The 12 most "dick" programmers who are still working today

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1, Linus Torvalds, he developed Linux, a free operating system, at the University of Helsinki's dorm. Today, Linux has become the most popular operating system for many of the world's largest data centers, supercomputers, and server farms. In addition, many Linux enthusiasts are keen to install the operating system.

Torvalds also known as" Poison Tongue ", in a recent interview, an audience member asked Torvalds, whether his character will cause the Linux community members to leave, And his answer is astonishing, he said, "You are willing to leave and leave, I do not care about you." "

2, in this article to introduce the 12 most bull programmers, Tim Bemers-lee is the only one by the Queen Elizabeth II honours knighthood of the programmer. He invented the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), and the entire internet was built on this technology.

Recently, Bemers-lee is responsible for the low-cost Internet alliance (Alliance for affordable internet), a nonprofit organization that Launched jointly by Google, Facebook and Microsoft's three giants, it aims to provide the world with cheaper and affordable broadband Internet services.

3. Donald Knuth's academic achievements in the computer industry have made him known as the "Father of algorithmic analysis". Whether it's Facebook's news Feed algorithm or Amazon's recommendation engine, it's all because of his work.

Now, he is 77 years old, Knuth is still writing his multi-volume "computer Programming Art", the latest version of the book was released in 2011. He is also an honorary retired professor at Stanford University.

4, Brendan Eich is the inventor of JavaScript, this programming language has become a Web application development standard program language.

Recently, Brendan Eich has been a source of controversy, and he has served as chief executive Officer of Mozilla (the company that developed Mozilla Firefox), but not for a long time, Because he had donated money to the National marriage organization, which opposed gay marriage and supported California's anti-gay marriage proposal Proposition 8, he left after a short term.

5, Solomon Hykes is the founder of Docker, Docker is a very hot technology that is very popular with programmers because the code they write with Docker can run in any environment.

In fact, Docker started out as a side project for a company called DotCloud. But as Docker became more popular, the company began to transform and provide support specifically for Docker. Recently, it has been rumored that Docker has valued more than $1 billion.

6 The most amazing thing about Mark Zuckerberg is that he developed Facebook in his dorm room at Harvard University. Today, Facebook's motto has been known as "breaking the rules and moving forward," a motto that continues to lead the entrepreneurial culture around the world.

Zuckerberg's philosophy is to bring people from all over the world together to promote social engagement, and it's based on this philosophy that drives Facebook to keep moving forward.

7, Danish programmer David Heinemeier Hansson (in the programmer circle, he is famous for DHH name) developed the Ruby on Rails programming language, which is a very popular Web application framework, He relied on the language to win the title of 2005 hacker that Google granted.

Hansson was also an avid racer, who had been in the 24-hour car race in Le Mans for 2012 years and became the first in his class in 2014.

8, Richard Stallman has been struggling for the free software movement since the 80 's, and he has developed many successful projects, and says that the programs and tools he has developed are not owned by any company.

Stallman is best known for his" non-profit copyright "concept, which applies U.S. copyright laws to ensure that software can be used in the public domain, It was thanks to Stallman that the rise of the open source movement enabled us to enjoy many of the hottest technologies, such as Docker,linux,hadoop,spark, and so on.

9, Bram Cohen invented the BitTorrent bitstream protocol in 2001, and he pioneered a new area where users can split large files into small chunks, not only faster, but also downloaded at the same time.

BitTorrent is very popular and estimates that the number of users worldwide is more than 2.5 billion. Last year, Thom Yorke, the lead singer of Radio Radiohead, released a new album and was exclusively released on the BitTorrent, earning him $ millions of soon. Of course, because the BitTorrent protocol is anonymous, and the download speed is very fast, it also makes a lot of pirated music, movies, and games are rampant.

10, James Gosling invented the Java language, which, like JavaScript, is the world's most popular programming language. (In fact, in addition to the name, there is no similarity between the Java and JavaScript programming languages).

Gosling invented the Java language while working at Sun Microsystems, which was acquired by the industry giant Oracle in 2010. After that, Gosling left the company and began to keep attacking Oracle. He later worked briefly for five months at Google and now joins a start-up company named Liquidrobotics.

11, Danish computer scientist Bjarne Stroustrup invented the C + + programming language in 1978, which is based on the C language invented by Dennis Ritchie, adding many features that make the programming language easier for the public to accept.

Stroustrup really a busy man, he is not only the Dean of engineering School of Computer Science College of Texas Agricultural University, but also a visiting professor at Columbia University, and worked at investment bank Morgan Stanley.

12, John Carmack,id Software co-founder, the famous Doom game creator. In addition, he is a pioneer in 3D image technology and is still working in this field.

Now Carmack, a CTO at Oculus VR, has been acquired by Facebook and will apply his knowledge of graphics development to the next generation of VR helmets

 

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The 12 most "dick" programmers who are still working today