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  1. Essays

    The Age of the Essay: The Python Paradox: Great Hackers: Mind the Gap: How to Make Wealth: The Word "Hacker" What You Can't Say: Filters that Fight Back: Hackers and Painters: If Lisp is So Great: The Hundred-Year Language: Why Nerds are Unpopular: Better Bayesian Filtering: Design and Research: A Plan for Spam: Revenge of the Nerds ...

  2. Beating the Averages

    Ordinarily technology changes fast. But programming languages are different: programming languages are not just technology, but what programmers think in. They're half technology and half religion.[6] And so the median language, meaning whatever language the median programmer uses, moves as slow as an iceberg.

  3. What I Worked On

    Before college the two main things I worked on, outside of school, were writing and programming. I didn't write essays. I wrote what beginning writers were supposed to write then, and probably still are: short stories. My stories were awful. They had hardly any plot, just characters with strong feelings, which I imagined made them deep.

  4. Paul Graham (programmer)

    Paul Graham (/ ɡ r æ m /; born November 13, 1964) [3] is an English-American computer scientist, writer, entrepreneur and investor.His work has included the programming language Arc, the startup Viaweb (later renamed Yahoo! Store), co-founding the startup accelerator and seed capital firm Y Combinator, his essays, and Hacker News.. He is the author of the computer programming books On Lisp ...

  5. Essays by Paul Graham

    A collection of essays by Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham.

  6. Hackers & Painters

    Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age is a collection of essays from Paul Graham discussing hacking, programming languages, ... "Hackers & Painters" is also the title of one of those essays. The image on its cover is 'The Tower of Babel' by Pieter Brugel. [6] Table of contents. Why Nerds Are Unpopular;

  7. On Paul Graham's Essays, and of Y Combinator

    Some of the finest prose I've ever come across has been in the pages written by Paul Graham. In an essay that I wrote earlier (entitled On Lisp and Paul Graham)—and where I was referring to the two fine books Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp by Peter Norvig (Morgan Kaufmann, 1992) and On Lisp: Advanced Techniques for Common Lisp by Paul Graham ...

  8. Hackers and Painters: Essays on Technology, Start-ups, and Programming

    Paul Graham is a well-known figure in the tech world, famous for creating the programming language Lisp and co-founding Y Combinator, a startup incubator. His experience and unique viewpoint shine through in this book. The essays are written in a friendly and engaging style, making even complex ideas easy to grasp.

  9. PDF Paul Graham is an essayist, programmer, and programming language

    Startup ideas are ideas for companies, and companies have to make money. And the way to make money is to make something people want. Wealth is what people want. I don't mean that as some kind of philosophical statement; I mean it as a tautology. So an idea for a startup is an idea for something people want.

  10. Paul Graham: On Determination & Success, Hard Work, Wealth Creation

    Paul Graham is a programmer, writer, and thinker, mostly known as the co-founder of Y Combinator - the world's most successful startup incubator. Paul wrote many great essays from which I decided to draw a couple of conclusions about success, technology, and startups. He released anthology "Hackers

  11. Reflections on Paul Graham's Essays

    1. I've been a reader of Paul Graham's essays since around sophomore year of college. Back then it was tremendously infrequent (and lacking depth), but this past year, it has been quite the ...

  12. Programming Bottom-Up

    Programming Bottom-Up. 1993. (This essay is from the introduction to On Lisp .) It's a long-standing principle of programming style that the functional elements of a program should not be too large. If some component of a program grows beyond the stage where it's readily comprehensible, it becomes a mass of complexity which conceals errors as ...

  13. Paul Graham 101

    Paul Graham 101. Misc. There's probably no one who knows more about startups than Paul Graham. Having helped thousands of startups through Y Combinator, the startup accelerator he co-founded, there's a thing or two to learn from his essays. And Graham's wisdom isn't limited to startups either; his essays, read by millions, touch on ...

  14. My Favorites List of Paul Graham's Essays. : r/ycombinator

    Hey Everyone, Hope you're doing well. I wanted to share my favorite essays of Paul Graham. I believe listening and reading advice from experienced people is a way of encoding success into your brain. In a sense, our brains let us code almost anything. Counterintuitively, reading does not seem like a part of this encoding because we forgot ...

  15. Paul Graham Essay, Wikipedia, Age, Blog, Wife, and Net Worth

    Paul Graham Essay | Essays | Best Essays | Essays Pdf. ... O'Reilly Media, which includes a talk on the growth of Viaweb and what Paul perceives to be the advantages of Lisp to programming it. In 2001, Paul reported that he was working on a new dialect of Lisp called Arc. Arc was released on 29 January 2008. Over the years since, Paul has ...

  16. Paul Graham Essay Summaries

    It's Charisma, Stupid. Schlep Blindness. Startup = Growth. Taste for Makers. The Age of the Essay. The Python Paradox. Two Kinds of Judgement. Undergraduation. What You Can't Say.

  17. The Hundred-Year Language

    The Hundred-Year Language. April 2003. (This essay is derived from a keynote talk at PyCon 2003.) It's hard to predict what life will be like in a hundred years. There are only a few things we can say with certainty. We know that everyone will drive flying cars, that zoning laws will be relaxed to allow buildings hundreds of stories tall, that ...

  18. Fifth anniversary of Nalchik raid marked as instability in Kabardino

    On October 13, a rally took place in Nalchik in commemoration of large scale armed clashes in the city on the same day back in 2005. Relatives of victims from the opposing sides, the police and the insurgents, attended the gathering. An estimated 35 policemen and servicemen, 14 civilians and 92 insurgents died in the October 13, 2005 attack, while …

  19. Refworld

    Refworld is the leading source of information necessary for taking quality decisions on refugee status. Refworld contains a vast collection of reports relating to situations in countries of origin, policy documents and positions, and documents relating to international and national legal frameworks. The information has been carefully selected and compiled from UNHCR's global network of field ...

  20. Hackers and Painters

    Hacking and painting have a lot in common. In fact, of all the different types of people I've known, hackers and painters are among the most alike. What hackers and painters have in common is that they're both makers. Along with composers, architects, and writers, what hackers and painters are trying to do is make good things.

  21. In Counterculture San Francisco, a Church Has Become the Place to Be

    Aug. 10, 2024. San Francisco residents have always celebrated the new, the innovative, the cutting-edge. The weirder, the better. But these days, they are flocking to a surprising venue for the ...

  22. The Little Prince Kabardian

    The Adyghe (Circassian/Cherkess) language is, along with Abkhazian, Abaza and Umykh, part of the West Caucasian language group. The language is divi­ded into two main dialects: Western Adyghe [адыгэбзэ] is spoken in the autono­mous Republic of Adygeya while Eastern Adyghe/Kabardian [къэбэрдеибзэ] is spoken in the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria.

  23. Lisp

    The Roots of Lisp: What Made Lisp Different: A Lisp Startup: Arc: A New Lisp: Lisp Code: Lisp Links: Lisp History: Lisp Quotes: Lisp FAQ