Sorry for the delay. Disclaimer: I turned the thesis in already but I'm still waiting for my supervisor's feedback. So it might be completely wrong and has not been reviewed until now.
@eat_veggies The writeup is very useful. Can you describe the process of learning two concepts simultaneously? Or you knew before the parts of Bitorrent and how to implement it in some other language?
CCC is great event, but the last years has more to do politics, surveillance, gender issues, etc.. than deep-tech content. And Leipzig blah, bring it back to Berlin, please :)
Anyways I look forward to hear Peter Sewell this year, probably his talk* from few years ago is one of my favorite CCC talks overall.
Aaron could manage the trial if only he was regularly going to some sort of psychotherapy and was taking medicaments. The trial only facilitated his inner problems.
Also he was primarily a hacker, and his biggest accomplishment is not JSTOR but RSS specification and web.py.
Btw how do you make sure you are not hacked or that some frivolous attacker didn't accessed something valuable?