Hackers & Painters

书名：Hackers & PaintersBigIdeasfromtheComputerAge
作者：[美]保罗·格雷厄姆
译者：
ISBN：9781449389550
出版社：O'ReillyMedia
出版时间：2010-6-7
格式：epub/mobi/azw3/pdf
页数：272
豆瓣评分： 9.0

书籍简介：

"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 & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age , by Paul Graham, explains this world and the motivations of the people who occupy it. In clear, thoughtful prose that draws on illuminating historical examples, Graham takes readers on an unflinching exploration into what he calls "an intellectual Wild West." The ideas discussed in this book will have a powerful and lasting impact on how we think, how we work, how we develop technology, and how we live. Topics include the importance of beauty in software design, how to make wealth, heresy and free speech, the programming language renaissance, the open-source movement, digital design, internet startups, and more.

作者简介：

保罗•格雷厄姆，《黑客与画家》一书的作者，硅谷创业之父。1964年，出生于匹兹堡郊区的一个中产阶级家庭。父亲是设计核反应堆的物理学家，母亲在家照看他和他的妹妹。青少年时代，格雷厄姆就开始编程。但是，他还喜欢许多与计算机无关的东西，这在编程高手之中是很少见的。

保罗•格雷厄姆在康奈尔大学读完本科，然后在哈佛大学获得计算机科学博士学位。1995年，他创办了Viaweb，帮助个人用户在网上开店，这是世界上第一个互联网应用程序。1998年夏天，Yahoo!公司收购了Viaweb，收购价约为5000万美元。

此后，他架起了个人网站paulgraham.com，在上面撰写了许许多多关于软件和创业的文章，以深刻的见解和清晰的表达而著称，迅速引起了轰动。2005年，他身体力行，创建了风险投资公司Y Combinator，将自己的理论转化为实践，目前已经资助了80多家创业公司。现在，他是公认的互联网创业权威。

书友短评：

@ 大毛光光头 读起来蛮带劲的。为Nerd们辩白。 @ 是我 实业家 @ 折腾 http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html 作者文集 @ Creasy well… @ 逆铭睡眼惺忪地 hacker的essay集，inspiring points with convincing reasoning。被说动想有空学Lisp和Web开发了呃= = 什么时候看看Compojure？或者RoR（把Ruby作为一种Lisp方言的话）？ @ 虞章 2020/12 Paul Graham真会写，因为是essay合集可以回来重读，或者去他的网站跳着读。 @ Itsamber 10/23-11/13 brief overview. Intersection of arts and computer. @ NPC 这本书题目起太好了，实际上只有为数不多的篇幅提到了画家和骇客。作者很厉害也是早早的创业实现财务自由的人，画家和骇客的类比也很有趣，但他似乎陷入另一种成功人士指点江山的油腻：比如书中大篇幅的对Lisp的推崇。事实上他对Jane Austin的崇拜使得他对所谓品味的评论和对Lisp的安利都不那么令人信服。 @ 夏日普罗旺斯 不愧是paul Graham的作品，每个文章都是独立的，他的对coding，painting的一些见解，简洁明了。值得多读多反思，涵盖的内容发很广。 @ 注销账户 哈哈?去年读过中文版，今年要读英文版啦

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