cperciva. Originally "found" him when a user by the name of "sanj" responded to cperciva, pretty much flaming him and asking him if he won the Putnam, an annual

cperciva. Originally "found" him when a user by the name of "sanj" responded to cperciva, pretty much flaming him and asking him if he won the Putnam, an annual math competition held in the US and CA for undergrads. cperciva was making a few "bold" statements and sanj replied "Did you win the Putnam?" to which cperciva replies, "Yes, I did." and later goes on to gloat a little bit saying, he considered his earlier score of 53 his most impressive considering he was 14 at the time. A user called dbosson proceeds to calls him out on his gloating and talks about helping others. He replies with this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35120 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35120 The thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35015 It was one of the few times I've seen News.YC/HN delve into the usual internet forum banter and not being disappointed with it. You might know of cperciva also as the creator of Tarsnap. He's very open about not being money-driven and the service continues to keep to its roots as a product only made for technologists. He's not concerned with developing the product for Enterprise, nor marketing. He's also someone who hasn't bent to external pressure to further develop his product for anyone else. Everyone else is business-minded, the likes of patio11 included, who are practically screaming for him to take advantage of his brand and following to build up a company.. But he just doesn't want to. To me, he's someone who's truly gifted, not humble about it but doesn't gloat in such a way that you feel like he's going overboard. His claims are valid, he's matter-of-factly saying statements that are all true. Akin to McGregor, a UFC fighter who always seems to predict how he'll put the other fighter down in the interviews: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJeziuaShow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJeziuaShow Sure there are an insane amount of people here I can admire and I follow incessantly because they're such valuable sources of knowledge. But cperciva especially I can respect, because he just doesn't seem to worry about whatever anyone else thinks or expects from him.