Hackers and Painters
Why nerds are unpopular
- popularity is something you have to work at, nerds just don’t care
Hackers and Painters
- both are makers
What you can’t say
- question hidden assumptions, taboos
Good bad attitude
- hackers win by breaking the rules
The other road ahead
- benefits of web-based software
Mind the gap
- unequal income distribution is not the real problem
A plan for spam
Taste for makers
- Good design is simple, timeless, solves the right problem, suggestive, slightly funny, hard, looks easy, uses symmetry, resembles nature, is redesign, can copy, often strange, happens in chunks, often daring
Programming languages explained
The hundred year language
The dream language
Beating the averages
Revenge of the nerds
Design and Research
- Research has to be original, design has to be good