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Is it too early to start a first print of paulgraham.com? I want mine signed.

I hope the cover is orange.


Actually you can download the whole thing by using https://github.com/ofou/graham-essays , and then I imagine you can pipe it into pandoc or something of the sort to create a PDF. And then you can send that over to https://www.blurb.com/pdf-to-book or similar providers to get it printed.

When I attempted this once, I couldn't get the pages to be formatted nicely like a book, and the number of pages I ended up with was close to 1500 or something along those lines, which ends up costing you $100+ to print out with one of these services.

However I suspect that if someone were to typeset the essays nicely, it'd be an amazing coffee table book.


Well boys, it’s not quite April 1st but the shitposts can’t wait and Christmas came early this year.


lol


Developers were more in tune with the entire tech stack down to silicone. Today you’d be “unreasonable” for asking such a thing.


The entire stack down to silicon exploded multiplied by 3 or 4 in that time.

Vectorization, more cache levels, branch prediction, multiple cores and processors, gpu, virtual machines, (operating systems, but they didn't change much, I only let the placeholder for the layer), containers, but all that in the cloud, distributed databases, frameworks written in a language that need to be compiled to a language that is actually implemented by a web browser in the client (we are far better on compatibility between browsers, but much libraries or practices keep stuck in the past).

I haven't touched shift in practices that make it far worse.

That make it more unreasonable.


I am not asking, it will be the only way from now on if companies don't want to waste more money and time.

Because the option to parse stack traces from the programming language itself, it will destroy what ever built on or for microservices


Yeah because back then the tech stack was:

php apache mysql linux

it was so small we could put it into an acronym.

Meanwhile in 2024 you could barely begin to even describe any individual layer of the stack with so few words. You'd be out of breath before even beginning to finish describing React.

(btw it's silicon, not silicone).


Good ole PAML stack :)


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