still not cut out for software pundit-dom.
I've seen a lot of discussion about Paul Graham's Great Hackers essay, so I finally went and read it. It has some interesting points -- good programmers love programming, like good tools, want to do interesting work. Here's a good quote:
(That sounds a little too familiar. It burns.)
There are other enjoyable nuggets. But Paul keeps getting distracted by his religion. Good programmers like offices instead of cubes, and oh by the way smart people such as myself hate Java and Windows.
Whatever. I just like writing software that people need.
Mostly I'm tired of all these essays about "hackers". Great, you're designing a new language for brilliant people like yourself, or you wrote a command-line mail fetcher. We're impressed! Now stop speaking for the rest of us and go write code.