> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
Article written by a complete idiot, agreed. Just because your computer doesn't air-drop you in a hostile land of command lines and forces you to program or be left watching a blinking cursor slowly burn in your screen doesn't mean "Johnny" is unable to program.
In 2006 Johnny could download Visual Studio Express on his Dell. In 1976 Johnny would be typing in programs from magazines and hoping the power wouldn't glitch out before he could save to tape.
