{"id":403,"date":"2004-07-28T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-29T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2004\/07\/28\/toluca-lake-california-21\/"},"modified":"2004-07-28T21:50:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-29T04:50:00","slug":"toluca-lake-california-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2004\/07\/28\/toluca-lake-california-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Toluca Lake, California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From an essay by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulgraham.com\/gh.html\">Paul Graham<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The distinguishing feature of nasty little problems is that you don&#8217;t learn anything from them. Writing a compiler is interesting because it teaches you what a compiler is. But writing an interface to a buggy piece of software doesn&#8217;t teach you anything, because the bugs are random. So it&#8217;s not just fastidiousness that makes good hackers avoid nasty little problems. It&#8217;s more a question of self-preservation. Working on nasty little problems makes you stupid. Good hackers avoid it for the same reason models avoid cheeseburgers.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an essay by Paul Graham: &#8220;The distinguishing feature of nasty little problems is that you don&#8217;t learn anything from them. Writing a compiler is interesting because it teaches you what a compiler is. But writing an interface to a buggy piece of software doesn&#8217;t teach you anything, because the bugs are random. So it&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2004\/07\/28\/toluca-lake-california-21\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Toluca Lake, California&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}