I think Yegge's half right about not being able to interview for DGTS. There's no substitute for on-the-job judgments. On the other hand, there's a profile.
Douglas Crockford, for instance, wants hackers who are friends with SICP and TAoCP. Bill Gates said something similar back in the day. http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-TBPekxc1dLNy5DOloPfzVvFIVOWMB...
I've taken Eric Raymond's hacker HOWTO as a kind of program toward DGTS. http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
Yegge has emphasized a deep understanding of compilers and languages in the past. To me the benefits are still tantalizingly out of reach. http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/06/rich-programmer-food...
I think Yegge's half right about not being able to interview for DGTS. There's no substitute for on-the-job judgments. On the other hand, there's a profile.
Douglas Crockford, for instance, wants hackers who are friends with SICP and TAoCP. Bill Gates said something similar back in the day. http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-TBPekxc1dLNy5DOloPfzVvFIVOWMB...
I've taken Eric Raymond's hacker HOWTO as a kind of program toward DGTS. http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
Yegge has emphasized a deep understanding of compilers and languages in the past. To me the benefits are still tantalizingly out of reach. http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/06/rich-programmer-food...