recommended by some study group
essay from 2003: Hacker and Painters essay
book summary: https://cdn.bookey.app/files/pdf/book/en/hackers-and-painters.pdf
read to learn his taste
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Aura then and now?
my take: this is very thai bad highschool experiences
hated not by malice but by persecution.
bad school culture hinder meaningful development and supportive communities
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ปัญหาบูลลี่ ธรรมชาติของคน
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art and craft vs research
computer ‘science’
how that misalignment is bad for everyone
research vs hands-on: knowledge vs efficiency (impact)
user experiences, empathy in design (similar to artists must consider their audience)
(guess: software in that era: vim, tmux, HCI in that era with smart and intuitive key-binds)
computer language for iterative development (flexible and adaptable)
recognition of hacking from 2003 era.
⭐⭐(seems to be quite enjoyable to read)
(seems to focuses on society)
3(not finished yet)
sapere aude?
what is deemed acceptable might indicate a lack of independent thought
taboo things
Heresy
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⭐⭐⭐for me cuz it’s about be free from social norm + not risking your self for some petty wars that you don’t want to join.
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Aura?
richard feynman mentioned
Authority and Disobedience
intellectual property concerns (innovation vs laws)
loosen some rules : innovative, econ success
principle of america
restriction hinder creativity
linked
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the other road ahead (ch5)
not yet read
but seems to related to SaaS
⭐⭐how to make wealth
from desktop to server-based software
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start up = squeeze both money gain and pain
money != wealth (what we want)
money = medium, shorthand for whatever ppl want
What most businesses really do is make
wealth. They do something people want
pie fallacy: don’t make pie, let’s get from others
fixing your car = create wealth
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“Someone graduating from college thinks, and is told, that he
needs to get a job, as if the important thing were becoming a
member of an institution. A more direct way to put it would be:
you need to start doing something people want. You don’t need
to join a company to do that. All a company is is a group of
people working together to do something people want. It’s doing
something people want that matters, not joining the group.”
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To get rich you need to get yourself in a situation with two things,
measurement and leverage, where measurement
comes from working with a small group, and leverage from developing new techniques.
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small group of competant ppl + care about money
tech = leverage
⭐mind the gap
thriving economy (good) vs thief(bad)
skills, creativity, technology >> wealth generation
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spam
(i think this section should be told to others by hinting and given other some examples before straight to the conclusion (aj.dave method))
baysian filter : words appeared in spam vs non spam
before that:
it could be more personalized for each user
(spam and non-spam corpuses)
white list
baysian adapt to evolving nature of spam
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taste
good designer vs mere technicians
ability to recognize quality and is rooted in principles
characteristics of good design
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programming language
renaissance
the hundred year language
beating the averages
Eric Raymond bro mentioned
lisp
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revenge of the nerds
there is no silver bullet
java is not always good
many cases, lisp is goated
succinctness and elegant
ref to tcpc.me
created on: Sat Nov 29 2025