▶ No.878459>>878462 >>878955 >>880675 >>892263
>>878455 (OP)
I look up to Bill, Steve and Woz. Literal nobodies, the worst of the "ideas guys" who scammed programmers into catapulting them into billionaires.
That's the attitude you have to have in the world.
▶ No.878462>>878475 >>880675
>>878459
Except Bill was actually a good programmer but he realized being a chad manager pays better
▶ No.878475>>878905 >>892263
>>878462
>Bill
>Chad
Are you retarded? Gates has not a single Chad characteristic.
▶ No.878495>>892263
>>878455 (OP)
Alan Cox
DJB
Carmack
▶ No.878500>>878529 >>892030
>Do you look up to anyone in tech?
No.
>Do you have anyone who inspires you?
No one inspires me.
I have no inspiration other than to learn as much as I can, but even as I live comfortably, I have no hope for the future. Any contributions I make will be to the benefit of worthless mongoloid subhumans who being inept, will not even have the good sense to appreciate them. Life is a mistake.
▶ No.878514>>878540 >>892263
The cypherpunks in the 90s were cool. A big "fuck you" to the government and giving them a taste of their own medicine by bending the rules.
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▶ No.878529>>878548
>>878500
if you want to please subhumans you could simply write a new gtk file picker
▶ No.878530>>878553
>>878523
Because of PayPal or his new billionaire pet projects?
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▶ No.878540
>>878514
What's the catch? Gotta smoke on livestream fed directly into the FBI HQ? Dude blockchain lmao
▶ No.878548
>>878529
Subhumans don't use desktop computers.
▶ No.878551>>892263
>>878455 (OP)
Ted Kaczynski
▶ No.878553>>878642 >>889705
>>878530
I chose him just to get a reaction but even if I think half of his pet projects are retarded, the fact that he dug into his own wealth to create and bring about what he thinks is the future is respectable. Outside of philanthropy, I can't think of too many others who've done something as cool with their gains.
If I had to name other tech peeps that I look up to it would have to be Jeff Bezo's, Jack Parsons, Ben Rich, Nick Szabo, and Vitalik Buterin.
▶ No.878557>>878563 >>878594
>>878455 (OP)
I admire rms greatly, and I wish that I could have his intelligence and drive.
▶ No.878563>>878594 >>889612
>>878557
>you will never give a half hour rant about FOSS software at a graduation convocation you've been invited to
I wish there was something I believed in as much as RMS believes in free software
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbsifBoI_0E
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APb1tNxvGMY
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukQURxJ2QYc
▶ No.878594
>>878557
>>878563
We don't need a second Stallman. You don't need to have the drive he has, all you need to do is learn what it is he teaches and teach it to people who are willing to listen. I can recreate any of Stallman's speeches from my head because I know what he knows regarding the matters of freedom in computing, technology in general and copyright. I can teach people the three hour lecture or the ten second elevator pitch about the rationale of the technology I choose to keep. You can do this as well.
▶ No.878606
Steve wozniak was and is the greatest. hes a true hacker and doesnt care to take credit.
he cares so little that he spent his billions on music festivals for youngsters.
there's also ne0h who hacked the white house but i dont think they found him
there are so many people that will never be remembered.
wozniak is the greatest.
▶ No.878642
>>878553
>jeff bezo
do you like him because he is a modern slave owner and gets away with it?
▶ No.878643>>878665 >>878666
>>878455 (OP)
is this rms?
▶ No.878662
>>878455 (OP)
>Do you look up to anyone in tech?
>Do you have anyone who inspires you?
I dunno, mostly no.
But if I had to pick some, that would be a few simple men who know shit and do it right.
Like Raymond Hill, Kornel.Lesiński, Niklas Haas, …, in no particular order.
▶ No.878665
>>878643
no
It's some cool dude who worked on the linux but I can't remember the name of
▶ No.878666
>>878643
just remembered, alan cox
▶ No.878706>>878711
Michael Abrash. Knows graphics and assembler inside and out, software and hardware. Wrote games, including pioneering work on Quake. Key influence on Direct-X, then went on to make one of the finest 2D video codecs, and one of the best software D3D renderers, which he then parleyed into Intel's Larabee and Xeon Phi projects that are our last best hope to fully merge CPUs and GPUs.
