4 ms·

Not knocking his efforts, but I guess its on a par to writing some code or making something which is used by many people.

zeagle 3y ago
Probably underestimates it. Not my field, I don't know of this guy but a few hundred citations is you write a library that everyone uses and similar academic recognition and academic platinum for tenure on the background of other publications. 300 000 is the equivalent of writing the Linux kernel or sqlite. https://www.nature.com/news/the-top-100-papers-1.16224 https://www.nature.com/news/the-top-100-papers-1.16224
etrautmann 3y ago
Right - that’s impressive
gaze 3y ago
It really isn't -- unless you're talking something like bzip2 or some extremely nontrivial thing.
barelyauser 3y ago
I once went through quite an experience. Used to work with a guy that was awarded a big prize in his field. I think one day he got tired of being treated as "some kind of genius", as he said. He started to discuss a topic one day, listening to my answers and questions back and forth. At the end the discussion hit a point where we could not go further. He then told me: "if you then submitted this as a proposal, were lucky enough to have it granted and just answered the last question you asked me with a simple experiment, you would receive the same prize as I did". That guy was great.
- heyoni 3y ago
  And a genius lol. Don’t tell him I said that
- jrussino 3y ago
  You're probably being intentionally vague here to avoid "naming names", but I'd love to hear the actual details of this story: the topic under discussion, the interrogation that lead up to the "point where [you] could go no further", what the last question was, and what a simple experiment to answer it would look like.
Thrymr 3y ago
That really is knocking his efforts. How is that constructive?
ruined 3y ago
i've written code used by at least a billion people over fifteen years. i'm nobody and it was nothing. so definitely not on par

zeagle 3y ago

Probably underestimates it. Not my field, I don't know of this guy but a few hundred citations is you write a library that everyone uses and similar academic recognition and academic platinum for tenure on the background of other publications. 300 000 is the equivalent of writing the Linux kernel or sqlite. https://www.nature.com/news/the-top-100-papers-1.16224 https://www.nature.com/news/the-top-100-papers-1.16224

etrautmann 3y ago

Right - that’s impressive

gaze 3y ago

It really isn't -- unless you're talking something like bzip2 or some extremely nontrivial thing.

barelyauser 3y ago

I once went through quite an experience. Used to work with a guy that was awarded a big prize in his field. I think one day he got tired of being treated as "some kind of genius", as he said. He started to discuss a topic one day, listening to my answers and questions back and forth. At the end the discussion hit a point where we could not go further. He then told me: "if you then submitted this as a proposal, were lucky enough to have it granted and just answered the last question you asked me with a simple experiment, you would receive the same prize as I did". That guy was great.

heyoni 3y ago
And a genius lol. Don’t tell him I said that
jrussino 3y ago
You're probably being intentionally vague here to avoid "naming names", but I'd love to hear the actual details of this story: the topic under discussion, the interrogation that lead up to the "point where [you] could go no further", what the last question was, and what a simple experiment to answer it would look like.

Thrymr 3y ago

That really is knocking his efforts. How is that constructive?

ruined 3y ago

i've written code used by at least a billion people over fifteen years. i'm nobody and it was nothing. so definitely not on par