Edit in Place with JavaScript and CSS – this is cool. So is his Drag & Drop Sortable Lists.
Here’s a parody of Paul Graham that’s sort-of related to Javascript (few people have looked beneath their natural revulsion to find Javascript’s deeper flaw: curly braces
). He’s also written a more serious rant about Paul Graham’s Hackers and Painters essays, which contains some gems of snark:
The fatuousness of the parallel becomes obvious if you think for five seconds about what computer programmers and painters actually do.
- Computer programmers cause a machine to perform a sequence of transformations on electronically stored data.
- Painters apply colored goo to cloth using animal hairs tied to a stick.
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Great paintings, for example, get you laid in a way that great computer programs never do. Even not-so-great paintings – in fact, any slapdash attempt at slapping paint onto a surface – will get you laid more than writing software, especially if you have the slightest hint of being a tortured, brooding soul about you. For evidence of this I would point to my college classmate Henning, who was a Swedish double art/theatre major and on most days could barely walk.Also remark that in painting, many of the women whose pants you are trying to get into aren’t even wearing pants to begin with. Your job as a painter consists of staring at naked women, for as long as you wish, and this day in and day out through the course of a many-decades-long career. Not even rock musicians have been as successful in reducing the process to its fundamental, exhilirating essence.