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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... read more

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Preface

1. Why Nerds Are Unpopular
2. Hackers and Painters
3. What You Can't Say
4. Good Bad Attitude
5. The Other Road Ahead
6. How to Make Wealth
7. Mind the Gap
8. A Plan For Spam
9. Taste for Makers
10. Programming Languages Explained
11. The Hundred-Year Language
12. Beating the Averages
13. Revenge of the Nerds
14. The Dream Language
15. Design and Research

Notes
Acknowledgements
Image Credits
Glossary
Index

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  1. Paul Graham (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Country: United States
Publication Date: May 18, 2004
ISBN: 0596006624
Page Count: 271

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