Hackers and Painters View By Paul Graham
| Title | : | Hackers and Painters |
| Author | : | Paul Graham |
| Format | : | Kindle Edition |
| Page | : | 272 pages |
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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 from Hackers Painters Big Ideas from the Computer Age, by Paul Graham We are living in the computer age, in a world increasingly designed and engineered by computer programmers and software designers, by peopl 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 from Hackers Painters Big Ideas from the Computer Age, by Paul Graham We 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 has turned into a computer So has your camera Soon your TV will Your car was not only designed on computers, but has processing power in it than a room sized mainframe did in 1970 Letters, encyclopedias, newspapers, and even your local store are being replaced by the Internet Hackers Painters Big Ideas from the Computer Age, by Paul Graham, explains this world and the motivations of the people who occupy it In clear, thoughtful prose that draws on illuminating historical examples, Graham takes readers on an unflinching exploration into what he calls an intellectual Wild West The ideas discussed in this book will have a powerful and lasting impact on how we think, how we work, how we develop technology, and how we live Topics include the importance of beauty in software design, how to make wealth, heresy and free speech, the programming language renaissance, the open source movement, digital design, internet startups, and And here s a taste of what you ll find in Hackers Painters In most fields the great work is done early on The paintings made between 1430 and 1500 are still unsurpassed Shakespeare appeared just as professional theater was being born, and pushed the medium so far that every playwright since has had to live in his shadow Albrecht Durer did the same thing with engraving, and Jane Austen with the novel Over and over we see the same pattern A new medium appears, and people are so excited about it that they explore most of its possibilities in the first couple generations Hacking seems to be in this phase now Painting was not, in Leonardo s time, as cool as his work helped make it How cool hacking turns out to be will depend on what we can do with this new medium Andy Hertzfeld, co creator of the Macintosh computer, says about Hackers Painters Paul Graham is a hacker, painter and a terrific writer His lucid, humorous prose is brimming with contrarian insight and practical wisdom on writing great code at the intersection of art, science and commerce Paul Graham, designer of the new Arc language, was the creator of Yahoo Store, the first web based application In addition to his PhD in Computer Science from Harvard, Graham also studied painting at the Rhode Island School of Design and the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence
about Author
Paul Graham is an essayist, programmer, and programming language designer In 1995 he developed with Robert Morris the first web based application, Viaweb, which was acquired by Yahoo in 1998 In 2002 he described a simple statistical spam filter that inspired a new generation of filters He s currently working on a new programming language called Arc, a new book on startups, and is one of the par Paul Graham is an essayist, programmer, and programming language designer In 1995 he developed with Robert Morris the first web based application, Viaweb, which was acquired by Yahoo in 1998 In 2002 he described a simple statistical spam filter that inspired a new generation of filters He s currently working on a new programming language called Arc, a new book on startups, and is one of the partners in Y Combinator.Paul is the author of On Lisp Prentice Hall, 1993 , ANSI Common Lisp Prentice Hall, 1995 , and Hackers Painters O Reilly, 2004 He has an AB from Cornell and a PhD in Computer Science from Harvard, and studied painting at RISD and the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence.Paulgraham.com got 10.6 million page views in 2008 
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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 consequenc
272 pagesPaul Graham
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