Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age

Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Why Nerds Are Unpopular
Chapter 2: Hackers and Painters
Chapter 3: What You Can’t Say
	The Conformist Test
	Trouble
	Heresy
	Time and Space
	Prigs
	Mechanism
	Why
	Pensieri Stretti
	Viso Sciolto?
	Always Be Questioning
Chapter 4: Good Bad Attitude
Chapter 5: The Other Road Ahead
	The Next Thing?
	The Win for Users
	City of Code
	Releases
	Bugs
	Support
	Morale
	Brooks in Reverse
	Watching Users
	Money
	Customers
	Son of Server
	Microsoft
	Startups but More So
	Just Good Enough
	Why Not?
Chapter 6: How to Make Wealth
	The Proposition
	Millions, not Billions
	Money Is Not Wealth
	The Pie Fallacy
	Craftsmen
	What a Job Is
	Working Harder
	Measurement and Leverage
	Smallness = Measurement
	Technology = Leverage
	The Catch(es)
	Get Users
	Wealth and Power
Chapter 7: Mind the Gap
	The Daddy Model of Wealth
	Stealing It
	The Lever of Technology
	Alternative to an Axiom
Chapter 8: A Plan for Spam
Chapter 9: Taste for Makers
Chapter 10: Programming Languages Explained
	Machine Language
	High-Level Languages
	Open Source
	Language Wars
	Abstractness
	Seat Belts or Handcuffs?
	OO
	Renaissance
Chapter 11: The Hundred-Year Language
Chapter 12: Beating the Averages
	The Secret Weapon
	The Blub Paradox
	Aikido for Startups
Chapter 13: Revenge of the Nerds
	Catching Up with Math
	What Made Lisp Different
	Where Languages Matter
	Centripetal Forces
	The Cost of Being Average
	A Recipe
	Appendix: Power
Chapter 14: The Dream Language
	The Mechanics of Popularity
	External Factors
	Succinctness
	Hackability
	Throwaway Programs
	Libraries
	Efficiency
	Time
	Redesign
	The Dream Language
Chapter 15: Design and Research
Notes
	Chapter 1
	Chapter 2
	Chapter 3
	Chapter 4
	Chapter 5
	Chapter 6
	Chapter 7
	Chapter 8
	Chapter 9
	Chapter 10
	Chapter 11
	Chapter 12
	Chapter 13
	Chapter 14
Acknowledgments
Image Credits
Glossary
Index