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Hackers & Painters

May 2010

Beginner

272 pages

6h 29m

English

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3.1. The Conformist Test3.2. Trouble3.3. Heresy3.4. Time and Space3.5. Prigs3.6. Mechanism3.7. Why3.8. Pensieri Stretti3.9. Viso Sciolto?3.10. Always Be Questioning
5.1. The Next Thing?5.2. The Win for Users5.3. City of Code5.4. Releases5.5. Bugs5.6. Support5.7. Morale5.8. Brooks in Reverse5.9. Watching Users5.10. Money5.11. Customers5.12. Son of Server5.13. Microsoft5.14. Startups but More So5.15. Just Good Enough5.16. Why Not?

6.1. The Proposition6.2. Millions, not Billions6.3. Money Is Not Wealth6.4. The Pie Fallacy6.5. Craftsmen6.6. What a Job Is6.7. Working Harder6.8. Measurement and Leverage6.9. Smallness = Measurement6.10. Technology = Leverage6.11. The Catch(es)6.12. Get Users6.13. Wealth and Power
7.1. The Daddy Model of Wealth7.2. Stealing It7.3. The Lever of Technology7.4. Alternative to an Axiom
10.1. Machine Language10.2. High-Level Languages10.3. Open Source10.4. Language Wars10.5. Abstractness10.6. Seat Belts or Handcuffs?10.7. OO10.8. Renaissance
12.1. The Secret Weapon12.2. The Blub Paradox12.3. Aikido for Startups
13.1. Catching Up with Math13.2. What Made Lisp Different13.3. Where Languages Matter13.4. Centripetal Forces13.5. The Cost of Being Average13.6. A Recipe13.7. Appendix: Power
14.1. The Mechanics of Popularity14.2. External Factors14.3. Succinctness14.4. Hackability14.5. Throwaway Programs14.6. Libraries14.7. Efficiency14.8. Time14.9. Redesign14.10. The Dream Language
Chapter 1Chapter 2Chapter 3Chapter 4Chapter 5Chapter 6Chapter 7Chapter 8Chapter 9Chapter 10Chapter 11Chapter 12Chapter 13Chapter 14