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I do this as a hobby, definitely no plans to ever make it a career. That said, my greatest programming influence is you guys here on CP. My biggest drive is just my love of creating code that is useful.
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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Suprised this wasn't an option, I am most inspired by game devs who have made it big going solo. People like Markus Persson (Notch, the guy who made Minecraft).
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I was totally thinking the same thing. So successful indie dev ..... that's somewhere between Top Peers and Inspirations maybe.
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Caffeine.
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Author of 'The Soul of a New Machine'. He told us we were part of something special.
All round good guy.
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I just look at new tech and do whatever is most complex
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I have learned new languages because it's where some of the funnest jobs were. I am in this profession for the fun of it and often proclaim that I am amazed they pay me to do this.
you want something inspirational??
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My name on the front page of CP for a week! I better get self-powered!
Marc
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get to work!
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Quoting Bugs Bunny: "Did you ever have the feeling you was being watched? That the eyes of the crowd were upon you?"
Software Zen: delete this;
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Marc Clifton wrote: I better get self-powered!
Nah, you don't belong to the crowd...
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson
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Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
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If money is your hope for independence, you cannot reach it.
Being loved gives you strength,
while loving gives you courage.
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Legend would be John Carmack
and Rockstar John Romero
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Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote: Rockstar John Romero
One word: "Daikatana"
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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yeah. We should always forget the successes and only remember the failures
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One success (Wolfenstien) and one HUGE success (Doom / Quake), both as part of a damn good team, and then he's off on his own, promising so much. Years late he produces a POS that plays like a dead dog and makes everybody wonder just how much of the big success was really his work...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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The people who really inspire me are great educators *and* coders like Donald Knuth and Alex Stepanov. I can't really see them in any of the categories offered by this poll.
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Hi,
Agree with you on Alexander Stepanov (I have his book: Elements of programming)
With friendly greetings,
Eric Goedhart
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It's kind of worrying how large a proportion of developers responded "self-powered".
I try to learn as much as possible from as many good sources as I can find - all of those have influenced me.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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+1.
IMO "self-powered" doesn't even make sense: At some level you need to refer to documentation or external sources to see how things work at a basic level. Even then, you can't just magically know that super-duper-new-techhy-shiney-thing-named-after-coffee is available, so even for this you can't be self-powered.
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If you read it the way I read it - that's self-powered. You're not waiting for somebody to tell you what to do next, you're pro-actively out looking.
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For some strange reason I was attracted to computers when I was 7 (30 years ago).
At that time my neighbor got his SINCLAIR ZX SPECTRUM+[^] for birthday. He's 6 years older than me and couldn't care less about it.
For me was an amaizing piece of... something I couldn't really understand. Full of letters and numbers and I had never seen anything like that. I was still not sure what it was used for but I liked it... A lot!
I liked it so much that my parents were "forced" to buy me one 1 year later. A Timex Computer 2048[^]
WOW!! That was a bomb!!
Since then I had several other machines and became a professional geek.
I can say that I manged to arrive where I am thanks to the support of my parents but I can't really identify anyone I can say was an inspiration for me.
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Much like me, but I began from loving and programming calculators! I have pretty much programmed *everything* programmable, from microcontrollers, calculators, early computers (I remember VIC20 with 2K of RAM!) and mobile phones to mainframes, clusters and GPUs, and every OS I have found! I learned x86 Assembly language *right after* I learned a little from GWBasic! So yeah, I call myself self-powered
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"Code Complete" by Steve McConnell.
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Linus Torvolds should be Linus Torvalds
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