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If I had a dozen votes I'd probably use them all on Jamie Zawinski. His wicked blend of humor, cynicism, realism and practicality make for some fascinating sto
by abstractbill 19y ago
If I had a dozen votes I'd probably use them all on Jamie Zawinski.
His wicked blend of humor, cynicism, realism and practicality make for some fascinating stories and actually useful advice.
He's worked with tons of interesting stuff - obviously XEmacs, Netscape and Mozilla, but he also wrote a bunch of code for the legendary Lisp Machines early in his career.
Peter Norvig called him "One of the best programmers I ever hired" - http://norvig.com/21-days.html http://norvig.com/21-days.html
You might have to be very persuasive to get an interview though. I think he pretty much hates (1) being famous and (2) the software industry these days!