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Essays

Essays

Title:	Essays
Author:	Graham Paul
Оценка:	3.0 of 5, readers votes - 2
Genre:	computers
Table of Contents:	hide Table of Contents Programming Bottom-Up Lisp for Web-Based Applications Incremental Development Interactive Toplevel Macros for Html Embedded Languages Closures Simulate Subroutines Beating the Averages The Secret Weapon The Blub Paradox Aikido for Startups Notes Javas Cover Being Popular 1 The Mechanics of Popularity 2 External Factors 3 Brevity 4 Hackability 5 Throwaway Programs 6 Libraries 7 Syntax 8 Efficiency 9 Time 10 Redesign 11 Lisp 12 The Dream Language Notes Five Questions about Language Design Guiding Philosophy Open Problems Little-Known Secrets Ideas Whose Time is Returned Pitfalls and Gotchas The Roots of Lisp 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? Notes What Made Lisp Different Why Arc Isn Especially Object-Oriented Taste for Makers Good design is simple. Good design is timeless. Good design solves the right problem. Good design is suggestive. Good design is often slightly funny. Good design is hard. Good design looks easy. Good design uses symmetry. Good design resembles nature. Good design is redesign. Good design can copy. Good design is often strange. Good design happens in chunks. Good design is often daring. Notes What Languages Fix Succinctness is Power Hypothesis Metrics Design Comparison The Taste Test Restrictiveness Readability To What Extent? Languages, not Programs 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 Notes A Plan for Spam _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Appendix: Examples of Filtering Appendix: More Ideas Appendix: Defining Spam Notes: Design and Research Better Bayesian Filtering Tokens Performance Future Notes Why Nerds are Unpopular The Hundred-Year Language Notes If Lisp is So Great Hackers and Painters Notes Filters that Fight Back Notes What You Can Say The Conformist Test Trouble Heresy Time and Space Prigs Mechanism Why Pensieri Stretti Viso Sciolto? ABQ The Word "Hacker" The Python Paradox Great Hackers Edisons More than Money The Final Frontier Interesting Nasty Little Problems Clumping Recognition Cultivation Notes The Age of the Essay Mods No Defense Trying The River Surprise Observation Disobedience Notes What the Bubble Got Right 1. Retail VC 2. The Internet 3. Choices 4. Youth 5. Informality 6. Nerds 7. Options 8. Startups 9. California 10. Productivity Whats New Notes Bradleys Ghost Made in USA Notes What Youll Wish Youd Known Upwind Ambition Corruption Curiosity Now Notes How to Start a Startup The Idea People What Customers Want Raising Money Not Spending It Should You? Notes A Unified Theory of VC Suckagepad Notes Undergraduation Hacking Math Everything Jobs Grad School Notes Writing, Briefly Return of the Mac Notes Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas The Artix Phase The Still Life Effect Muck Hyenas A Familiar Problem Copper and Tin Notes The Submarine Symbiosis Buzz Online Notes Hiring is Obsolete Market Rate Product Development Trend Investors The Open Cage Risk The Man is the Customer Grad School Experience A Public Service Message Notes What Business Can Learn from Open Source Amateurs Workplaces Bottom-Up Startups Notes After the Ladder Inequality and Risk Investors Founders Growth Wealth and Power Notes What I Did this Summer Age Morale What Got Learned Independence Notes Ideas for Startups Questions Upwind Doodling Problems Wealth Design for Exit The Woz Route Notes The Venture Capital Squeeze The Solution(s) How to Fund a Startup Friends and Family Consulting Angel Investors Seed Funding Firms Venture Capital Funds Stage 1: Seed Round Stage 2: Angel Round Step 3: Series A Round Deals Fall Through Notes Web 2.0 Origins 1. Ajax 2. Democracy 3. Don Maltreat Users The Common Thread Notes 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 Notes Good and Bad Procrastination How to Do What You Love Jobs Bounds Sirens Discipline Two Routes Notes Are Software Patents Evil? Notes The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn 1. Release Early. 2. Keep Pumping Out Features. 3. Make Users Happy. 4. Fear the Right Things. 