Fabrice is awesome. I am also extremely impressed with the code written by a guy that goes by the name of Bisqwit. He has multiple videos speed coding here: http://www.youtube.com/user/Bisqwit
Fabrice Bellard: Portrait of a super-productive programmer (2011)
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#12Old article resurfacing again on HN, neverthless he is everyone's idol
Heh. Be jealous - I'll be working in the same team as Fab, starting next month :D
Re: Fabrice Bellard: Portrait of a super-productive programmer (2011)
#13Fabrice Bellard is the man!
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#14"If there’s a secret to this superhero-level productivity, it appears to have less to do with comic-book mutation and radioactivity, and far more with discipline, confidence, rigor, and many years of practice."
This is one line that you should take away from the article. Most of us think that highly productive programmers are magicians but we forget that they are just like us, just hard working and disciplined.
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#15"If there’s a secret to this superhero-level productivity, it appears to have less to do with comic-book mutation and radioactivity, and far more with discipline, confidence, rigor, and many years of practice."
This is one line that you should take away from the article. Most of us think that highly productive programmers are magicians but we forget that they are just like us, just hard working and disciplined.
Re: Fabrice Bellard: Portrait of a super-productive programmer (2011)
#16The question from previous discussion remains unanswered. How does he finance his production of top notch open source software? At least for me, the day to day churn of my day job leaves me too mentally exhausted to chase the crazy ideas I get from time to time, let alone finish them. Imagine a world where hackers, artists and artisans could follow their passions and could chase crazy ideas without a risk of losing t…
In France and many other places in Europe is common to work 36 hours per week, so you have a reasonable amount of time to do your own stuff.
Re: Fabrice Bellard: Portrait of a super-productive programmer (2011)
#17The question from previous discussion remains unanswered. How does he finance his production of top notch open source software? At least for me, the day to day churn of my day job leaves me too mentally exhausted to chase the crazy ideas I get from time to time, let alone finish them. Imagine a world where hackers, artists and artisans could follow their passions and could chase crazy ideas without a risk of losing t…
>How does he finance his production of top notch open source software?
Check his webpage notes regarding the 4G LTE implementation. Its commercialised to a company called Amarisoft and it appears Fabrice is involved in that.
Look at their client list...government and telcos. I'd speculate its quite a profitable enterprise.
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#19My theory is that Fabrice is not human and most likely a creature not of this world. Seriously, how the hell can someone be so talented and amazing and above all remain such a nice guy? Fabrice is a down to Earth and amazingly talented individual who will go down in history; text books will reference him, heck he'll have a movie one day (maybe not). I don't care if this is an old article, Bellard deserves to be on th…
there are these kinds of people for one ilya grigorik http://igvita.com
Re: Fabrice Bellard: Portrait of a super-productive programmer (2011)
#20Fabrice is awesome. I am also extremely impressed with the code written by a guy that goes by the name of Bisqwit. He has multiple videos speed coding here: http://www.youtube.com/user/Bisqwit
Do anyone know how these coding videos are created?