This is not about the hacker mentality. This is a researcher mentality from a daily life perspective. Some people just aren’t curious. I like to understand the math and the computing models behind many things I use. That doesn’t mean I want to know what’s happening in Windows internals or something just because I use Windows everyday. But if I’m creating an app connecting to Office DLLs, I want to know what it does beyond “here’s a bunch of methods and constants you can use”.
I’d further argue that the nature of a hacker / power user is to break things apart once you want to get deep enough. If I need to know where in the cluster my instance of some software got lost into, I should be able to investigate all the tools I have available to somehow find it. Not just give up and say some garbage collector will get it for me.
I’d further argue that the nature of a hacker / power user is to break things apart once you want to get deep enough. If I need to know where in the cluster my instance of some software got lost into, I should be able to investigate all the tools I have available to somehow find it. Not just give up and say some garbage collector will get it for me.