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Why doesn't someone's experience attempting to write a technical book (even if they failed for personal reasons) belong on Hacker News? EDIT: above post originally said "This doesn't belong on Hacker News", but is has been edited out.
It’s the emails I object to.
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Why doesn't someone's experience attempting to write a technical book (even if they failed for personal reasons) belong on Hacker News? EDIT: above post originally said "This doesn't belong on Hacker News", but is has been edited out.
What are you replying to? Did GP edit their comment?
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What organization hosts HN? From what computer science construct does that organization's name come from? Who founded that organization? How did that person get wealthy enough to start seed funding other companies? Did that person write not one, but two books on Common Lisp? Just some points to ponder.
Oh really, that's interesting. Is that sort of info widely known among the HN user base and I'm an ignoramus or is it a case of some of the users of longer standing being vocal about Lisp?
Paul Graham's essays are widely known among the HN user base, especially the "Beating the Averages" [1] one. Some of those who've read it know a bit more about the deeper history. And others obsessed with the "10x programmer" myth and they randomly stumble upon Lisp as one of the many "magic oils" that are rumored to make one into such a mythical creature.
It's a big circle jerk imho, but there's a lot to be learned for any programmer from modern Lisp-family languages like Clojure or Scheme/Racket. CL is also worth playing with if you want to know how a truly-hyper-flexible language feels like, but it's probably not a good tool to use unless your problem requires you to invent a new programming language but at the same time you have no time/budget/people to actually do it "the academic way" so you need a weird ducktaped-nuclear-power-tool to hack your way at the problem. Guess that's why some folk in quantum computing and computational chemistry and other on-the-edge-fields tend to pick it from time to time, but it gets replaced with other tech after the really hard research problem gets solved and the software gets rewritten to something else for v2.0. I alway re-try playing with it but it never sticks in my head, the [Python + (C++ or Rust or Go)] combo always wins over it.
I know Mike. He was editor of my first book and I still deal with him. He’s about the most standup guy I’ve ever worked with. If you’re thinking about writing a book, pitch Mike. I can’t recommend him more. I needed help with having the confidence to get my thoughts down on the first book and he coached me through it. Disclaimer: 4x O’Reilly author and contributor to their blog. Don’t think there’s a financial incent…
Why doesn't someone's experience attempting to write a technical book (even if they failed for personal reasons) belong on Hacker News? EDIT: above post originally said "This doesn't belong on Hacker News", but is has been edited out.
[2011].
Why do people tag the year on articles? I feel like hackers cling to the “if it’s not new, it’s not worthy” paradigm. Update: Thanks for all the replies, makes sense. Why downvote an honest question?
> I feel like hackers cling to the “if it’s not new, it’s not worthy” paradigm.
is incorrect and reeks of an accusation of elitism which is not fair in this case.
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Oh really, that's interesting. Is that sort of info widely known among the HN user base and I'm an ignoramus or is it a case of some of the users of longer standing being vocal about Lisp?
I would guess that the majority of HN users never even think about the fact that the site is affiliated with Y Combinator and its associated personalities.
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Oh really, that's interesting. Is that sort of info widely known among the HN user base and I'm an ignoramus or is it a case of some of the users of longer standing being vocal about Lisp?
Pretty sure HN itself is written with Lisp.