{"id":289,"date":"2004-08-14T12:55:21","date_gmt":"2004-08-14T04:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/?p=289"},"modified":"2007-11-02T13:40:34","modified_gmt":"2007-11-02T05:40:34","slug":"greathacker-and-greathire-python-and-isvs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/archives\/289","title":{"rendered":"GreatHacker and !GreatHire, Python and ISVs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll presume you have already read Paul Graham&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulgraham.com\/gh.html\" target=\"_blank\">Great Hackers<\/a>. I posted a link to that essay days ago.  <\/p>\n<p>And <font face=\"Tahoma, Verdana\">1,618,009<\/font> websites linked too that article as well.<\/p>\n<p>Now hear Eric Sink&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/software.ericsink.com\/entries\/No_Great_Hackers.html\" target=\"_blank\">Great Hacker != Great Hire<\/a>. It&#8217;s always good to listen to two (or more) opposing sides on certain things. It helps balance the chi.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of <a href=\"http:\/\/software.ericsink.com\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Sink<\/a>, there are more <a href=\"http:\/\/software.ericsink.com\/bos\/Business_of_Software.html\" target=\"_blank\">SoftwareDevelopment\/ISV-related articles<\/a> on his site. Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/software.ericsink.com\/rss.xml\" target=\"_blank\">direct link to his feed<\/a> in case you want to subscribe.<\/p>\n<p>Going back to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulgraham.com\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Graham<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulgraham.com\/gh.html\" target=\"_blank\">Great Hackers<\/a> article has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itconversations.com\/shows\/detail188.html\" target=\"_blank\">audio version<\/a> already which you can stream or download. He posted a recent article,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulgraham.com\/pypar.html\" target=\"_blank\"> Python Paradox<\/a>, which again stirs up my interest to delve into that language. <\/p>\n<p>I have already &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.httrack.com\" target=\"_blank\">httrack<\/a>&#8216;-ed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.python.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Phyton.org<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll presume you have already read Paul Graham&#8217;s Great Hackers. I posted a link to that essay days ago. And 1,618,009 websites linked too that article as well. Now hear Eric Sink&#8217;s Great Hacker != Great Hire. It&#8217;s always good to listen to two (or more) opposing sides on certain things. It helps balance the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-randomlinks","category-softdev-non-vfp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}