Becoming a Famous Programmer

An anonymous reader writes "GrokCode analyzes more than 200 famous programmers to determine what types of projects made them famous. Inventing a programming language, game, or OS ranked among the top projects likely to lead to fame. Most programmers became famous through their work on only one project. The article also shows that among famous programmers, the ratio of males to females is much larger than among normal programmers."

Comments

Re:Can you think of any famous female programmers?

[electrictroy]

There are not many famous women engineers either. I suspect women simply don't have as much interest in "gadgets" as we men do. Likewise we men don't have much interest in shopping sprees for the latest clothing & shoe styles.

BACK TO LIST:

Where are the programmers from Atari, Commodore, and Activision? They *definitely* deserve to be there since they created the first arcade game (Pong), first home videogames (Atari 2600 cartridges), and first third-party development company (David Crane, Larry Kaplan, Alan Miller, Bob Whitehead) because they DEMANDED that programmers receive credit on their creations, rather than be treated like anonymous laborers.

(deep breath)

Perhaps I'm just an old curmudgeon, but it annoys me how these lists so often "forget" the contributions to computer industry that occurred during the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. It's almost as if the authors of these lists think nothing existed prior to 1990 except Apple, Gates, Microsoft, and Jobs.

Re:Why a separate "Transsexuals" Category?

[Reality Master 101]

Putting aside the sheer stupidity of claiming that subjective states such as hunger or gender dysphoria don't exist because you can't directly observe them,

Hint: I didn't say that. And I didn't say the other (related) thing you accuse me of.

That's what I love about these psycho-subjects, people who are sensitive to it read whatever they want to read, and it doesn't really matter what I actually *write*.

See also: genetic homosexuality and the attraction mechanism.

Re:Why a separate "Transsexuals" Category?

[Reality Master 101]

See also: genetic homosexuality and the attraction mechanism. [...] What does that have to do with anything? Gender identity and sexual orientation really don't have very much to do with each other, but bigots regularly conflate the two. I'm beginning to get a very clear and ugly picture of your views on the subject.

Okay, here is *exactly* what I'm talking about! Maybe you'll learn something here. To quote myself:

That's what I love about these psycho-subjects, people who are sensitive to it read whatever they want to read, and it doesn't really matter what I actually *write*.

So you automatically take a moonshot to your "very clear and ugly picture". But nowhere did I make the link that you're accusing me of. That's your wacky assumption. I gave you an example of another *subject* that is regularly misinterpreted by people who are sensitive to the subject, and no matter what you write, they'll flake and form and filter you into their worldview -- which is normally a paranoid tinfoil hat "clear and ugly picture."

I think it's actually because your whole identity is tied up in these issues, and any deviation from your worldview (or rather, even any deviation of *PHRASING* from your worldview) is automatically assumed to be a personal attack on your identity. I hope you see the irony here.

If not, let me give you a hint: we are saying EXACTLY THE SAME THING.