5. Commitment Is a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy. 6. There Is Always Room. 7. Don Get Your Hopes Up. Speed, not Money Notes How to Be Silicon Valley Two Types Not Bureaucrats Not Buildings Universities Personality Nerds Youth Time Competing Notes Why Startups Condense in America 1. The US Allows Immigration. 2. The US Is a Rich Country. 3. The US Is Not (Yet) a Police State. 4. American Universities Are Better. 5. You Can Fire People in America. 6. In America Work Is Less Identified with Employment. 7. America Is Not Too Fussy. 8. America Has a Large Domestic Market. 9. America Has Venture Funding. 10. America Has Dynamic Typing for Careers. Attitudes How To Do Better Capital Gains Immigration A Good Vector Notes The Power of the Marginal Outsiders Insiders Tests Anti-Tests Risk Delegation Focus Less Responsibility Audience Hacking Inappropriate Notes The Island Test Copy What You Like How to Present to Investors 1. Explain what you e doing. 2. Get rapidly to demo. 3. Better a narrow description than a vague one. 4. Don talk and drive. 5. Don talk about secondary matters at length. 6. Don get too deeply into business models. 7. Talk slowly and clearly at the audience. 8. Have one person talk. 9. Seem confident. 10. Don try to seem more than you are. 11. Don put too many words on slides. 12. Specific numbers are good. 13. Tell stories about users. A Students Guide to Startups Plus Minus Now Notes The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups 1. Single Founder 2. Bad Location 3. Marginal Niche 4. Derivative Idea 5. Obstinacy 6. Hiring Bad Programmers 7. Choosing the Wrong Platform 8. Slowness in Launching 9. Launching Too Early 10. Having No Specific User in Mind 11. Raising Too Little Money 12. Spending Too Much 13. Raising Too Much Money 14. Poor Investor Management 15. Sacrificing Users to (Supposed) Profit 16. Not Wanting to Get Your Hands Dirty 17. Fights Between Founders 18. A Half-Hearted Effort Notes Mind the Gap The Daddy Model of Wealth Stealing It The Lever of Technology Alternative to an Axiom Notes How Art Can Be Good Audience Error Making It Notes Learning from Founders Is It Worth Being Wise? Curve Split New Limits Recipes Different Notes Why to Not Not Start a Startup 1. Too young 2. Too inexperienced 3. Not determined enough 4. Not smart enough 5. Know nothing about business 6. No cofounder 7. No idea 8. No room for more startups 9. Family to support 10. Independently wealthy 11. Not ready for commitment 12. Need for structure 13. Fear of uncertainty 14. Don realize what you e avoiding 15. Parents want you to be a doctor 16. A job is the default Notes Microsoft is Dead Notes Two Kinds of Judgement The Hackers Guide to Investors 1. The investors are what make a startup hub. 2. Angel investors are the most critical. 3. Angels don like publicity. 4. Most investors, especially VCs, are not like founders. 5. Most investors are momentum investors. 6. Most investors are looking for big hits. 7. VCs want to invest large amounts. 8. Valuations are fiction. 9. Investors look for founders like the current stars. 10. The contribution of investors tends to be underestimated. 11. VCs are afraid of looking bad. 12. Being turned down by investors doesn mean much. 13. Investors are emotional. 14. The negotiation never stops till the closing. 15. Investors like to co-invest. 16. Investors collude. 17. Large-scale investors care about their portfolio, not any individual company. 18. Investors have different risk profiles from founders. 19. Investors vary greatly. 20. Investors don realize how much it costs to raise money from them. 21. Investors don like to say no. 22. You need investors. 23. Investors like it when you don need them. Notes An Alternative Theory of Unions The Equity Equation Notes Stuff Holding a Program in Ones Head How Not to Die News from the Front Notes How to Do Philosophy Words History Theoretical Knowledge The Singularity A Proposal Notes The Future of Web Startups 1. Lots of Startups 2. Standardization 3. New Attitude to Acquisition 4. Riskier Strategies are Possible 5. Younger, Nerdier Founders 6. Startup Hubs Will Persist 7. Better Judgement Needed 8. College Will Change 9. Lots of Competitors 10. Faster Advances A Series of Tubes Why to Move to a Startup Hub Notes Six Principles for Making New Things Trolls Notes A New Venture Animal You Weren Meant to Have a Boss Trees Corn Syrup Programmers Consequences Notes

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