Hackers & painters
Subtitle: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
Publisher: O'Reilly Vlg. GmbH & Company; O'Reilly Media
Published: 2010-05-01
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9781449389550
Table of contents: title: Why nerds are unpopular: their minds are not on the game; title: Hackers and painters: hackers are makers, like painters or architects or writers; title: What you can't say: how to think heretical thoughts and what to do with them; title: Good bad attitude: like Americans, hackers win by breaking rules; title: The other road ahead: web-based software offers the biggest opportunity since the arrival of the microcomputer; title: How to make wealth: the best way to get rich is to create wealth. And startups are the best way to do that; title: Mind the gap: could "unequal income distribution" be less of a problem than we think?; title: A plan for spam: till recently most experts thought spam filtering wouldn't work. This proposal changed their minds; title: Taste for makers: how do you make great things?; title: Programming languages explained: what a programming language is and why they are a hot topic now; title: The hundred-year language: how will we program in a hundred years? Why not start now?; title: Beating the averages: for web-based applications you can use whatever language you want. So can your competitors; title: Revenge of the nerds: in technology, "industry best practice" is a recipe for losing; title: The dream language: a good programming language is one that lets hackers have their way with it; title: Design and research: research has to be original. Design has to be good.; title: NOTES