GOOGLE I/O 2009 – THE MYTH OF THE GENIUS PROGRAMMER
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14 September 2009
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Google I/O 2009 – The Myth of a Genius Programmer
Brian Fitzpatrick, Ben Collins-Sussman
A pervasive elitism hovers in a credentials of collaborative program development: everybody personally w…
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//bodidarma505 -
video error on 28:00?great talk by the way, gotta love these guys
//dootzky -
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//howtogetsaved -
I think that the myth is not a falsehood. I think thatgenius code is possible. I know that in many late night sessions of writing code I entered a zone where it was like entering the Matrix and I was coding like Mozart composing music. The next day I had no idea what my code was doing – only that it worked. Also, genius exists. So I think that the true point of the lecture was try to play down the fact that a small minority of programmers can crush all other programmers. Talent and desire.
//tahoefireflies -
The first 20 minutes stood out for me a lotGreat lecture
//warty4ev3r -
Code is art and all programmers paint differently.
//tahoefireflies -
And as I near the end of a 25 year programming career I lament the fact that it is not an engineering discipline. Most folks that took computer science classes have forgotten that the word science was involved, and instead everybody runs with fad, and gut instinct.
//kurt6string -
Dude, 99% of people are by default selfish – meaning they have an ego. This guys are trying to balance programmers by showing them the other side (care for others). So essentially their case it good and is in the middle.
//KyleOfIsle -
The ego is needed. Without it we would have no individuality and only have a ’service to others’ Borg hive mind. In the video they present it as an either-or situation, which is not very intelligent. Actually it’s completely wrong.
//SingularityBot
wanna know why I’m not a myth??!?!?!Cuz ….. ok get your “i’m smart too” hat out and your “me too, me too” t-shirt to go with it…..I’m not a myth because 0 =/= 1For all you programmers out there…. that is zero is not equal to one.WOW!!!!!!!Ready to be real adults now?Cuz I still need a sponsor…. AND recognition
14 September 2009 at 6:56 pm