AMMDI is an open-notebook hypertext writing experiment, authored by Mike Travers aka mtraven. It's a work in progress and some parts are more polished than others. Comments welcome! More.
what a good meme – it encodes something that is invisible yet palpable to those with the right mindset. An aspiration. There must be something analogous in other fields, some platonic aim.
If there is a spiritual component to hacking it is probably to be found there.
This is a bit of hacker jargon, which like most of the languages and concepts of the computational world, encodes a deep philosophical position in a non-serious manner.
I should grab the standard definition: Right Thing
The implications are that there is some Platonic ideal out there, and our technical decisions should be evaluated in terms of how close they approximate this ideal.
But there's also a performative, social aspect to this term. It implies or creates a certain brotherhood, those who are adept enough to know what the Right Thing is like, those qualified to speak in its name. The speaker not only implies a bond, it creates it.