exchange for a small stake in his company; Kenna would essentially act as an angel investor for Cassano. So the Floridian moved to the hacker house in December. He had housing, office space, a product, and a backer. All he needed was a name. “I kept saying, Raspberry Pi, paper wallet
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provide these budding companies with work space and living space and bring mentors in to advise them (the main difference between an accelerator and a hacker house, it appears, is the money). It’s a crash course in how to turn their ideas into businesses, a boot camp for start-ups. Draper
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,” Schechter explains. When we met, he was living off savings and his wife’s job. In June 2014, he was staying at Circuit House, a hacker house like 20Mission, down in San Jose. “It’s like being in college again,” he joked. But if PeerPal didn’t take off, he knew he
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’s most important tech hubs, if not the biggest. It is sometimes called Silicon Savannah. The city even has its own version of 20Mission, a hacker house called iHub that’s not far from the University of Nairobi’s science center. It occupies a spacious, modern space on the fourth floor of
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-transfers-lessons-from-the-kenya-emergency-response. Perhaps inevitably, then, someone like Duncan: Elizabeth Rossiello, interviewed by Paul Vigna, May 9 and 18, 2014. a hacker house called iHub: http://www.ihub.co.ke/. from what Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto calls: Hernando de Soto, The Mystery of Capital (Basic Books, 2000
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The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze
by Laura Shin · 22 Feb 2022 · 506pp · 151,753 words
from it or had their devices hacked simultaneously. In Barcelona, Griff, Jordi, and the team of Griff’s new venture were drinking wine on a hacker house porch with a view of La Sagrada Familia when Griff got a WhatsApp call from Swarm City’s King Flurkel about the hack. Griff assumed
App Kid: How a Child of Immigrants Grabbed a Piece of the American Dream
by Michael Sayman · 20 Sep 2021 · 285pp · 91,144 words
, a guy I knew a little from the Internet but had never met in person messaged me that a room had opened up in his “hacker house” in San Francisco. Wow, that was easy, I thought. “I’m interested!” I typed back. “Details?” The gist was that everyone in the house (he
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down my living situation, so a week before heading back to California, I confirmed with the guy that I would like to move into the hacker house. One week later, I flew back to San Francisco and Ubered straight from the airport to my new home in the city at around ten
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the door behind him, leaving me alone in my closet. * * * — I couldn’t get out the door fast enough after my first night in the hacker house. It had been an agonizing seven hours of tossing and turning in my airless closet, the beat of the nightclubs throbbing through my dreams. For
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without a word to the random people I apparently lived with now. This would be my routine for the rest of my time in the hacker house, which I already knew wouldn’t last long. God, I hated that apartment, and my dank, noisy San Francisco neighborhood, and the long commute to
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did I have to be depressed about, anyway? I had money. I had everything I’d ever wanted. I’d even gotten out of the hacker house and was living in a fancy two-bedroom in a sunny neighborhood in the city. What a spoiled brat. * * * — The morning after the progress report
Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology From Capitalism
by Wendy Liu · 22 Mar 2020 · 223pp · 71,414 words
, the tiniest thing could tip us over into the trough. One day I came across a WIRED profile of some startup founders living in a hacker house in San Francisco.5 They were young, smart, hardworking; they cycled between optimistic highs and cynical lows; their startup didn’t make it. The piece
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a young founder whom Nick had recently connected with on LinkedIn, and we didn’t know what to expect. It turned out to be a hacker house inhabited by about a dozen people in the startup scene, all founders or soon-to-be founders waiting for the right bolt of inspiration to
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these were the kind of people we would be hanging out with. I shared his unease, but I wasn’t quite ready to agree. Maybe hacker houses just attracted the worst bits of San Francisco? I still wanted to move here, I told him; after all, what other place would be as
Cooking for Geeks
by Jeff Potter · 2 Aug 2010 · 728pp · 182,850 words
the laying hen populations of North America. If you’re cracking a few dozen eggs into a bowl for an omelet brunch at your local hacker house every week, let’s just say that odds are you’ll eventually crack a bad egg. Luckily, this isn’t a problem if those eggs
How to American: An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents
by Jimmy O. Yang · 13 Mar 2018 · 190pp · 59,892 words
Kings of Crypto: One Startup's Quest to Take Cryptocurrency Out of Silicon Valley and Onto Wall Street
by Jeff John Roberts · 15 Dec 2020 · 226pp · 65,516 words
When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach
by Ashlee Vance · 8 May 2023 · 558pp · 175,965 words
Cadillac Desert
by Marc Reisner · 1 Jan 1986 · 898pp · 253,177 words