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I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer
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#192Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's the opposite, better-factored code makes me, a mediocre developer, capable of making progress instead of hitting a complexity wall. It's separate from striving for "beautiful" code, beauty within well-factored boundaries yields dimishing returns compared to just having the boundaries.
You’re ostensibly arguing the same thing I am though. Focusing on building the thing rather than designing the code to look pretty.
I don't think "ostensibly" means what you think it means.
But I can't guess what you meant.
Re: I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer
#193Fabrice Bellard is the actual greatest programmer that has ever lived. Carmack's "almost certainly" doesn't look good here.
The actual greatest programmer is the one who gets compensated according to their output.
What does it have to do with compensation? Creativity for creativity’s sake is also important. Not everyone spends their life chasing dollars.
Re: I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer
#194Bellard is a genius. Carmack's modesty about his own genius is impressive too.
I wouldn’t call comparing yourself to Fabrice Ballard and not just saying he’s a better programmer modest.
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#195Re: I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer
#196It's interesting to me that most of Bellard's work is basically turning specs into C. His most important projects are ffmpeg (codec specs), qEmu (ISA specs), QuickJS (the EcmaScript spec), tinyC (the C spec), and his telecom company (LTE specs). I guess the pi calculations and neural network stuff are exceptions. Just to be clear, this doesn't make his work any less impressive. Highly performant codec and emulator im…
There was a time when we would spend an enormous amount of time defining a spec, so that we can farm out the code. Now, we farm out the spec so that we can spend an enormous amount of time with the code.
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#197> Today FFmpeg is the invisible engine of the internet. I get what the author is saying but I really dislike this hyperbole. The Internet will be absolutely fine if FFmpeg suddenly disappears. Companies that rely on it in the core of their product may not, but the Internet absolutely will, and the vast majority of websites and other Internet services will keep working just fine.
It’s the invisible engine of what makes up the majority of today’s internet. I don’t think that’s hyperbole. Tomorrows internet might not be the same.
Ffmpeg has nothing to do with the internet other than being distributed on it
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#198> Today FFmpeg is the invisible engine of the internet. I get what the author is saying but I really dislike this hyperbole. The Internet will be absolutely fine if FFmpeg suddenly disappears. Companies that rely on it in the core of their product may not, but the Internet absolutely will, and the vast majority of websites and other Internet services will keep working just fine.
Without YouTube and porn, is there really an internet?
More like without video, is there still internet..... Absolutely yes. It's a tad hyperbolic I agree
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#199Can anybody point me at any interviews of Fabrice? I've looked several times (including just now) and I can't find /anything/ - am I missing something obvious?
He gives virtually no interviews and will not talk about himself, here's an example from 2014 where only replies to technical questions: https://www.macplus.net/depeche-82364-interview-le-createur-...
> He gives virtually no interviews and will not talk about himself
Case in point, from the linked interview:
> Could you say a couple of words about yourself?
> I would rather not talk about myself, except that I created other projects such as FFmpeg or QEMU.
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#200Little known Fabrice Bellard project. He worked with the ATSC to test the ATSC 3.0 PHY layer when he was consulting at DekTec.
Rather than potentially 1000 HN readers each spending 15 minutes on Google trying to work out what you are talking about, may I suggest that you expand that with a few plain English sentences that tell us what that means?
I have no idea what "ATSC" means, and I've been in tech for nearly 40 years now so I have a fairly good handle on this stuff.