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Hack This, Please

Posted by Hemos on from the but-don't-crack-it dept.

Andy Kessler, the author of Wall Street Meat had a recent piece in the WSJ, and now reprinted on his own site. It's a piece about how companies are shifting much more to "hacker" friendly models. It's a particular area of interest for me, as it's something that I've talked about with the folks at BCG for a while.

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  1. Still not that friendly by Avumede · · Score: 4, Funny

    I dunno where you are getting this. These models still don't give me the time of day! Even after I tell them I'm a hacker! They just stand there looking all aloof and beautiful. Maybe I just haven't run into the new kind yet.

  2. A little behind the times by signe · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Every business can and should hire a hack and set him loose on their stuff..."

    It seems to me, most companies already have one. The usual title is CEO.

    -Todd

    --
    "The details of my life are quite inconsequential..."
  3. My toaster by kir · · Score: 5, Funny

    I hacked my toaster to only burn the toast. It's not *exactly* what I wanted, but I did it ALLLL by myself.

    --
    3cx.org - A truly bad website.
  4. Re:Not smart to sue your customers by moresheth · · Score: 2, Funny

    Not to mention the Cue Cat looked like a penis-on-a-string. Might be a market for that in certain portions of the population, but not really for us geeks.

  5. I hacked my underwear by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    For some reason there was no hole at the front, so a cut a hole... just now I relized that they must be girls underwear!

  6. Re:Sheesh indeed! by sploxx · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think this paragraph proves this. Would anyone except /.ers really read it to the end?! :)

  7. Re:M$ ? by DrDebug · · Score: 2, Funny

    You left out several pieces:

    -- Don't get it completely right until the third version; but let the customer pay for your development alpha and beta releases.

    -- Wrap the code in an air- and watertight EULA that is enforced by half the lawyers in the state of Washington (all under retainer to MicroSoft).

    -- Undermine, buy, or crush any other company that has a product that slightly smells of your precious product (even it it IS better).

    Yep. That looks like their recipe for success.