How great programmers learned their craft (interview)

http://usmanahmad.wordpress.com/2006/08/02/great-programmers-answersinterview-with-steve-yegge-linus-torvalds-dave-thomas-david-heinemeier-peter-norvig-james-gosling-guido-van-tim-bray/

by comatose_kid • 19 years ago

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altay2• 19 years ago

David Heinemeier Hansson listens to Jewel?!

tyler• 19 years ago

This might get a rise out of some people, but I believe that DHH is completely out of place in that list of hackers, and his response to the question about mathematics makes it painfully obvious.

So many things he says make me ashamed to admit I use Rails for most of my coding these days.

ntoshev2• 19 years ago

He is different, sure. But no "true hacker" made a better web framework. Perhaps there is something in his mentality we can all learn from.

ntoshev2• 19 years ago

http://www.stifflog.com/2006/10/16/stiff-asks-great-programm...

I think this is the original article, no broken text and Bjarne Stroustrup's answers as a bonus.

news.YC has editors, right?

henning• 19 years ago

Very odd, indeed. If you're going to engage in shameless wholesale scraping as appears to have occurred here (and the site does appear to be a scraper site), why not pick content on a topic that you can monetize (porn/gambling/pharmaceuticals/mortgages/etc) easily?

jrcapa• 19 years ago

That is very old, why are you posting it again?

comatose_kid2• 19 years ago

Simple. I didn't know it had been submitted. I did a search before I submitted, but the article didn't come up in the first page or two.

One solution would be for news.yc to improve its matching algorithm (perhaps looking at the body of html text, not just the title/url) - most people won't even search for previous articles before submitting.

g00dn3ss• 19 years ago

They actually have search? I was trying to find an article the other day and looked all over for a search box. I finally had to resort to a Google site search.

tx• 19 years ago

Guido is awesome. He clearly does not take himself too seriously. :) Linus'es answers were the ones I most agreed with.

How great programmers learned their craft (interview)

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