Hacker Culture

My presentation at BarcampJB 2015. I talked about the meaning of hacking, and clarify some misconceptions.

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1. Hacker Culture Leong Hean Hong 2015-11-14
3. What is “HACK”? “The act of engaging in activities (such as programming or other media) in a spirit of playfulness and exploration” Wikipedia (http://bit.ly/1RTTLqX) Use creative methods to solve problems and overcome limitations. Keywords: exploring, learning, fun, creativity
4. Life Hacks
5. IKEA Hacks
6. Hackerspace Community-operated workspace where people with common interests can meet, socialize and collaborate.
7. HackerspaceJB
8. HackerspaceSG
9. Geek House (Tokyo)
10. Hack + Marathon = Hackathon
11. Hackathon • An event when programmers meet to do collaborative computer programming • Sometime 24 hours or more • Can be a competition with prizes • Sometime with themes like solving a problem or using an new technology • Not just for programming, it can be hardware hackathon, music hackathon, ...
12. At SuperHappyDevHouse in Singapore
13. So You Want To Be A Hacker?