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> Good chance it was John Carmack, probably one the top 10 programmers of all time. Where would you rank Linus Torvalds?

• Cthulhu_ 3y ago
  I honestly have no idea how good Linus is as a programmer; he's proven his worth as a project manager, he seems to know a thing or two (to make an understatement) about operating systems, but I don't know if he's a good programmer.
• otikik 3y ago
  Empathy is a trait that I value highly on a programmer.
  • account42 3y ago
    Empathy and faux politeness are different things.
    • otikik 3y ago
      I'm not disagreeing. In fact I would say that faux politeness is a strong sign of low empathy. On this particular case, Linus has publicly admitted that he struggles with empathy.
• fragmede 3y ago
  It's tough to decide if the Linux kernel or git is his bigger contribution to society.
  • yCombLinks 3y ago
    Git isn't even the best DVCS, it won on the back of github more than it's own strengths.
    • ChoHag 3y ago
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• Eisenstein 3y ago
  In the top 10 as well. In fact not too long ago I was asking someone to rate some piece of code and used 'from Linus / Carmack to (something shitty I don't remember)' as the metric.
  • TechBro8615 3y ago
    It would be fun to make a game that showed you random code snippets and asked you to identify the author.
• deleted 3y ago
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