Prompts for “Beating the Averages”
Due on Wednesday, March 11 by 11:59pm
Read “Beating the Averages” by Paul Graham.
Commit your response as a PDF to your short responses repository. You are encouraged (but not required) to use LaTeX to typeset your response.
- Graham is a big proponent of Lisp. He even has his own dialect of Lisp, on which runs Hacker News. Do you think that his advice is biased by or informed by his experiences with Lisp? Do you think that his advice is good?
- Have you ever had a programming experience that “felt good”? If so, tell me about it. If not, what do you think stops you from feeling this way?