The legacy of Pieter Hintjens

https://zombiecodekill.com/2016/10/06/the-legacy-of-pieter-hintjens/

by pavsaund • 10 years ago

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Insanity• 10 years ago

Thank you for this, it was an interesting read. I did not know of him until some days ago, close to his death but I am going to check out some of his presentations. May he RIP.

Scarblac• 10 years ago

I too never heard of him until his final tweet showed up on HN, but his Stallmanism religion ( http://stallmanism.wikidot.com/ ) religion page is great. I'm going to read much more of his stuff.

SEJeff• 10 years ago

Here is a pretty amazing post he did "A Protocol for Dying": http://hintjens.com/blog:115

currywurst• 10 years ago

"people before code" is something that my younger self could just not grok. Thankfully I'm growing out of it now, having followed the progress of several projects over time.

veli_joza• 10 years ago

Pieter Hintjens is a huge inspiration to me, even though I've never met him in person. I have yet to find a statement of his that I don't agree with. He writes technical documentation in a no-bullshit way that is very easy to read and understand. You really feel smarter after going through his writings.

His life-long accomplishments in building open source community and ZeroMQ legacy is impressive.

It was really painful to read his blogs for last few months, especially the Fighting Cancer piece (http://hintjens.com/blog:123). I'm sad to see him gone.

amirouche• 10 years ago

I used to not understand this tip from http://cultureandempire.com:

There is. «TIP: When there is something that people are asking for, and you don't know how to do it yourself, announce publicly that it is impossible." Or, propose a solution that is so awkward hopeless that it annoys real experts into stepping up.»

akeruu• 10 years ago

For those, like me, who also have trouble understanding this, I found Hintjens answered this very question [0] by mentioning a post on his blog [1].

[0] https://github.com/cultureandempire/cultureandempire.github....

[1] http://hintjens.com/blog:73#toc4

icebraining• 10 years ago

Sounds like Cunningham's Law: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law

xivusr• 10 years ago

I wish I could ignore death without having to ignore people I love who pass. I didn't know him, but when I heard about his story it moved me. His story and others like his make the worlds unbearable aspects worth it to me.

The legacy of Pieter Hintjens

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