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> The only supporting evidence for the “uberhacker” was a study on batch processing vs interactive programming, in 1960. On a handful of people, in a half hour
by unimpressive 14y ago
> The only supporting evidence for the “uberhacker” was a study on batch processing vs interactive programming, in 1960. On a handful of people, in a half hour session. The rest of the noise is untamed adolescent egotism.
I present exhibit A: Richard Mathew Stallman before he got RSI.[0] The stories of those early computer pioneers should make computer users everywhere take pause and seriously think about the damage they're doing to their tendons.
[0]: In fact, if you type "uberhacker" into wiki it redirects to him.
- Sodel 14y agoAgreed. Whatever you think of RMS, some respect is due anyone who can honestly say "I implemented Common Lisp once".
- jdale27 14y agoRMS implemented Common Lisp?
- Sodel 14y agoYeah. He mentions implementing Common Lisp for Lisp machines in [1], but unfortunately doesn't go into any real detail. My guess is that it was part of the work he did to help LMI during the Lisp Machine wars. [1] http://www.gnu.org/gnu/rms-lisp.html http://www.gnu.org/gnu/rms-lisp.html
- Intermernet 14y agoMust be a random selection from a list. When I tried it I got Linus Torvalds :-) That, Wikipedia, is very cool!
- TeMPOraL 14y agoNot really; someone changed the redirect moments ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Uberhacker&action=history http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Uberhacker&act...
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- TeMPOraL 14y ago> [0]: In fact, if you type "uberhacker" into wiki it redirects to him. It redirects to Torvalds now. EDIT someone must have changed it moments ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Uberhacker&action=history http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Uberhacker&act...
- bornhuetter 14y agoThey should redirect uberhacker to Torvalds, and GNU/uberhacker to Stallman.