On a similar note, Eric Traut, whose deep understanding of ISAs was used on Apple's crucial PPC-68k emulator, then the Virtual PC project that was the bellwether of wintel emulation on Macs, the legendary CVGS, easily the most successful commercial emulator, that managed to make Sony shake in their boots, and repurposing VPC to pioneering commodity hypervisor applications at M$.
On a more /tech/ related note, Cameron Kaiser. Pretty much singlehandedly maintains a PPC/OSuX fork of Firefox (TenFourFox), in addition to a less active project maintaining a classic Mac system fork of Mozilla derived from the old Japanese WAMcom fork, another project to keep an active gophernet with clients for modern platforms, and numerous other projects. In order to support these retrocomputing projects, he has pretty much singlehandedly ported entire modern compiler and library toolchains to these old platforms, and hand-optimized assembler-level ground up rewrites of entire Javascript, CSS, WebM and other engines, all of which have also incidentally helped PPC ports of such projects on other OSs like Linux alive. On top of that, he's an avid hardware collector, with tons of oddball machines ancient and modern, many of which he uses for all sorts of things. He's pretty much Terry Davis if Terry wasn't fucking insane.
▶ No.878711>>878720
>>878706
>Michael Abrash
>to make one of the finest 2D video codecs
RoQ, or which one?
why do you think it is one of the finest?
▶ No.878720>>878730
>>878711
I was thinking particularly of RAD's Bink and Smacker, which are pretty much always miles ahead of any of their real-world contemporaries in terms of encoding technology, playback performance, system requirements, and special features like alternate channels.
▶ No.878730
>>878720
oh yeah, then that's true.
▶ No.878744
>>878691
>le /b/ maymay xD
▶ No.878747>>892263
>>878455 (OP)
Aaron Swartz
▶ No.878808>>878831 >>879225
Chris Sawyer.
He wrote some crazy good games in the 90s and early 2000s, all in assembler.
▶ No.878831>>879050
>>878808
I don't think he's the most influential programmer ever or anything like that, but I really admire him. It's cool as shit to think that rollercoaster tycoon is written entirely (99%) in assembly, and it really showed too. The system requirements really are pretty sparce for a game that came out in 1999:
>Pentium ii 233mhz
>16mb vram
>32mb ram
>200mb hdd space (and it probably takes less, these are the minimum recommended specs)
I only wish I was autistic enough to do something like that.
▶ No.878858>>878862
Bob Widler. What a legend.
▶ No.878862>>879046
>>878858
Typo, I meant Bob Widlar.
▶ No.878874
>Wanted to build a tunnel under Los Angeles, he did
>Sold tens of thousands of flamethrowers and hats to celebrate because he can
>Launched a car he designed himself in a rocket he designed himself into space
>and then landed the rocket
Elon Musk is a pretty impressive dude right now and I think deserves some mad respect
Also old Billy Gates because he was one the first person in history who realized he could treat operating systems like products seperate from hardware Before autists jump on me for this, reminder Microsoft BASIC was released nearly a decade before UNIX System V and was preceeded only by CP/M as far as an "OS as a product" business model is concerned. Mocrosoft won because they did see the potential in incorporating multimedia into their software at a time when most OS devs only cared about business.
▶ No.878875>>878890 >>878905
von Braun, I consider the moon landing Humanity's greatest accomplishment. inb4 soundstage.
William Shockley also deserves a mention. Invented the transistor, and towards the end of his life became a full race realist. Shockley advocated the voluntary sterilization of sub 100 IQ brainlets.
▶ No.878890>>878902
>>878875
>Shockley advocated the voluntary sterilization of sub 100 IQ brainlets.
/tech/ is not gonna like this idea...
▶ No.878902
>>878890
>/tech/: One sterilization please.
>doc, noticing black linux t-shirt: Sorry, it's one per person.
