{"id":525,"date":"2012-10-24T16:09:57","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T20:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.payne.org\/?p=525"},"modified":"2012-10-24T16:09:57","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T20:09:57","slug":"paul-graham-on-hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/paul-graham-on-hardware\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Graham on Hardware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think Paul Graham&#8217;s recent essay on <a href=\"http:\/\/paulgraham.com\/hw.html\">The Hardware Renaissance<\/a>\u00a0was very interesting:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0&#8230;one of the most conspicuous trends in the last batch was the large number of hardware startups. Out of 84 companies, 7 were making hardware. On the whole they&#8217;ve done better than the companies that weren&#8217;t.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After doing software for nearly 20 years, I&#8217;ve now been spending most of my time on hardware, and especially, hardware projects that have a large software component. \u00a0(See my post last year on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.payne.org\/2011\/09\/21\/408\/\">Coming Bits and Atoms Disruption<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>As the essay points out: \u00a0it&#8217;s getting cheaper &amp; easier to design and build hardware projects. \u00a0I think we&#8217;re going to see a lot of interesting products over the next few years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think Paul Graham&#8217;s recent essay on The Hardware Renaissance\u00a0was very interesting: \u00a0&#8230;one of the most conspicuous trends in the last batch was the large number of hardware startups. Out of 84 companies, 7 were making hardware. On the whole &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/paul-graham-on-hardware\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}