One valuable point is that you always have holes in your education. I think Yegge's half right about not being able to interview for DGTS. There's no substitut

One valuable point is that you always have holes in your education. I think Yegge's half right about not being able to interview for DGTS. There's no substitute for on-the-job judgments. On the other hand, there's a profile. Douglas Crockford, for instance, wants hackers who are friends with SICP and TAoCP. Bill Gates said something similar back in the day. http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-TBPekxc1dLNy5DOloPfzVvFIVOWMB0li?p=860 http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-TBPekxc1dLNy5DOloPfzVvFIVOWMB... I've taken Eric Raymond's hacker HOWTO as a kind of program toward DGTS. http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html Yegge has emphasized a deep understanding of compilers and languages in the past. To me the benefits are still tantalizingly out of reach. http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/06/rich-programmer-food.html http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/06/rich-programmer-food...