Paul Graham (born 1964) is an English computer scientist, essayist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and author. He is best known for his work on the programming language Lisp, his former startup Viaweb (later renamed Yahoo! Store), cofounding the influential startup accelerator and seed capital firm Y Combinator, his essays, and Hacker News.
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Why do people move to suburbia? To have kids! So no wonder it seemed boring and sterile. The whole place was a giant nursery, an artificial town created explicitly for the purpose of breeding children.
Idea: Adversarial rendering. Builders proposing a new project should have to release enough of their design files for third parties to create renderings of what the project will actually look like.
Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. It lets you accrete programs as a series of patches.
