Hackers & painters : big ideas from the computer age
"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 increasingly designed and engineered by computer programmers and software designers, by people who call themselves hackers. Who are these people, what motivates them, and why should you care?Consider these facts: Everything around us is turning into computers. Your typewriter is gone, replaced by a computer. Your phone ha
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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
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010