[anc2020]

blech. this is an alright recipe to being a standard nerd/web developer and reads far too much like a list of things the author has done, especially the hobbies part which imo has bugger-all to do with being a hacker.

my personal idea of a hacker is someone who knows _everything_ and is not afraid to take advantage of that knowledge. of course it's impossible to know everything, but the best hackers I know do a very good job of approximating that :)

[krainboltgreene]

If you don't want to burn out while you try to know everything, you'll get a side hobby.

[anc2020]

Sure, but it's just standard practice to do so, and taking a hobby doesn't really get you any closer to being a hacker. And putting "womenz" and "drinking" as hobbies is just lame.

Also not wanting to give the wrong impression, the folks I'm thinking of are not "know-it-alls", they don't tell you random crap to sound smart, but I can learn a lot from talking to them normally.