Plus the hobbyist in question, was a rather brilliant[1] programmer at a young age. According to ESR: "You are a brilliant implementor, more able than me and p

Plus the hobbyist in question, was a rather brilliant[1] programmer at a young age. According to ESR: "You are a brilliant implementor, more able than me and possibly (I say this after consideration, and in all seriousness) the best one in the Unix tradition since Ken Thompson himself. As a consequence, you suffer the curse of the gifted programmer -- you lean on your ability so much that you've never learned to value certain kinds of coding self-discipline and design craftsmanship that lesser mortals must develop in order to handle the kind of problem complexity you eat for breakfast." [1] http://lwn.net/2000/0824/a/esr-sharing.php3 http://lwn.net/2000/0824/a/esr-sharing.php3