Who are your heroes?
-
Excluding politics, sports and Albert Einstein, who are your biggest heroes? One of mine is the late, great Dr. Stephen Hawkings. Another, despite the fact that I don't actually care for iCrap products, is Steve Wozniak. Note: I would have said Winston Churchill but politicians are excluded.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
Forogar wrote:
Another, despite the fact that I don't actually care for iCrap products, is Steve Wozniak.
Of course, Woz had little or nothing to do with iProducts so he can continue to reign as your hero. :-D Have you read his autobiography? I really enjoyed it and he reveals a lot that wasn't previously known (like the fact that Jobs was never fired from Apple. He was forced into a specific useless role but not fired. Jobs actually quit.) iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It: Steve Wozniak, Gina Smith Amazon.com: Books[^] It's a good fast read and you get quite a bit about the Apple originally came about. Quite inspiring because he talks about creating things with less chips and drawing out computer circuit boards on paper.
-
FFS, Sander, who do you look up to?! I think once you said you admired your father. Then you answer the post with "My father is my hero". Millenials... :sigh:
Well, I guess I could make an exception for my parents. They did pretty well for themselves and they've continued to support me for 31 years and counting... If you can live with me for that long you're definitely a hero! :laugh: But no hero in the "traditional" sense, like someone amazing somewhere that I look up to and that I'd love to meet.
Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly
-
Excluding politics, sports and Albert Einstein, who are your biggest heroes? One of mine is the late, great Dr. Stephen Hawkings. Another, despite the fact that I don't actually care for iCrap products, is Steve Wozniak. Note: I would have said Winston Churchill but politicians are excluded.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
I may not be that good looking, or athletic, or funny, or talented, or smart I forgot where I was going with this but I do know I love bacon!
-
(party pooper mode) Seriously, I don't think I have one; I am probably become blasé. I always wondered when such or such people die will I go down in the street at the funerals ? There are many people I admire (couple of my friends, one or two politicians), but not enough for a hero status.
I'd rather be phishing!
Maximilien wrote:
I always wondered when such or such people die will I go down in the street at the funerals ?
Exactly, like people crying because someone they never even met died, I can't imagine idolizing someone like that. People know where they were and what they were doing when they heard Freddy Mercury died and they sat together with the family... Like he was just a singer! Well, I guess he wasn't "just" a singer to those people (and he was more of an entertainer I guess, not a fan as you can see). It's cool (and scary) that people like Freddy Mercury, or John Lennon, or Steve Jobs, can change lives by just being alive (or not), just not mine. When it's an entertainer it's usually innocent enough, but the world's greatest mass murderers started out like that too.
Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly
-
Well, I guess I could make an exception for my parents. They did pretty well for themselves and they've continued to support me for 31 years and counting... If you can live with me for that long you're definitely a hero! :laugh: But no hero in the "traditional" sense, like someone amazing somewhere that I look up to and that I'd love to meet.
Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly
:thumbsup:
-
Excluding politics, sports and Albert Einstein, who are your biggest heroes? One of mine is the late, great Dr. Stephen Hawkings. Another, despite the fact that I don't actually care for iCrap products, is Steve Wozniak. Note: I would have said Winston Churchill but politicians are excluded.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
I'm surprised nobody has said Chris Maunder & co. As tongue in check as that sounds, my life as a software developer has been significantly, and in positive ways, influenced by the existence of Code Project. While that can be said of many people (99% of them are dead), there's something to be said about a hero that is relevant.
Latest Article - A Concise Overview of Threads Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
-
Excluding politics, sports and Albert Einstein, who are your biggest heroes? One of mine is the late, great Dr. Stephen Hawkings. Another, despite the fact that I don't actually care for iCrap products, is Steve Wozniak. Note: I would have said Winston Churchill but politicians are excluded.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
-
Excluding politics, sports and Albert Einstein, who are your biggest heroes? One of mine is the late, great Dr. Stephen Hawkings. Another, despite the fact that I don't actually care for iCrap products, is Steve Wozniak. Note: I would have said Winston Churchill but politicians are excluded.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
-
Excluding politics, sports and Albert Einstein, who are your biggest heroes? One of mine is the late, great Dr. Stephen Hawkings. Another, despite the fact that I don't actually care for iCrap products, is Steve Wozniak. Note: I would have said Winston Churchill but politicians are excluded.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
Trump. (Not really. I'm just testing the latest upgrade of Godwin's law)
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
-
Excluding politics, sports and Albert Einstein, who are your biggest heroes? One of mine is the late, great Dr. Stephen Hawkings. Another, despite the fact that I don't actually care for iCrap products, is Steve Wozniak. Note: I would have said Winston Churchill but politicians are excluded.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
Tom Scholz.
-
Trump. (Not really. I'm just testing the latest upgrade of Godwin's law)
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
No, you are just cross-site posting again.
-
Excluding politics, sports and Albert Einstein, who are your biggest heroes? One of mine is the late, great Dr. Stephen Hawkings. Another, despite the fact that I don't actually care for iCrap products, is Steve Wozniak. Note: I would have said Winston Churchill but politicians are excluded.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
An entire company - the ARIETE company of World War II.
"Enemy tanks broke through south of Ariete Division. Thus, Ariete surrounded, located 5 kilometers north-west of Bir-el-Abd. Ariete tanks are fighting." — Ariete Division's last radio messageGCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
-
An entire company - the ARIETE company of World War II.
"Enemy tanks broke through south of Ariete Division. Thus, Ariete surrounded, located 5 kilometers north-west of Bir-el-Abd. Ariete tanks are fighting." — Ariete Division's last radio messageGCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
-
Excluding politics, sports and Albert Einstein, who are your biggest heroes? One of mine is the late, great Dr. Stephen Hawkings. Another, despite the fact that I don't actually care for iCrap products, is Steve Wozniak. Note: I would have said Winston Churchill but politicians are excluded.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
-
OriginalGriff :-\
-
Tom Scholz.
Indeed. Back in the day, I would have killed for a Rockman.
This space for rent
-
Excluding politics, sports and Albert Einstein, who are your biggest heroes? One of mine is the late, great Dr. Stephen Hawkings. Another, despite the fact that I don't actually care for iCrap products, is Steve Wozniak. Note: I would have said Winston Churchill but politicians are excluded.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
[Lev Landau - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev\_Landau) The most underrated for his achievement physicist of the last century! :)
A new .NET Serializer All in one Menu-Ribbon Bar Taking over the world since 1371!
-
[Lev Landau - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev\_Landau) The most underrated for his achievement physicist of the last century! :)
A new .NET Serializer All in one Menu-Ribbon Bar Taking over the world since 1371!
Super Lloyd wrote:
most underrated
:confused: He was a Nobel prize winner, I think he rated pretty well.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
-
Super Lloyd wrote:
most underrated
:confused: He was a Nobel prize winner, I think he rated pretty well.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
Everybody is like Tesla is the best, Einstein is the best! Nobody (I mean no laymen) ever invoke the name of Landau.. :(( Yet, when I studied physics, there was always a Landau theorem about whatever topic we were studying! :o
A new .NET Serializer All in one Menu-Ribbon Bar Taking over the world since 1371!
-
Everybody is like Tesla is the best, Einstein is the best! Nobody (I mean no laymen) ever invoke the name of Landau.. :(( Yet, when I studied physics, there was always a Landau theorem about whatever topic we were studying! :o
A new .NET Serializer All in one Menu-Ribbon Bar Taking over the world since 1371!
I wonder how different the world would be if people like Landau were thought of as celebrities?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
