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I always die a little inside reading this guy's stuff because it's so easy to see how brilliant he is, and how much schizophrenia is affecting his talent. The w
by morbius 12y ago
I always die a little inside reading this guy's stuff because it's so easy to see how brilliant he is, and how much schizophrenia is affecting his talent. The worst part is that even he wants to "break out of [his] prison," and it's heartbreaking to see when somebody can't.
I've been following Davis' work for around 5 years now. What he has been able to write, and the proficiency with which he writes it, has in my opinion surpassed all the programmers whose Ruby/Haskell/Clojure dreck always appears on the HN frontpage.
- toyg 12y agoDo you know what he does for a living? Ticketmaster is mentioned here and there but always in the past, it seems. He'd be an incredible system hacker, if managed appropriately... but it's the sort of bet only great souls could make.
- morbius 12y agoWell, no. I'm not that close. I'm pretty sure he doesn't have a job; one of his pages mentioned he only lives on disability.
- howdoipython 12y agoHe does nothing for a living, and it has been that way for a while.