I've seen enough "programmers are interchangable cogs" thinking and solitaire-playing, email-reading managers get large flat panel monitors (back when they were more rare), while engineers scraped by with crappy resources to decide to put a stake in the ground for our new startup.
You'd think the "hacker as maker" is more generally understood, but just recently one of the (super brilliant) people we interviewed told a story of how he interned somewhere, hired as a linux hacker, and then he was given a 5 year old windows laptop and forbidden from installing linux on it.
You'd think the "hacker as maker" is more generally understood, but just recently one of the (super brilliant) people we interviewed told a story of how he interned somewhere, hired as a linux hacker, and then he was given a 5 year old windows laptop and forbidden from installing linux on it.