The Rise Of The Gentleman Hacker

Re:The Rise Of The Gentleman Hacker by sasvari on Friday December 03, 2010 @05:18AM (#1965343)

Maybe this is the small-scale return of private research units like Bell Labs or (Xerox) PARC (although both of them still exist, they are not as significant as they once were) for the Web: put a group of awesome guys together and just let them cook a bit and see what's coming out ...

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Re:The Rise Of The Gentleman Hacker by wyclif on Friday December 03, 2010 @05:29AM (#1965356)

It's more like the classic definition of skunkworks than "official" research. A good example is NuCalc, which continued to be developed after the project was cancelled by Apple.

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Re:The Rise Of The Gentleman Hacker by koenigdavidmj on Friday December 03, 2010 @10:53AM (#1966245)

We call that being a `research scientist', which basically means playing on the company's dime.

Of course, you generally have to have a Ph.D. and prodigious output of papers to get the job.

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