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The creator of ffmpeg, Fabrice Bellard, has an impressively long list of projects. Very talented developer! https://bellard.org/ https://bellard.org/
by brian-armstrong 5y ago
The creator of ffmpeg, Fabrice Bellard, has an impressively long list of projects. Very talented developer!
https://bellard.org/ https://bellard.org/
- stavros 5y agoSome speculate that Fabrice Bellard is actually as many as ten different people.
- brian-armstrong 5y agoThat would still be ten very prolific people.
- sidpatil 5y agoSo you're saying he's the Nicolas Bourbaki of the software world.
- stavros 5y agoPretty much.
- onionisafruit 5y agoI was thinking.Erin Hunter but tomato tomato.
- TacticalCoder 5y agoNot many do for Linus Torvalds though!
- Zababa 5y agoThere's maybe some insight to be gained by analyzing the commits to see if the code seems to be made by different people. I remember that there was the same theory about a very prolific person on the npm/js ecosystem.
- frutiger 5y agoOr that he is a time traveller from an advanced (human or not) species sowing the seeds for humanity’s leap forward into into extra-terrestrial society.
- bigiain 5y agoOr, perhaps more likely, sowing the seeds for humanities demise by enabling the existence of YouTube/TikTok et al.
- egman_ekki 5y agoDemise? Maybe that's how you neutralize the next Hitlers. You let them watch TikTok and become obsessed with dancing.
- wongarsu 5y agoWhen you get rejected from art Academy today you can just start a YouTube or TikTok with drawing tutorials, or timelapses of yourself painting. So many possibilities, when in the last century you might have just given up on your passion and gone into politics
- sounds 5y agoThis comment brings me a lot of sadness and pain. I know and respect Fabrice from in person interactions. He is exactly who he claims to be. Maybe an interesting question, instead of this current line of discussion, is to find out what led to his successes? Could it be replicated?
- sekao 5y agoCálmate, my friend...pretty sure the comment was a light hearted joke.
- throwaway81523 5y agoI'm reminded of the joke that Nicolas Bourbaki quit writing math books when they found out that Serge Lang was one person.
- ncmncm 5y agoAnyway we know Elena Ferrante is two people.
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- tomrod 5y agoHow can it be funded? I would love to work more on open source.
- TuringTest 5y agoIf it solves a specific need of a large company, they may decide to fund the developer to maintain it and tweak it for their purposes. If it only works for small companies or end users, maybe it can be dual-licensed or mixed-licensed, offering the basic software for free but selling closed-source add-ons for expanded functionalities.
- colinmhayes 5y agoI saw Fabrice comment here during the log4j debacle complaining about how hard it is to get funding. I'd say the answer is that it mostly doesn't, and that there is a very small paid team working on it.
- psyc 5y agoI hope this is wry humor and not more 10x denialism.
- jpetso 5y agoIs there any particular reason that any mention of Fabrice Bellard turns into a praise-fest? I mean, I get it, the guy makes neat stuff and lots of it. But the level of hype is unusual, and I wonder whether there's an origin for this meme that isn't rooted in reading his actual source code.
- kragen 5y agoIt's based on using it, not reading it. It's not hype. There just isn't anyone comparable out there.
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- hericium 5y agoReminds me of how Philip K. Dick has sent letter(s) to the FBI informing them them that Stanislaw Lem was a group of communist writers working on mind-controlling sci-fi[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Lem#Philip_K._Dick https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Lem#Philip_K._D...
- rvense 5y agoTen geniuses in a long coat!
- aaaaaaaaaaab 5y agoThe French seem to have a history of this :^) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki
- JJMcJ 5y agoBellard spelled backwards is Bourbaki.
- dredmorbius 5y agoAnd those ten people are actually a pseudonym collective of Fabrice Bellard!
- rasz 5y agoIts Time Travel.
- thepasswordis 5y agoI love the nonchalance with which this is presented. "Oh here's a list of my projects."
- bitwize 5y agoFabrice Bellard, one of a short list of programmers that could make John Carmack go "whoa".
- comeonseriously 5y agoYeah, you have the average programmer who spends so much time worrying about what FE framework to use, then you have the programmers at the level of the two you mention who just put out so many working projects. All the cargo culting most devs do is just waste.
- meitham 5y agoI didn’t realise he created QEMU too! Amazing talent!
- xxs 5y agoTalented is a massive understatement. Fabrice Bellard and John Carmack are folks that get 9.5/10 as developers (10 being reserved for God).
- ChrisMarshallNY 5y agoHe's kind of a "Buckaroo Banzai" type of guy...
- LtdJorge 5y agoMaybe a 10 for Terry A. Davis, then.
- strikelaserclaw 5y agothat guy is a genius