▶ No.878905>>878923 >>878987
>>878475
>>878875
>Shockley advocated the voluntary sterilization of sub 100 IQ brainlets
And now if you're a sub-80 IQ brainlet lowlife scrum you can live comfiliy from "social benefits", especially if rather than undergo sterilisation you bang out many more little brainlets.
▶ No.878907
>>878861
I also admire him, but he spergs out sometimes for completely pointless reasons.
▶ No.878908>>878910
Anyone younger than Linus Torvalds and John Carmack who could be considered in their league competence- and/or significance-wise?
▶ No.878910
>>878908
Elon Musk is younger than Carmack by 1 year and Carmack is younger than Linus Torvalds by 1 year
▶ No.878923>>878970
>>878905
>My research leads me inescapably to the opinion that the major cause of the American Negro's intellectual and social deficits is hereditary and racially genetic in origin and, thus, not remediable to a major degree by practical improvements in the environment.
--Shockley
Keep that in mind any time some libtard wants you to believe that the "left" has a proprietary hold on tech.
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▶ No.878955
>>878459
>I look up to Bill, Steve and Woz.
>Steve and Woz
That's like saying that you look up to "Bill and Gates."
▶ No.878970
>>878923
I mean, Shockley got cucked by Noyce, so I think I'll keep on believing as I already do
▶ No.878976
>>878455 (OP)
no because I am not a soyboy
▶ No.878987>>878990
>>878905
People who live in poverty actually have more kids than people who are affluent and well-educated. Welfare is functionally a eugenics program to limit the number of niglets that get conceived. This is why you need to support the expansion of welfare and student aid programs: so black women will stop having kids because they're too busy with school.
▶ No.878990>>879005
>>878987
I'm actually pretty far to the left, and think that racial supremacism is ridiculous superstition, but I've always favored the idea of offering cash bounties (in the range of hundreds or thousands of dollars per head to Americans) for voluntary implantation of IUDs or surgical sterilization.
▶ No.879005>>879006 >>879014 >>879016 >>879023 >>889784
>>878990
I have always found it strange that Eugenics has been so vehemently opposed by both the American left and right.
▶ No.879006>>879103
>>879005
*in recent years I should add. I know that it was not so controversial 100 years ago.
▶ No.879014>>879023 >>879029 >>879096
>>879005
My main support of such policies is simply to accelerate existing trends toward depopulation to stable, sustainable levels. Tighter labor market, better for the environment, less unwanted children in broken families that will grow up as scum.
Eugenics (even voluntary eugenics beyond the most severe congenital defects) is a bad idea not because of whether it's effective, but because of whether the traits being selected for are actually desirable, as our understanding of most of them ("crystallized intelligence", for instance) is not even close to scientifically rigorous. Look at the heuristics typical consumers use to select computers, phones, software, websites, and other simple commodity goods, and apply that to genetics. Now look at the modern "furry/fat/tranny/sperg/fag/deaf/amputee/etc pride" movements (including "white" pride, which has expanded to encompass groups like the Germans, Slavs, English, Celts, etc. who were all attempting to genocide each other on the grounds of "racial inferiority" less than a couple centuries ago), maybe read some modern "transhumanist/post-singularity" utopian SF about genetic engineering.
Think about what the human race would look like after a few rounds of that.
▶ No.879016>>879024
>>879005
>it's strange that people don't support my stormnigger ideologies
no, it's not.
▶ No.879023>>879029
>>879005
>I have always found it strange that Eugenics has been so vehemently opposed by both the American left and right.
It's simply because it has connotation with Nazies if it wasn't connoted with it there would be a lot less people opposed to it.
This is what I hate with normies, because muh ebil nazies used some ideas of Eugenics (and I agree there was some inhuman ones) that it's mandatory evil, fortunately not everyone in the gov is a nigger about things like that otherwise we wouldn't have landed on the moon or developed metric tons of technology.
>>879014
>My main support of such policies is simply to accelerate existing trends toward depopulation to stable, sustainable levels.
