On 5/12/05, Suresh Ramasubramanian <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Vamsee Kanakala <vamlists@xxxxxxx> wrote:
This book was named after his essay "Hackers and Painters"
(http://paulgraham.com/gh.html) which is, in a way pretty popular. Only,
it doesn't stand in front of a *real* hacker and painter. Maciej
Ceglowski was a painter before he became a hacker. A pretty good one at
that. Here's his article refuting Paul Graham's article:
http://www.idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm
Just to put things in perspective ;-)
Paul Graham has a really inflated view of his talents .. and seems to believe
bayesian filtering is a cure all for spam.
I was in boston in late 2003 .. I and a few friends went to a "meet the
expert"
type meeting he was speaking at, and asked him a few questions he wasn't too
happy with ..
srs
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