Lumifer comments on The horrifying importance of domain knowledge - Less Wrong

15 Post author: NancyLebovitz 30 July 2015 03:28PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (236)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: Lumifer 01 August 2015 11:37:26PM 0 points [-]

I'll just link to esr's guide on hacking and ask the people who wrote the articles who they were dealing with.

Of course not. Many hackers are programmers, few programmers are hackers. People fitting esr's description are rare and cubicle peons with a keyboard and a screen are legion.