What hackers love to do?

Hacking is always an addictive subject for programmers. A million dollar question is how they actually work? Experienced hacker Paul Graham reveals that secret in his book "Hackers & Painters".

 

Think like an Architect and work like an Engineer

The basic difference between the architects & the engineers is an architect decides what to do and an engineer decides how to do it. If anyone wants to design software firstly they should think like an architect. At the end of the day they have to implement their ideas what engineers do. If the first one lags then they are actually only doing computer engineering.

 

Copy Codes Whenever! Wherever!

“Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find your self.”

—Yohji Yamamoto

Copying is a good way to look codes very closely at the way the program is made. It helps to get the insight of the code which assists to do experiments with the program. There are lots of good codes available from the books and internet. Hackers Collect and spew out their codes and beat it into a shape. This process has a beautiful name called "Debugging!!".

Hackers are Painters

Painting has been a much richer source of ideas than the theory of computation. Painter collects resources from everywhere. They get an idea and sketch that as the hackers are doing "Debugging". ...Read More>>