Question:
You're a library. You do things the way everyone else does them? What happens? Can you beat the averages?
Anwswer:
This happnes, and I quote Paul Graham again,
Beating the Averages: "The average big company grows at about ten percent a year. So if you're running a big company and you do everything the way the average big company does it, you can expect to do as well as the average big company-- that is, to grow about ten percent a year."
Question:
What is a good way to understand things?
Answer:
Question, write, question write, talk, question write and talk.
Quote:
The Roots of Lisp: "In 1960, John McCarthy published a remarkable paper in which he did for programming something like what Euclid did for geometry. He showed how, given a handful of simple operators and a notation for functions, you can build a whole programming language. He called this language Lisp, for 'List Processing,' because one of his key ideas was to use a simple data structure called a list for both code and data."
ACM Crossroads: "ACM Crossroads
The Student Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery"
Question:
What's a great interview meaning what are great questions to ask and great responses to get?
Answer:
Read the ACM Crossroads: Issue 12.3/ 2006. "The future of programming: An interview with Paul Graham."