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"Dabblers and Blowhards" - hackers are nothing like painters [2005]
About two years ago, the Lisp programmer and dot-com millionaire Paul Graham wrote an essay entitled Hackers and Painters , in which he argues that his approach to computer programming is better described by analogies to the visual arts than by the phrase "computer science".
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On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 12, 2010 | "Dabblers and Blowhards" - hackers are nothing like painters [2005] by mati | 95 | 24 |
| Jul 7, 2008 | Dabblers and Blowhards - A Criticism of PG by smanek | 62 | 57 |
| Nov 9, 2022 | Dabblers and Blowhards by nivethan | 58 | 15 |
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