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A hacker's journey: from cook to chef (0)
1 point by dclara on Nov 4, 2013 | hide | past | favorite
From Iron Chef, we can see a top notch chef is really somebody who can build a project to prepare a feast from start to finish without personal assistance, while cooks usually prepare food according to the recipe. Is that true? A chef not only cook, they can make up a show like an art and inspire other people.

Usually a startup hacker wears many hats. No matter what his professional advantage is, he might be weak in some other areas. For example, he could be a coding king or IT queen, but he is a cook for database administration. He could be a chef database administrator while he is a cook for Linux administration. Do not laugh at cooks, alright? We can always grow to be a chef if we want.

Code is poetry. Who said that? I believe the fundamental difference between a cook and a chef is the not the skills, it is the art of his thinking. No matter if you are an amateur, a hobbyist, a skilled worker, a professional or a chef hacker of coding, you can think of coding as art. Then it wouldn't be to hard to become a chef hacker in every area, even though it does not happen over night.

What is your journey from cook to chef? Your response will help me to share more about the roller coaster kind of experience with the pieces of the details on how to hammer down the nails.

The contents you can expect are:

- How to set up a vanilla WordPress environment - Are you ready for the distributed computing? etc.



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