Paul Graham on great hackers - Microsoft
Paul Graham on great hackers - Microsoft
Posted Jul 29, 2004 20:36 UTC (Thu) by mbp (subscriber, #2737)In reply to: Paul Graham on great hackers - Microsoft by tjc
Parent article: Paul Graham on great hackers
I like the essay, but that particular sentence smells a bit like "consider the real world as a special case".
To some extent, in the old days, Microsoft probably did have a strong culture of good hackers, though with a different emphasis. Now they've just got big and clumsy, as most institutions do eventually.
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