{"id":17,"date":"2007-05-14T00:01:47","date_gmt":"2007-05-14T04:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/14\/spot-lighted-site-05132007\/"},"modified":"2014-01-25T18:11:26","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T22:11:26","slug":"spot-lighted-site-05132007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/14\/spot-lighted-site-05132007\/","title":{"rendered":"Spot Lighted Site 05\/13\/2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers and Painters<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulgraham.com\/hp.html\">http:\/\/www.paulgraham.com\/hp.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One day while I was sitting in my graduate level Operating System class, bored out of my mind, the professor went on a tangent and started talking about coding styles. He mentioned a man by the name of Paul Graham and how Paul thought coding \/ hacking was similar to painting. This immediately caught my ear and I made note of a famous essay, entitled &#8220;Hackers and Painters&#8221;, that Paul had apparently written.<\/p>\n<p>Reading Graham&#8217;s essay was like a shot in the arm. It reminded me why I was a programmer and why I went to school as a computer scientist. So many people go into computer science for the money, and so many of the people who teach it are &#8220;researchers&#8221; or theorists, I think it makes someone like me forget why\u00a0they liked it in the first place. I related to that essay very well, and I highly recommend it to anyone who programs as a hobby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers and Painters http:\/\/www.paulgraham.com\/hp.html One day while I was sitting in my graduate level Operating System class, bored out of my mind, the professor went on a tangent and started talking about coding styles. He mentioned a man by the name of Paul Graham and how Paul thought coding \/ hacking was similar to painting. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/14\/spot-lighted-site-05132007\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spot Lighted Site 05\/13\/2007<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2815,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/2815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}