Hackers & Painters by Graham, Paul -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Hackers & Painters Dedication Acknowledgments Image Credits Note to readers Preface 1. Why Nerds Are Unpopular 2. Hackers and Painters 3. What You Can’t Say

3.1. The Conformist Test 3.2. Trouble 3.3. Heresy 3.4. Time and Space 3.5. Prigs 3.6. Mechanism 3.7. Why 3.8. Pensieri Stretti 3.9. Viso Sciolto? 3.10. Always Be Questioning

4. Good Bad Attitude 5. The Other Road Ahead

5.1. The Next Thing? 5.2. The Win for Users 5.3. City of Code 5.4. Releases 5.5. Bugs 5.6. Support 5.7. Morale 5.8. Brooks in Reverse 5.9. Watching Users 5.10. Money 5.11. Customers 5.12. Son of Server 5.13. Microsoft 5.14. Startups but More So 5.15. Just Good Enough 5.16. Why Not?

6. How to Make Wealth

6.1. The Proposition 6.2. Millions, not Billions 6.3. Money Is Not Wealth 6.4. The Pie Fallacy 6.5. Craftsmen 6.6. What a Job Is 6.7. Working Harder 6.8. Measurement and Leverage 6.9. Smallness = Measurement 6.10. Technology = Leverage 6.11. The Catch(es) 6.12. Get Users 6.13. Wealth and Power

7. Mind the Gap

7.1. The Daddy Model of Wealth 7.2. Stealing It 7.3. The Lever of Technology 7.4. Alternative to an Axiom

8. A Plan for Spam 9. Taste for Makers 10. Programming Languages Explained

10.1. Machine Language 10.2. High-Level Languages 10.3. Open Source 10.4. Language Wars 10.5. Abstractness 10.6. Seat Belts or Handcuffs? 10.7. OO 10.8. Renaissance

11. The Hundred-Year Language 12. Beating the Averages

12.1. The Secret Weapon 12.2. The Blub Paradox 12.3. Aikido for Startups

13. Revenge of the Nerds

13.1. Catching Up with Math 13.2. What Made Lisp Different 13.3. Where Languages Matter 13.4. Centripetal Forces 13.5. The Cost of Being Average 13.6. A Recipe 13.7. Appendix: Power

14. The Dream Language

14.1. The Mechanics of Popularity 14.2. External Factors 14.3. Succinctness 14.4. Hackability 14.5. Throwaway Programs 14.6. Libraries 14.7. Efficiency 14.8. Time 14.9. Redesign 14.10. The Dream Language

15. Design and Research A. Notes

Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14

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