I have not found a correlation between developer attitude and brilliance, regretfully.
The rise of Free & Open Source Software added a bias, though: developers who played well with others made more progress in the long term. That and the internet made software a social activity.
Rusty Russell
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2026-08-05 22:31:28 UTC
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