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• Contents
• Preface
• Chapter 1: Why Nerds Are Unpopular
• Chapter 2: Hackers and Painters
• Chapter 3: What You Can’t Say
• The Conformist Test
• Trouble
• Heresy
• Time and Space
• Prigs
• Mechanism
• Why
• Pensieri Stretti
• Viso Sciolto?
• Always Be Questioning
• Chapter 4: Good Bad Attitude
• Chapter 5: 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?
• Chapter 6: 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
• Chapter 7: Mind the Gap
• The Daddy Model of Wealth
• Stealing It
• The Lever of Technology
• Alternative to an Axiom
• Chapter 8: A Plan for Spam
• Chapter 9: Taste for Makers
• Chapter 10: Programming Languages Explained
• Machine Language
• High-Level Languages
• Open Source
• Language Wars
• Abstractness
• Seat Belts or Handcuffs?
• OO
• Renaissance
• Chapter 11: The Hundred-Year Language
• Chapter 12: Beating the Averages
• The Secret Weapon
• The Blub Paradox
• Aikido for Startups
• Chapter 13: 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
• Chapter 14: The Dream Language
• The Mechanics of Popularity
• External Factors
• Succinctness
• Hackability
• Throwaway Programs
• Libraries
• Efficiency
• Time
• Redesign
• The Dream Language
• Chapter 15: Design and Research
• Notes
• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6
• Chapter 7
• Chapter 8
• Chapter 9
• Chapter 10
• Chapter 11
• Chapter 12
• Chapter 13
• Chapter 14
• Acknowledgments
• Image Credits
• Glossary
• Index