{"id":72,"date":"2005-10-02T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-02T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.igalia.com\/juanjo\/blog\/?p=72"},"modified":"2005-10-02T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-02T08:00:00","slug":"how-to-become-a-hacker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/juanjo\/2005\/10\/02\/how-to-become-a-hacker\/","title":{"rendered":"How to become a hacker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liked a lot <a href=\"http:\/\/nat.org\/2005\/september\/#How-to-become-a-hacker\">Nat Friedman&#8217;s answer<\/a> to the question &#8220;How can I become a hacker?&#8221; that he and <a href=\"http:\/\/tirania.org\/\">Miguel de Icaza<\/a> get all the time during his talks and travels: just get the code, open it, improve something and send the patch to the mailing list.<\/p>\n<p>In the answer, I just miss the social part of being a hacker, including the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hacker_ethic\">Hacker Ethic<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hacker_culture\">Hacker Culture<\/a>. I don&#8217;t see a hacker as someone that changes code, but as someone seing changing code as a way of changing the world.<\/p>\n<p>I guess this is another distinction between Free Software and Open Source supporters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liked a lot Nat Friedman&#8217;s answer to the question &#8220;How can I become a hacker?&#8221; that he and Miguel de Icaza get all the time during his talks and travels: just get the code, open it, improve something and send the patch to the mailing list. In the answer, I just miss the social part &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/juanjo\/2005\/10\/02\/how-to-become-a-hacker\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to become a hacker<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freesoftware","category-gnome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/juanjo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/juanjo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/juanjo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/juanjo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/juanjo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/juanjo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/juanjo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/juanjo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/juanjo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}