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> There are a lot of those kind of people, from all walks of life. They're just not on HN. I am sure there are more such people. Can you please point to some t
by rdudekul 14y ago
> There are a lot of those kind of people, from all walks of life. They're just not on HN.
I am sure there are more such people. Can you please point to some that you know of?. It is inspiring to read bios/accomplishments of such super productive programmers.
- S4M 14y agoI'd recommend you to read _coders at work_ from Peter Seibel. It's some interviews with top programmers such as jwz, Peter Norvig, etc.
- wslh 14y agoDan Bernstein, developing software without bugs and hardcore cryptographer: http://cr.yp.to/ http://cr.yp.to/ Ricardo Quesada: https://github.com/ricardoquesada https://github.com/ricardoquesada - Cocos2D for iPhone (more used 2D game engine) - Cocos2D Javascript Bindings - Cocos2D for Python - SqueakNOS: http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5727 http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5727 - Driver for an obscure wireless Lucene device (new protocol reverse engineering) - TEG (Tenes Empanadas Graciela) - Batalla Naval
- danso 14y agoSteve Wozniak. I feel like a dork saying this, but sometimes I'll randomly page through his autobiography because I know I'll be inspired/amused from reading it: http://www.amazon.com/iWoz-Computer-Invented-Personal-Co-Founded/dp/0393330435 http://www.amazon.com/iWoz-Computer-Invented-Personal-Co-Fou... It's hard to think of many others who are as unequivocally good-natured as Woz...accomplished or not.
- mbrubeck 14y agoI'll nominate Julian Seward, who among other things created both bzip2 and Valgrind, wrote parts of GHC (the Glasgow Haskell Compiler), and now works at Mozilla building and applying various analysis tools to Firefox/Gecko code.
- zem 14y agoandrew tridgell (rsync, rzip, samba)