Ok, fair enough. Sorry for getting prickly, but somehow in a few very short lines you managed to make me feel like you were implying that I'm "one of the TechCrunch masses", I "need to be spoonfed", I "don't know what 'hack' stands for", and, incidentally, that I missed the point of the article.
(Disclaimer: I am not an official spokesperson for hackers at large, nor do I intend to suggest I am, and so I'm speaking for myself)
I don't think the hacker idealism is naive, or humble for that matter. You could call it naive, but only in the sense that it's willing to question everything. As for humble, there's nothing humble about believing that everyone else might have had it wrong for the last 50 years and that you might know a better way :-)
Being a proponent of that approach, I certainly agree that the world could use even more idealism, pragmatism and not-so-humble irreverence, though :-)
LOL! I suppose I was naively idealistic about describing naive idealism!
Your last sentence really sums it up for me. THE POWER of what Umair is saying is: "I have done the research, and it is razor-sharp, economically-grounded strategy to be idealistic/irreverent/naive/etc."
(Disclaimer: I am not an official spokesperson for hackers at large, nor do I intend to suggest I am, and so I'm speaking for myself)
I don't think the hacker idealism is naive, or humble for that matter. You could call it naive, but only in the sense that it's willing to question everything. As for humble, there's nothing humble about believing that everyone else might have had it wrong for the last 50 years and that you might know a better way :-)
Being a proponent of that approach, I certainly agree that the world could use even more idealism, pragmatism and not-so-humble irreverence, though :-)