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Tomorrow I was traveling back to Varanasi from Kanpur in a bus. There was a small girl in front of my seat. She was creating a lot of nuisance and as I have nothing to do in the bus so, I start observing her. She was moving here and there, sometimes even pushing her body out of window. One thing I noticed about her is that she was constantly asking questions like; when this bus is going to move?, why should not I budge my body out?, why I will get hurt if I am moving my body outside? She was asking whatever came in her mind and of whatever she was not sure. A few days back I attended the lecture of Dr. Amarnath Sen, a scientist from CG&CRI, he was constantly trying to give emphasis on asking question as that is the best way to learn. He said that one must have curiosity and nosiness in order to study. Then I started drawing a parallel between what Dr. Sen had said and actions of small girl. Girl was inquisitive about whatever she was seeing and wants answers of questions which ca

What Is A Hacker?The Jargon File contains a bunch of definitions of the term `hacker', most having to do with technical adeptness and a delight in solving problems and overcoming limits. If you want to know how to become a hacker, though, only two are really relevant.There is a community, a shared culture, of expert programmers and networking wizards that traces its history back through decades to the first time-sharing minicomputers and the earliest ARPAnet experiments. The members of this culture originated the term `hacker'. Hackers built the Internet. Hackers made the Unix operating system what it is today. Hackers run Usenet. Hackers make the World Wide Web work. If you are part of this culture, if you have contributed to it and other people in it know who you are and call you a hacker, you're a hacker.The hacker mind-set is not confined to this software-hacker culture. There are people who apply the hacker attitude to other things, like electronics or music -- actuall