you really ought to look in a dictionary before you start using long words you don't quite understand to insult people. That way, you stand a chance of making your target look like an ass, instead of just yourself.
After you've looked up Hypocrite, may I recommend you also check out the following
Shut
Up
You
Vapid
and also
Tool
Deepness is a prequel, but reading it gives away a plot point in Fire that isn't revealed until the end, so I'd disagree and recommend Fire first, then Deepness.
Vernor Vinge is your answer. Heed the Anonymous Coward.
All of his books have hacker links. A Deepness in the Sky and A Fire Upon The Deep are both books about hackers. In one, the protagonist is a combat programmer in a 'mature programming environment' - the ships run on GNU software, but in an unimaginably deep future.. and the other has essentially a three way hacking war as it's backdrop. All brilliant. All written in ways that subtly incorporate hacking into the fabric of the store, rather than making computers the McGuffin.
Not surprising, really, given Vinge's professional background. You write what you know.
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you really ought to look in a dictionary before you start using long words you don't quite understand to insult people. That way, you stand a chance of making your target look like an ass, instead of just yourself. After you've looked up Hypocrite, may I recommend you also check out the following Shut Up You Vapid and also Tool
Deepness is a prequel, but reading it gives away a plot point in Fire that isn't revealed until the end, so I'd disagree and recommend Fire first, then Deepness.
Vernor Vinge is your answer. Heed the Anonymous Coward. All of his books have hacker links. A Deepness in the Sky and A Fire Upon The Deep are both books about hackers. In one, the protagonist is a combat programmer in a 'mature programming environment' - the ships run on GNU software, but in an unimaginably deep future.. and the other has essentially a three way hacking war as it's backdrop. All brilliant. All written in ways that subtly incorporate hacking into the fabric of the store, rather than making computers the McGuffin. Not surprising, really, given Vinge's professional background. You write what you know.