Hackers & Painters

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  @SanzoMaldini (42)

  In more organized societies, like China, the ruler and his officials used taxation instead of confiscation. But here too we see the same principle: the way to get rich was not to create wealth, but to serve a ruler powerful enough to appropriate it. This started to change in Europe with the rise of the middle class. Now we think of the middle class as people who are neither rich nor poor, but... (更多)

  In more organized societies, like China, the ruler and his officials used taxation instead of confiscation. But here too we see the same principle: the way to get rich was not to create wealth, but to serve a ruler powerful enough to appropriate it. This started to change in Europe with the rise of the middle class. Now we think of the middle class as people who are neither rich nor poor, but originally they were a distinct group. In a feudal society, there are just two classes: a warrior aristocracy, and the serfs who work their estates. The middle class were a new, third group who lived in towns and supported themselves by manufacturing and trade.

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  2011-08-08 21:47:19   回应

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  chapter 6

  cchaos

  a) It's about wealth. Startups are evaluated just by how much wealth they can created. b) Customers are an effective sign to recognize the value of your products. c) Measurement and leverage is the factor of wealth. Once your work is easy to be measured and has much leverage, wealth is a lot closer to you. In an other word , you could double your income as you work two times harder. Worked... (更多)

  a) It's about wealth. Startups are evaluated just by how much wealth they can created.

  b) Customers are an effective sign to recognize the value of your products.

  c) Measurement and leverage is the factor of wealth. Once your work is easy to be measured and has much leverage, wealth is a lot closer to you. In an other word , you could double your income as you work two times harder. Worked ten times harder,you might earn thirty times or more. Thankfully, starting up a company is good way to kick both above.

  d) Difficulty is a proved way to prevent competiters,especially in big company. As far as I am concerned, technology is an aspect, which is a trap for some tech-addicts at the situation that sources badly limited in startups. (收起)

  2012-02-13 22:30:54   回应

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  1. Why Nerds Ard Unpopular

  rns

  Alberti, arguably the archetype of the Renaissance Man, writes that "no art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Battista_Alberti (更多)

  Alberti, arguably the archetype of the Renaissance Man, writes that "no art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it."

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  2012-02-01 16:53:06   回应

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  彼岸嘉瑜 (静。)

  But I think that misfits and iconoclasts are also more likely to become hackers. The computer world is like an intellectual Wild West, where you can think anything you want, if you're willing to risk the consequences. When you tread water, you lift yourself up by pushing water down. Likewise, in any social hierarchy, people unsure of their own position will try to emphasize it by maltreating thos... (更多)

  But I think that misfits and iconoclasts are also more likely to become hackers. The computer world is like an intellectual Wild West, where you can think anything you want, if you're willing to risk the consequences.

  When you tread water, you lift yourself up by pushing water down. Likewise, in any social hierarchy, people unsure of their own position will try to emphasize it by maltreating those they think rank below. I've read that this is why poor whites in the United States are the group most hostile to blacks.

  We need a language that lets us scribble and smudge and smear, not a language where you have to sit with a teacup of types balanced on your knee and make polite conversation with a strict old aunt of a compiler.

  I tended to just spew out code that was hopelessly broken, and gradually beat it into shape. Debugging, I was taught, was a kind of final pass where you caught typos and oversights. The way I worked, it seemed like programming consisted of debugging.

  But when you damp oscillations, you lose the high points as well as the low. This is not a problem for big companies, because they don't win by making great products. Big companies win by sucking less than other big companies.

  If you want to make money, you tend to be forced to work on problems that are too nasty for anyone to solve for free.

  Smilence...

  Nearly all makers have day jobs early in their careers. Painters and writers notoriously do. If you're lucky you can get a day job closely related to your real work. Musicians often seem to work in record stores. A hacker working on some programming language or operating system might likewise be able to get a day job using it.

  Johnson wrote in the preface to his Shakespeare: "He has long outlived his century, the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit. Whatever advantages he might once derive from personal allusions, local customs, or temporary opinions, have for many years been lost; and every topick of merriment or motive of sorrow, which the modes of artificial life afforded him, now only obscure the scenes which they once illuminated. The effects of favour and competition are at an end; the tradition of his friendships and his enmities has perished; his works support no opinion with arguments, nor supply any faction with invectives; they can neither indulge vanity nor gratify malignity, but are read without any other reason than the desire of pleasure, and are therefore praised only as pleasure is obtained...."

  Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design—deciding too early what a program should do. The right tools can help us avoid this danger. A good programming language should, like oil paint, make it easy to change your mind. Dynamic typing is a win here because you don't have to commit to specific data representations up front. But the key to flexibility, I think, is to make the language very abstract. The easiest program to change is one that's short.

  话说，我就是倾向于前期的过度设计... (收起)

  2011-06-06 20:09:54   回应

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  特立独行的鱼

  Sometimes, particularly in university math and science departments, nerds deliberately exaggerate their awkwardness in order to seem smarter. (更多)

  Sometimes, particularly in university math and science departments, nerds deliberately exaggerate their awkwardness in order to seem smarter. (收起)

  2011-08-13 18:10:31   回应

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  特立独行的鱼

  Now most kids have little idea what their parents do in their distant offices, and see no connection between schoolwork and the work they'll do as adults. ...... What happened? We're against a hard one here. The cause of this problem is the same as the cause of so many present ills: specialization. (更多)

  Now most kids have little idea what their parents do in their distant offices, and see no connection between schoolwork and the work they'll do as adults.

  ......

  What happened? We're against a hard one here. The cause of this problem is the same as the cause of so many present ills: specialization. (收起)

  2011-08-13 18:31:49   回应

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  chapter 6

  cchaos

  a) It's about wealth. Startups are evaluated just by how much wealth they can created. b) Customers are an effective sign to recognize the value of your products. c) Measurement and leverage is the factor of wealth. Once your work is easy to be measured and has much leverage, wealth is a lot closer to you. In an other word , you could double your income as you work two times harder. Worked... (更多)

  a) It's about wealth. Startups are evaluated just by how much wealth they can created.

  b) Customers are an effective sign to recognize the value of your products.

  c) Measurement and leverage is the factor of wealth. Once your work is easy to be measured and has much leverage, wealth is a lot closer to you. In an other word , you could double your income as you work two times harder. Worked ten times harder,you might earn thirty times or more. Thankfully, starting up a company is good way to kick both above.

  d) Difficulty is a proved way to prevent competiters,especially in big company. As far as I am concerned, technology is an aspect, which is a trap for some tech-addicts at the situation that sources badly limited in startups. (收起)

  2012-02-13 22:30:54   回应

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  1. Why Nerds Ard Unpopular

  rns

  Alberti, arguably the archetype of the Renaissance Man, writes that "no art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Battista_Alberti (更多)

  Alberti, arguably the archetype of the Renaissance Man, writes that "no art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it."

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Battista_Alberti (收起)

  2012-02-01 16:53:06   回应

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  Chapter 9. Taste for Makers

  onesuper (穷则独善其身，达则兼济姑娘)

  Good design is: simple timeless solves the right problem suggestive often slightly funny hard looks easy uses symmetry resembles nature redesign can copy often strange happens in chunks often daring (更多)

  Good design is:

  simple

  timeless

  solves the right problem

  suggestive

  often slightly funny

  hard

  looks easy

  uses symmetry

  resembles nature

  redesign

  can copy

  often strange

  happens in chunks

  often daring (收起)

  2012-01-15 18:00:33   回应

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