Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age

big ideas from the computer age

272 pages

English language

Published May 7, 2004

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978-0-596-00662-4
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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 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 more 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 …

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This is a collection of essays written by Paul Graham (I'm assuming you know who he is). Basically, you can read in any order and skip what you don't like. The chapters about Lisp and language design are the best. He had some time learning art in Italy so random art subjects appear here and there in the essay is quite interesting. He's quite assertive on some subjects so ready to be disapproval of some. They are essays after all.

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