Care And Feeding For Your Hacker
Selected quotes of wisdom:
3.0: My hacker did something good, and I want to reward him. Good! Here are some of the things most hackers would like to receive in exchange for their work:Respect. Admiration. Compliments. Understanding. Discounts on expensive toys. Money.
I think that I’m lucky to be working in an environment where these steps are followed. It makes me feel like an important part of a team, drives me to do my very best, and makes work exciting and fun.
2.5: But my other workers are offended by my hacker's success, and it hurts their productivity. Do you really need to have workers around who would rather be the person getting something done, than have it done already? Ego has very little place in the workplace. If they can't do it well, assign them to something they can do.
I think that I’m lucky to work in an environment where my skills are appreciated, my relatively young age is not counted against me, and there is very little ego.
4.3: My hacker counts from zero. So does the computer. You can hide it, but computers count from zero. Most hackers do by habit, also.
I’m struggling to remember which language that I used once that had all the loops start at 1. It was quite a long time ago but even then I thought it was a little strange.
Either way, when a hacker/coder/wunderkid/etc is called upon to count the key is to just think zero in your head while saying one out loud. Also, stay away from using arrays and addition, because you could say x[0] + x[5] = 13 and people would look at you funny.