I highly doubt that for Dean and Torvalds. They are not programmers, they are software engineers. Both guide others to make 10x or 100x impacts to the world. 10

I highly doubt that for Dean and Torvalds. They are not programmers, they are software engineers. Both guide others to make 10x or 100x impacts to the world. 10 new grads, in most cases, cannot do that. Let alone this takes for granted both of their algorithms and data structures knowladge.