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I can't think of a single famous software engineer that continuously redefined the entire industry, every single year. Like, some language designers and tooling
by jackcviers3 4y ago
I can't think of a single famous software engineer that continuously redefined the entire industry, every single year. Like, some language designers and tooling creators have redefined the industry once a decade. But every year? For what definition of redefine does that apply?
- fragmede 4y agoLinus Torvalds took 14 years between releasing Linux and git, so he's out.
- fragmede 4y agoOr that loser Steve Jobs. Look at him. I mean he had a good few years in the beginning - Apple I (1976), the Apple II (1977), the Apple Lisa (1978), but then fails to do anything redefining until the Macintosh (1984), takes another break for 4 years until the NeXT Computer (1988), 10 years! until the iMac (1998). 2001 was a good year for him with iTunes (2001), iPod (2001) but again takes a 2 year break before iPhone(2007) and then skips out again for 2 years until the iPad in 2010. Or just look at all the gaps in the honors and awards section in wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs#Honors_and_awards https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs#Honors_and_awards Is there anybody that's "redefined an industry" every year running for more than 3 years straight?
- menaerus 4y agoNone. It's all plain BS that capitalistic companies are using as a leverage to gamify the market. Engineers are particularly bad in playing this game and are easy to deceive so that they start to believe it is a real thing (as seen in some comments above). When a football team does not meet the expectations, it is the manager who gets blamed for the failure and who gets the sack and rarely the players. We, sadly, live in a different world.