Hackers & painters : big ideas from the computer age
A collection of essays on the computer age offers insights into programmers, programming, and the businesses and business world they are creating, covering such topics as why nerds are both unpopular and eventually successful, the importance of "heretical thinking," hacker culture, programming languages and web development, techniques for becoming wealthy through computers, and more
xi, 258 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780596006624, 0596006624
55499541
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