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"Working on nasty little problems makes you stupid."
Article on what makes great hackers and how to use them/yourself and the software community. A very solid read.
With references to Google, Microsoft, and Sun/Java.
Great Hackers (July 2004)
There's an interesting part about how Microsoft should have their smartest people make better tools so their less good coders could still make decent and secure apps with out having to focus on C memory allocation etc.
Interesting that with C# this is what they seem to have done. A prophetic article? Or just very intelligent. And good for Microsoft for picking up on this.
