{"id":540,"date":"2005-04-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-03T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2005\/04\/04\/475\/"},"modified":"2005-04-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-03T22:00:00","slug":"475","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2005\/04\/04\/475\/","title":{"rendered":"Copper and Tin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Graham &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulgraham.com\/bronze.html\">Copper and Tin<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;The hard part about figuring out what customers want is figuring out that you need to figure it out. But that&#8217;s something you can learn quickly. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>And compared to the sort of problems hackers are used to solving, giving customers what they want is easy. Anyone who can write an optimizing compiler can design a UI that doesn&#8217;t confuse users, once they choose to focus on that problem. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>A hacker who has learned what to make, and not just how to make, is extraordinarily powerful. And not just at making money: look what a small group of volunteers has achieved with Firefox.&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Graham &#8211; Copper and Tin: &#8222;The hard part about figuring out what customers want is figuring out that you need to figure it out. But that&#8217;s something you can learn quickly. [&#8230;] And compared to the sort of problems hackers are used to solving, giving customers what they want is easy. Anyone who can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}