The items and examples are so
sketchy that to decipher them
may require more sincerity and
curiosity than a non-hacker can
muster.
They then go one to contemplate the intricacies of peg solitaire, at which point your mind can’t help but juxtapose submarine-based global nuclear strategy with goofing off on placemat games at all-night diners over a plate of french toast.
And with that you have to try and gain some perspective. Geeking out about fractals and pentominos and mersenne primes is where it all really starts. Deceptively simple fundamentals are the things that ignite our curiosity.
To try to package it up in a ready made kit can spoil some of the discovery. It’s really about stumbling onto unassuming riddles that don’t give away a hint of anything that you might anticipate as a rewarding surprise, only to encounter something of an anticlimax, if perhaps you sense that it will be spelled out for you. The part that leaps out at you, sometimes, needs to do so with a degree of authenticity.
They then go one to contemplate the intricacies of peg solitaire, at which point your mind can’t help but juxtapose submarine-based global nuclear strategy with goofing off on placemat games at all-night diners over a plate of french toast.
And with that you have to try and gain some perspective. Geeking out about fractals and pentominos and mersenne primes is where it all really starts. Deceptively simple fundamentals are the things that ignite our curiosity.
To try to package it up in a ready made kit can spoil some of the discovery. It’s really about stumbling onto unassuming riddles that don’t give away a hint of anything that you might anticipate as a rewarding surprise, only to encounter something of an anticlimax, if perhaps you sense that it will be spelled out for you. The part that leaps out at you, sometimes, needs to do so with a degree of authenticity.