Is this "hacker way"?

AnanthaP · 02-02-2012, 07:21 PM

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/facebo...59?tag=nl.e539

A commentary on facebook's open letter to potential investors.

Also, an extract quoting the "Hacker way"

Quote:

The Hacker Way is an approach to building that involves continuous improvement and iteration. Hackers believe that something can always be better, and that nothing is ever complete. They just have to go fix it — often in the face of people who say it’s impossible or are content with the status quo.

Hackers try to build the best services over the long term by quickly releasing and learning from smaller iterations rather than trying to get everything right all at once. To support this, we have built a testing framework that at any given time can try out thousands of versions of Facebook. We have the words “Done is better than perfect” painted on our walls to remind ourselves to always keep shipping.

Hacking is also an inherently hands-on and active discipline. Instead of debating for days whether a new idea is possible or what the best way to build something is, hackers would rather just prototype something and see what works. There’s a hacker mantra that you’ll hear a lot around Facebook offices: “Code wins arguments.”

Hacker culture is also extremely open and meritocratic. Hackers believe that the best idea and implementation should always win — not the person who is best at lobbying for an idea or the person who manages the most people.

Is this the hacker way?

Is this all the hacker way?

OK

b0uncer · 02-03-2012, 02:46 AM

Blah. If it would be, they would have defined a hacker. I very much doubt if everybody would agree on that, being hackers or not.

There can be your way, my way, Chuck Norris way, even Facebook way--but just like there is no "human way", there is no "hacker way" as long as they're not incorporated.