Hackers & painters : big ideas from the computer age / Paul Graham.
"The computer world is like an intellectual Wild West, in which you can shoot anyone you wish with your ideas, if you're willing to risk the consequences."--Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age, by Paul GrahamWe are living in the computer age, in a world increasingl...
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Table of Contents:
- Why nerds are unpopular: their minds are not on the game
- Hackers and painters: hackers are makers, like painters or architects or writers
- What you can't say: how to think heretical thoughts and what to do with them
- Good bad attitude: like Americans, hackers win by breaking rules
- The other road ahead: web-based software offers the biggest opportunity since the arrival of the microcomputer
- How to make wealth: the best way to get rich is to create wealth. And startups are the best way to do that
- Mind the gap: could "unequal income distribution" be less of a problem than we think?
- A plan for spam: till recently most experts thought spam filtering wouldn't work. This proposal changed their minds
- Taste for makers: how do you make great things?
- Programming languages explained: what a programming language is and why they are a hot topic now
- The hundred-year language: how will we program in a hundred years? Why not start now?
- Beating the averages: for web-based applications you can use whatever language you want. So can your competitors
- Revenge of the nerds: in technology, "industry best practice" is a recipe for losing
- The dream language: a good programming language is one that lets hackers have their way with it
- Design and research: research has to be original. Design has to be good.