Ask HN: Who is the best programmer you know?
Could you point me in the direction of the best programmer you know? Please drop their LinkedIn or profile here.
Thank you!
Thank you!
* immense domain knowledge
* accounts for operations (in a myriad of ways)
* code comments are succinct and easy to read
* clever, but not too clever
* uses common tooling
* is a better architect than others with that job title
* communicates well and is a genuinely nice guy
> communicates well
The best people I work with do what they say they will do.
Additionally, your entire answer (generally) applies to pretty much any field, not just programming. But I'll also add on that great professionals understand and accept how their role supports/fits into the goals of the business.
There was once a shortest useful program contest, his entry was 2 bytes long[1]
When he lost the source to a program he wrote, he created ReSource, a disassembler[2] that got forked a few times over and eventually gave us the NSA's GHIDRA
He was stuck at home because of a snow storm, and with Randy Suess, created one of the first BBS systems, and open sourced it.[3]
[1] https://cdn.preterhuman.net/texts/underground/BBSes/CBBS/199...
[2] https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2019-January/...
[3] http://vintagecomputer.net/cisc367/byte%20nov%201978%20compu...