This is what happens when one guy practices art every day for nine years

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Post by sadiq » Fri, Sep 23, 2011, 9:39 PM UTC

This is what happens when one guy practices art every day for nine years
conceptart.org

Re: This is what happens when one guy practices art every day for nine years

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Post by absconditus » Fri, Sep 23, 2011, 10:39 PM UTC

How is this relevant to HN?

Re: This is what happens when one guy practices art every day for nine years

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Post by hyperbovine » Fri, Sep 23, 2011, 10:41 PM UTC

absconditus wrote: post #2

How is this relevant to HN?

Hackers are like painters, didn't you get the memo.

Re: This is what happens when one guy practices art every day for nine years

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Post by jgmmo » Fri, Sep 23, 2011, 10:45 PM UTC

Pretty impressive. Just keeps pounding the 10,000 hrs rule into my head. I need to make a program a day for 9 years.

Re: This is what happens when one guy practices art every day for nine years

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Post by bgentry » Fri, Sep 23, 2011, 10:45 PM UTC

absconditus wrote: post #2

How is this relevant to HN?

Hackers and Painters, by Paul Graham: http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html

Re: This is what happens when one guy practices art every day for nine years

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Post by bbq » Fri, Sep 23, 2011, 10:45 PM UTC

absconditus wrote: post #2

How is this relevant to HN?

Well, we all know it takes 10,000 hours of conscious practice to become an expert.

And if you buy the Hackers & Painters analogy, you'll see programming, marketing, bizdev, etc as arts.

It can be hard to observe improvement in these areas; however in the link it's very easy to track the author's improvement.

It's a quite visceral manifestation of improvement - you see the results of daily practice at a glance. It's a reminder to practice, to be better.

Re: This is what happens when one guy practices art every day for nine years

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Post by bbq » Fri, Sep 23, 2011, 10:47 PM UTC

jgmmo wrote: post #4

Pretty impressive. Just keeps pounding the 10,000 hrs rule into my head. I need to make a program a day for 9 years.

Indeed. It's all too easy (for me) to fall off the horse and all too hard to get back on.

Re: This is what happens when one guy practices art every day for nine years

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Sep 23, 2011, 10:48 PM UTC

absconditus wrote: post #2

How is this relevant to HN?

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Re: This is what happens when one guy practices art every day for nine years

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Post by danilocampos » Fri, Sep 23, 2011, 10:51 PM UTC

absconditus wrote: post #2

How is this relevant to HN?

I need to build a bot that detects and replies to these comments:

"Because n people voted it so.

'On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups.'"

Re: This is what happens when one guy practices art every day for nine years

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Post by antirez » Fri, Sep 23, 2011, 11:05 PM UTC

danilocampos wrote: post #9

absconditus wrote: post #2

How is this relevant to HN?

I need to build a bot that detects and replies to these comments: "Because n people voted it so. 'On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups.'"

+1, and Honestly this is much more in topic for hackers than "how to avoid to get gamed by your VC in ten rules".