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What is the classic design of automotive? That’s the question to ask IMO. Paul Graham wrote about automobile design in an essay.
by frozencell 6y ago
What is the classic design of automotive? That’s the question to ask IMO.
Paul Graham wrote about automobile design in an essay.
- trizoza 6y agoDo you think you could find the essay? I'd love to read it
- mod 6y agoMaybe this: http://www.paulgraham.com/usa.html http://www.paulgraham.com/usa.html Or this: http://www.paulgraham.com/design.html http://www.paulgraham.com/design.html
- elihu 6y agoHe made a remark about SUVs when talking about programming languages; was that what you're referring to or was there something else? http://www.paulgraham.com/hundred.html http://www.paulgraham.com/hundred.html > Some kinds of waste really are disgusting. SUVs, for example, would arguably be gross even if they ran on a fuel which would never run out and generated no pollution. SUVs are gross because they're the solution to a gross problem. (How to make minivans look more masculine.) But not all waste is bad. Now that we have the infrastructure to support it, counting the minutes of your long-distance calls starts to seem niggling. If you have the resources, it's more elegant to think of all phone calls as one kind of thing, no matter where the other person is. > > There's good waste, and bad waste. I'm interested in good waste-- the kind where, by spending more, we can get simpler designs. How will we take advantage of the opportunities to waste cycles that we'll get from new, faster hardware?