jef@ace.ee.lbl.gov (Jef Poskanzer) (01/12/90)
In the referenced message, burch@quik07.enet.dec.com (Ben Burch) wrote: }I think here we have the beginnings of a war over the definition of the term }hacker! } }I think that a "hacker" is one who programs computer systems for the }love of the }task, e.g., a computer artist. This is your definition. It is even the original definition. It is *NOT* the only definition. Please do not chase off the telecom hackers. You clearly have a lot to learn from them. For instance, perhaps you can get Paula to tell you about TRW. Obligatory hacking report: today I'm going to make a first cut at generating real-time audio accompaniment for my real-time graphics hack "squig". Squig moves various shapes around the screen while mutating and rotating the colormap. I'm going to add a -l flag that will make it log the current shape and colors, plus a timestamp, every hundred milliseconds or so. Then I'll pipe that to a separate program which will do waveform interpolation and additive synthesis based on the input, while keeping in sync with the timestamps. --- Jef Jef Poskanzer jef@well.sf.ca.us {ucbvax, apple, hplabs}!well!jef "Thirty inches of thigh-slappin' blood-pumpin' nuclear brain damage."