Outside the tech world, everyone talks about public figures like Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Sam Altman, and others. However, those in IT or with CS background know that people like Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson, Alan Turing, researchers and mathematician are the ones who truly built this industry. Sadly, they don't get enough credit or movies. People these days worship grifters and I think it is really sad.
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in reply to nixCraft π§ • • •> "People these days worship grifters".
Nothing new there. It's always been like this; it's the best marketer who gets the credit, and it's not necessarily the same person who did all the work.
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in reply to nixCraft π§ • • •the problem is that we are taught to worship grifters. Look at school books, they'll all say Edison invented the lightbulb. No mention of Lindsay or Swann. Never ever. Same thing for Nikola Tesla...
Great inventors are geniuses with great ideas, but they are poor marketers. The grifters are just great marketing people, exceptionnally good at stealing ideas and filing patents before real inventors do and making very big money with them.
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in reply to nixCraft π§ • • •Steve Jobs was truly an asshole, but putting him in the same category as Elon Musk and Sam Altman is unwarranted.
Jobs understood and cared about design, user experience, and quality in ways that no one else in the industry was willing to promote. The state of computing today would be immeasurably worse without those qualities.
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in reply to nixCraft π§ • • •I mean, that's the point, right? Destroying every other primate around me, hoarding every banana; even if they're more than I can eat, even if they're starting to rot.
How else should I measure success?
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in reply to nixCraft π§ • • •Also, peruse the Oral Histories:
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I'd done a few interviews, including of old colleagues: got Ken to talk about computer chess, sadly didn't catch Dennis before he died, did visit Princeton to get Brian Kernighan.
Oral history - Search catalog - Online collections - CHM
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Kernighan
& Ritchie
& Thompson
& Knuth