Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?

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Post by ritchiea » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 4:03 PM UTC

CiPHPerCoder wrote: post #84

LukeB_UK wrote: post #8

Beware of putting people on pedestals. Far better is to just follow people who do cool stuff. They don't have to be a "master" to do something cool that will inspire you.

Also: If you don't find your name on this thread, that doesn't mean that you're a nobody and that your work is unappreciated. It only means that the sort of folks who'd respond to a thread like this in earnest haven't noticed you, which probably isn't a reflection on your value to the {community, industry, world} (select appropriate).

Hopefully all of our work is appreciated by the people near us but it's really ok to be a "nobody" as in you aren't famous or even regarded as a "dev to be followed." There shouldn't be the expectation that to be a professional who's good at your job and solves problems you should also be on the list of popular devs people follow.

Re: Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?

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Post by reitanqild » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 4:03 PM UTC

CiPHPerCoder wrote: post #115

contravariant wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>The most gifted (which I define as the cross-section between talented and practiced) people I know tend to care more about the content of your character than your technical prowess. Odd choice of words, wouldn't it make more sense to switch the meaning of 'talented' and 'gifted'? A 'gift' is something you receive without sacrifice, while a 'talent' needs to be honed.

Talent is innate. Skill is practiced. If you're passionate enough about something that you happen to have a natural affinity for in order to hone your skills, I call that a gift.

Not a native speaker but I also find that odd: I always thought talented referred to the parable about the servants who were given talents, and as such I would expect that talented and gifted would be almost the same.

Re: Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?

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Post by ploggingdev » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 4:06 PM UTC

koolba wrote: post #108

ploggingdev wrote: post #39

Julia Evans : https://jvns.ca Rachel : https://rachelbythebay.com/w/ Jeff Atwood : https://blog.codinghorror.com/ Joel Spolsky : https://www.joelonsoftware.com/ Dan Luu : https://danluu.com/ patio11 : http://www.kalzumeus.com/

While he has many an interesting read on SEO and business related topics in the field of software, what programming related content from patio11 are you referring to?

He does not write programming related blogs often, but there are some if you go to the archive (most are published before 2012) http://www.kalzumeus.com/archive/

Recently he talked about building Stockfighter :

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2015/10/30/developing-in-stockfight...

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2015/08/20/designing-and-building-s...

Re: Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?

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Post by CiPHPerCoder » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 4:07 PM UTC

reitanqild wrote: post #122

CiPHPerCoder wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Talent is innate. Skill is practiced. If you're passionate enough about something that you happen to have a natural affinity for in order to hone your skills, I call that a gift.

Not a native speaker but I also find that odd: I always thought talented referred to the parable about the servants who were given talents, and as such I would expect that talented and gifted would be almost the same.

Disclaimer: I shouldn't be regarded as any sort of authority on the English language.

I sort of decide what words mean to me, publish them, and then stick to those definitions (while pointing anyone confused towards the published definitions).

There's probably a better way to classify these ideas without tripping over other peoples' lexicographic pedantry, but this is the Internet and you're always going to find a contrary opinion no matter what you do. The winning move is to not play.

Thus:

  talent: natural affinity
  skill:  aptitude gained through effort
  gifted: a person who is both talented and skilled in an area

Re: Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?

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Post by IgorPartola » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 4:08 PM UTC

None of them. There are lots that I respect and admire, and there are lots that I think provide a great value to our community. But I don't "follow" them for a few reasons: (1) it takes time, which I don't have, (2) I don't like buying into a cult of personality, no matter how benevolent and (3) I don't derive much value from that and would rather spend that time/energy on creating my own thing.

For example when I see a new thing by antirez on HN, I am likely to click it because it's usually good stuff, but I am not going to be following his blog, etc.

Re: Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?

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Post by sakura-rb » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 4:10 PM UTC

I'm a Ruby user, these are my inspiration

* Yehuda Katz - https://twitter.com/wycats

* Steve Klabnik - https://twitter.com/steveklabnik

* Aaron Patterson - https://twitter.com/tenderlove

* Charles Nutter - https://twitter.com/headius

Re: Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?

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Post by mrsmn » Mon, Jan 30, 2017, 4:10 PM UTC

santiagobasulto wrote: post #58

mrsmn wrote: post #49

David Beazley : http://www.dabeaz.com/ Kenneth Reitz : https://www.kennethreitz.org/ Armin Ronacher : http://lucumr.pocoo.org/ Julien Danjou : https://julien.danjou.info/ Hynek Schlawack : https://hynek.me/ Donald Stufft : https://caremad.io/

found the Python guy