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tbueno 's review for:
Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
by Paul Graham
This is a nice collection of articles from Paul Graham, one of the few essay authors in the tech world. The book is nice to read and full of life interesting opinions like:
"Empathy is probably the single most important difference between a good hacker and a great one. Some hackers are quite smart, but practically solipsists when it comes to empathy. It’s hard for such people to design great software, because they can’t see things from the user’s point of view.”
Graham stars talking about how he believes good hackers are like artists, moves on to give startup tips and closes the book exploring the importance of using good programming languages (instead of average ones).
"Technology often should be cutting-edge. In programming languages, as Erann Gat has pointed out, what “industry best practice” actually gets you is not the best, but merely the average. When a decision causes you to develop software at a fraction of the rate of more aggressive competitors, “best practice” does not really seem the right name for it.”
"Empathy is probably the single most important difference between a good hacker and a great one. Some hackers are quite smart, but practically solipsists when it comes to empathy. It’s hard for such people to design great software, because they can’t see things from the user’s point of view.”
Graham stars talking about how he believes good hackers are like artists, moves on to give startup tips and closes the book exploring the importance of using good programming languages (instead of average ones).
"Technology often should be cutting-edge. In programming languages, as Erann Gat has pointed out, what “industry best practice” actually gets you is not the best, but merely the average. When a decision causes you to develop software at a fraction of the rate of more aggressive competitors, “best practice” does not really seem the right name for it.”