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#All possible codebases by major programmers Linus Torvalds: you take a week-long swing at a problem you find annoying, fascinating, or both. The result enjoys
by riwsky 2y ago
#All possible codebases by major programmers
Linus Torvalds: you take a week-long swing at a problem you find annoying, fascinating, or both. The result enjoys staggering worldwide success in the ensuing decades, despite being clearly outclassed by some alternative from the GNU project that, pinky promise, is coming out any day now.
Grace Hopper: BEGIN a framework that powers critical government functions, AND has secretly saved America from mass destruction time and again, only to be dunked on by Reddit for trivial matters of syntax END.
John Carmack: Doom, but better-looking.
Brendan Eich: you take a week-long swing at a problem your employer finds commercially compelling. The result enjoys staggering worldwide success in the ensuing decades, despite being clearly outclassed by the prior art it was supposed to build on.
- mp05 2y ago> Brendan Eich: you take a week-long swing at a problem your employer finds commercially compelling. The result enjoys staggering worldwide success in the ensuing decades, despite being clearly outclassed by the prior art it was supposed to build on. Pretty brilliant, right? Right?
- riwsky 2y agoPlease forgive my JavaScript joke: it’s really just a poorly-written series of callbacks.
- minikomi 2y agoYou merely extended the prototype
- bigiain 2y agoIt wasn't that great, but some of the callbacks had promises...
- sdiupIGPWEfh 2y agoI'm still awaiting the punchline.
- LVB 2y agothis is the problem
- milani 2y agoNot fulfilled yet? Maybe in the next tick.
- sdiupIGPWEfh 2y agoYeah, I'd heard they were still iterating on their routine.
- grotorea 2y agoI would like to quote the creator of Dogecoin: > In reply to that, Mr Markus was asked whether he had considered energy usage when creating the cryptocurrency. > “i made doge in like 2 hours i didn’t consider anything,” he wrote.
- akoboldfrying 2y agoI love this so much. It's like "The Emperor's New Clothes", except it's the Emperor himself yelling "I'm naked you fucking idiots!"
- ashton314 2y agoFabrice Bellard: A problem with several competing solutions catches your fancy. Within a week you have a gleaming, state-of-the-art solution that is flexible, reliable, and extensible—all written in pure, efficient C. Everyone begins to build on your work. Donald Knuth: While writing your magnum opus, a minor irritation arises. You invent a new subfield of computing and spend two years developing a highly idiosyncratic language and tool system.\footnote{And several new typefaces!} Your irritation dissipates and you go back to work with your writing. Generations of academics curse your creation but have nothing better to work with. They wonder if they can get Fabrice Bellard to take a crack at it…
- scruple 2y ago> Fabrice Bellard Working on (a medium-sized team that is working on) an LTE base station in the late 2000s and then I'm introduced to his work. It was a very humbling experience. Over the decades I've met a handful of people who were, at times, within reach of Fabrice but he is truly in a league of his own.