
| Preface; 1. Why Nerds Are Unpopular Their minds are not on the game; 2. Hackers and Painters Hackers are makers, like painters or architects or writers; 3. What You Can't Say How to think heretical thoughts and what to do with them; 4. Good Bad Attitude Like Americans, hackers win by breaking rules; 5. The Other Road Ahead Web-based software offers the biggest opportunity since the arrival of the microcomputer; 6. How to Make Wealth The best way to get rich is to create wealth. And startups are the best way to do that; 7. Mind the Gap Could "unequal income distribution" be less of a problem than we think?; 8. A Plan for Spam Till recently most experts thought spam filtering wouldn't work. This proposal changed their minds; 9. Taste for Makers How do you make great things?; 10. Programming Languages Explained What a programming language is and why they are a hot topic now; 11. The Hundred-Year Language How will we program in a hundred years? Why not start now?; 12. Beating the Averages For web-based applications you can use whatever language you want. So can your competitors; 13. Revenge of the Nerds In technology, "industry best practice" is a recipe for losing; 14. The Dream Language A good programming language is one that lets hackers have their way with it; 15. Design and Research; Research has to be original. Design has to be good; Notes; Acknowledgments; Image credits; Glossary; Index |
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