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[3612.72 --> 3613.50] And it's pretty great.
[3614.46 --> 3614.86] Awesome.
[3615.40 --> 3619.06] Earlier in the episode, we talked about features that we don't use.
[3619.32 --> 3626.58] My wish is that there was a way to use immutable JS as, like, the default in the syntax.
[3627.00 --> 3631.94] Like, there could be a Babel plugin for just, like, immutable versions of things.
[3631.94 --> 3642.82] And there actually is a spec, I think, Seb Markage proposed immutable data structures to ECMA, but I think it's dead and it's not going to go.
[3643.40 --> 3644.82] And it makes me sad.
[3644.96 --> 3650.38] But I really want to use immutable JS, but I really hate changing the syntax for everything.
[3650.52 --> 3653.30] I just want native immutable data structures.
[3653.54 --> 3656.70] And so that's a good example of something that I don't use that I wish I could.
[3657.64 --> 3657.90] Cool.
[3659.48 --> 3659.88] Cool.
[3660.82 --> 3661.22] Okay.
[3661.94 --> 3664.48] My pick is a book.
[3665.04 --> 3666.84] It's actually a really old book.
[3667.00 --> 3668.82] It came out, like, in the 80s, I think.
[3669.38 --> 3669.86] 84.
[3670.64 --> 3671.04] Crazy.
[3671.78 --> 3672.98] But it's called Hackers.
[3673.48 --> 3674.60] It is not...
[3674.60 --> 3675.22] I've seen the movie.
[3675.30 --> 3676.16] ...for the film Hackers.
[3676.26 --> 3676.68] It is not.
[3677.32 --> 3678.66] There's no rollerblading.
[3680.78 --> 3687.80] No, Hackers is about the kind of origins of hacker culture, which eventually kind of became early technology and open source culture.
[3687.80 --> 3691.58] So you can skip the third part.
[3691.68 --> 3692.70] The book is in three parts.
[3692.70 --> 3694.94] The third one does not hold up.
[3694.94 --> 3705.20] But the first one is basically from the Tech Model Railroad Club at MIT in the late 50s and early 60s that started using computers in a very different way.
[3705.20 --> 3719.24] And how their kind of culture evolved and became the AI lab at MIT, which spawned a bunch of other AI labs and was like all of the early kind of programming culture came out of what was going on there.
[3719.24 --> 3721.16] What's the third chapter about?
[3721.68 --> 3722.30] So hold on.
[3722.40 --> 3729.00] The second chapter is about kind of the homebrew computer club and early Apple and early computing, like, in the Bay Area.
[3729.32 --> 3737.84] And also how a bunch of, like, really kind of crazy counterculture political figures, like, also informed that culture and what they were doing.
[3738.02 --> 3738.96] And that's super interesting.
[3738.96 --> 3748.32] The third section is about the gaming industry in, like, this in Sierra and all those companies that were, like, in the early 80s.
[3748.54 --> 3752.98] And it was more of, like, a – at the time it was like, oh, and then this is what people are doing right now.
[3753.10 --> 3756.18] But it really doesn't connect very well to the other parts.
[3756.30 --> 3763.58] And it really doesn't hold up as, like, this particular section of computing is not nearly as influential as these other ones, like, in hindsight, right?
[3763.58 --> 3769.06] But also, I will – there's some appendices.
[3769.52 --> 3772.58] One of the appendices is called The Last Hacker.
[3773.16 --> 3784.10] And it's about the last person in the MIT media lab – or, sorry, the MIT AI lab – that is kind of the keeper of the flame for hacker culture.
[3784.90 --> 3792.82] And it's about Richard Stallman before he started the GNU project and before there was even such thing as copyleft licenses or a GPL to argue about.
[3793.58 --> 3797.94] And it is fascinating and explains so much.
[3799.02 --> 3799.38] So, yeah.
[3799.88 --> 3806.46] I've been reading – I've been trying to read a lot about kind of early hacker culture and how the counterculture movement kind of played into all this stuff.
[3806.72 --> 3810.70] And this is, like, one of the best books to really dig into it.
[3811.08 --> 3812.00] So it's by Steve Levy.
[3812.38 --> 3813.46] It's called Hackers.
[3814.54 --> 3815.00] There you go.
[3815.86 --> 3817.30] My pick is the movie Sneakers.
[3818.30 --> 3819.64] Oh, that's a good movie.
[3819.98 --> 3821.08] Oh, my God.
[3821.08 --> 3823.94] It's really the only tech movie that holds up.
[3824.36 --> 3825.38] River Phoenix?
[3826.82 --> 3827.42] Yeah.
[3827.84 --> 3828.18] Yeah.
[3828.86 --> 3829.44] Oh, man.
[3829.70 --> 3830.50] That's a good one.
[3831.04 --> 3831.94] That's a really good one.
[3832.38 --> 3833.66] Some Robert Redford.
[3835.12 --> 3835.72] Okay.
[3836.36 --> 3836.90] Anyway.
[3837.64 --> 3838.08] Anyway.
[3839.26 --> 3840.32] Great talking with y'all.
[3840.46 --> 3841.96] I think that we're just about done now.
[3842.66 --> 3843.68] Rate us on iTunes.
[3844.24 --> 3847.38] Check us out at changelog.com slash jsparty.
[3847.38 --> 3850.18] You can get into our Slack.
[3850.28 --> 3859.58] You can catch us live every Friday at noon Pacific time and something in other time zones.
[3859.94 --> 3861.00] And thank you very much.
[3861.10 --> 3861.40] Goodbye.
[3861.40 --> 3861.48] Bye.
[3862.68 --> 3863.72] All right.
[3863.76 --> 3866.14] That wraps up this episode of JSParty.
[3866.20 --> 3867.06] Hope you enjoyed it.
[3867.32 --> 3870.46] We record this show live every Friday at 3 p.m.
[3870.48 --> 3870.74] U.S.
[3870.82 --> 3871.16] Eastern.
[3871.30 --> 3872.96] So if you want to listen live, you can.
[3873.08 --> 3874.92] Head to changelog.com slash community.
[3875.40 --> 3876.36] Get in Slack.
[3876.74 --> 3878.34] Hang out with us in real time.
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[3886.30 --> 3893.74] This episode was edited by Jonathan Youngblood and the theme music for JSParty is produced by the mysterious Breakmaster Cylinder.
[3894.22 --> 3895.16] We'll see you again next week.
[3895.50 --> 3896.18] Thanks for listening.
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