[2005]

It feels like a disservice both to this post and to Paul Graham to exclude the date for this article. I'd imagine the timing on a post like this is critical context for understanding it, and to both exclude it in the submission (and, frankly the fact that it's only at the bottom of the article, not the top) is less than optimal.

Given the author of the post and it’s target, indeed the date is very important (but I appreciate it’s an easy oversight to make)

The headline is pure click bait.

When he did that thing it made me feel pretty pretty strong about it.

And I see that thing you did there.

Essential Paul Graham context, from earlier in 2005.

https://idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm

> So let me say it simply - hackers are nothing like painters.

The only thing this tells me is that the author isn’t a hacker but a programmer. The difference is like that between a painter and house painter.

This article is very reasonable. I don't understand the jab from the other article

I assume this is satire… But I’m not actually sure.

I assume this comment is satire, but I am not actually sure. And by this comment, I meant this comment not the comment to which I am replying.

And sun is bright. And Microsoft is (not) dead.