alwaysright

No it's not.

There is a great udacity course with all the background to the P/NP problem: http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs313/ I found it very informative. It also has a section on "should you try solving the P vs. NP problem" and the answer is "not unless you have a lot of time, money, and though of something no one tried before, or is a math / CS professor"

I respect your honesty sharing what you really think, but I didn't read it this way, I read it as: "We spent so much time in it, and what I learned from it is how great it is to have friends do cool things together, and this is what keeps us going more than learning more CSS or JavaScript"

I think that's not cocky, and quite true. e.g. the reason they still do it, is because they enjoy the teamwork and community support, and that's the "lesson he learned" which is answering the question in the title of the post.

And besides, being the #1 project on GH and being used by any other startup out there gives him all the rights to be cocky if he wants to.

They are both deserving a BDFL title which gives you automatic immunity from being called cocky. Even if they are.

I think we all should just say thanks for building this, and nothing more, well, perhaps thanks to Twitter for not claiming the code. We all should aspire to do what fat and mdo did, build something out of passion, in our spare time, that will be freely available for everyone. There is nothing that anyone can say, (including them) that will take it away from them. They belong in the hall of fame of FOSS and hacker spirit. This is true whether you like or don't like what they write in a blog post.

Same question I have, but on your comment, not on the topic.