Like how teenagers are drawn to news about Taylor Swift or Justin Bieber (good news or bad), programmers are drawn to rare successes that are outside the norm.

Like how teenagers are drawn to news about Taylor Swift or Justin Bieber (good news or bad), programmers are drawn to rare successes that are outside the norm. It's fun to look at celebrity tech culture (just like it is to read the covers of the trashy mags at the checkout counters at your grocery store). Just because we see news like this doesn't mean that important, interesting, valuable work that helps people isn't being done somewhere else.