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Bjarne Stroustrup says about this too. Also have a look at Larry Wall's web page: http://www.wall.org/~larry/
My favorite example is http://okmij.org/ftp/ Quite beautiful.
I always think how these hackers manage to do it. If you look at the projects in his homepage they vary across domains. How do they manage to stay motivated, how do they learn all the stuff they do. And if I'm not wrong they do this apart from their day jobs. Projects on his page are inspiring.
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It's more than that, I think: I've worked with people of his caliber in other fields, and I can appreciate that they need to work at their own pace. e.g., if he submitted QEMU as a patch for bochs, and it was rejected (for whatever reason), does anyone think his time was better spent fixing that patch? He produces ingenious, high quality code, and does so at an unbelievable rate (note, none of his open source project…
What does he do for a living? I can't find anything about it on the wikipedia page, his personal page and the blog page about his achievements - strange.
It's worthy of note that his free software makes him plenty of money.
It's also no surprise that he doesn't feel the need to write about himself.
The higher the genius, the simpler the webpage.
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What does he do for a living? I can't find anything about it on the wikipedia page, his personal page and the blog page about his achievements - strange.
I think he works for some big corporate. Which one I don't know. I remember reading about it in some HN thread.
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What does he do for a living? I can't find anything about it on the wikipedia page, his personal page and the blog page about his achievements - strange.
Although my information is somewhat dated, he lives and works in Paris for http://www.netgem.com - ffmpeg makes their boxes top-notch. It's worthy of note that his free software makes him plenty of money. It's also no surprise that he doesn't feel the need to write about himself.
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Unfortunately actual hacks are scanty too! How many people do you know can do all this. There are a few threads being posted these days about side projects/extra income projects/failed ideas. Nearly 99% of all ideas were designing HTML pages. Simple MVC apps. How many things related to hard core development do you see these days? Those people who do real hack work, pretty much keep silent and to themselves. Don't har…