I think the same.
>, but because of whether the traits being selected for are actually desirable, as our understanding of most of them
True but some of them are indeed more or less known for example we know nowadays via statistics that when one of your parent/ancestors had cancer or some mental illness that you have X probability do develop it or transmit it to your offspring of course it's a lot more complicated than that but it's feasible.
>who were all attempting to genocide each other on the grounds of "racial inferiority" less than a couple centuries
>Think about what the human race would look like after a few rounds of that.
It seems that you consider eugenics like if all countries would go in the same direction, or am I wrong ?
A worldwide scale of unknown eugenics is suicide like a lot of worldwide experiment.
A small region size or city sized experiment would be less destructive (if it is destructive).
▶ No.879024
>>879016
>stormnigger ideologies
Do some research on the matter, there's more depth to it.
▶ No.879029
>>879023
>>879014
I do understand the problem of falsely selecting positive traits, yet we do have answers that nature has provided for us. Namely, that the sub-Saharan African races have not progressed anywhere near their northern counterparts. By pretending that this isn't so, we are likely practising dysgenics. Couple that with non-selective migration and the welfare support system they'll end up on, and you quickly exasperate the problem. Amusingly enough, it is actually the African nations I'm referring to which could benefit from an enforced eugenics program the most.
Looking forward, gene therapy and cognitive enhancements offer some hope of accelerating the progress of mankind.
▶ No.879046>>879056 >>879090 >>879231 >>879243 >>879266
>>878455 (OP)
>Do you have anyone who inspires you?
Dead:
-Samuel Morse
-Louis Braille
-Augustus De Morgan
-George Boole
-Claude Shannon
Alive:
>>878862
This
-RMS
Good sides:
>Helped AI in the good direction
>Saw the danger of un-owned hardware/software and dedicated his life to software freedom for everyone.
Bad sides:
Has no skill to communicate with the average joe, obvious autism or extreme stress when talking.
Lost is computer skill wizardry with time.
-Torvalds Linus
Good sides:
>Good standardized programmer.
>Good community manager, chased away SJWs.
>No bullshit policy.
>Made his software commercially available and exploited it.
Bad sides:
>Doesn't consider Tivoization a problem.
>Confessed that CIA Niggers tried to insert backdoors.
-EsR
Good sides:
>Archivist of wizards.
>Has a good historic knowledge of hacker culture.
>C wizard.
>Didn't swallow the social justice pill and goes against it
>Is fair to people.
Bad sides:
Opensource matters more than software freedom.
-Terry Davis
Good sides:
Build his own OS from scratch.
Bad sides:
Schizophrenic
-Theo de Raadt
Good sides:
Technical perfectionist.
Bad sides:
Compromised too much with proprietary software companies.
Permissive license promoter.
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Good sides:
Good teacher.
Created minix the most widespread microkernel in the world on every platform.
Bad sides:
Licensed minix under a permissive license.
Legitimately used has a maintenance set of tools for sysadmins at hardware level, unofficially can be used has a backdoor by governments.
-Lennart Poettering
Good sides:
Made software that just works.
Bad sides:
Made incredibly bad software.
BIG BALL OF MUDS EVERYWHERE.
Bill gates:
Good sides:
Give money to Africa.
Bad sides:
Scammed the world.
Helps CIA niggers.
Steve jobs:
Good sides:
Bad sides:
Removed charity funding.
Scammed the world.
Helped CIA niggers.
▶ No.879050
>>878831
>I only wish I was autistic enough to do something like that.
Actually it's not complicated to do so even in binary, what's complicated and the most time consuming is to remember and take into account all the different exceptions and hardware standards and software standards that exists and it grows A LOT when you add security into it.
▶ No.879056>>879097
>>879046
Stallman hasn't lost any of his computer skill at all. What he's lost is the use of his body. His physical practice of writing computer programs is no longer supported by his body so he is forced to give up the physical practice of programming.
▶ No.879088
>>878906
Why does potter look like such a gayboi?
▶ No.879090
>>879046
>giving money to africa
>good
soyboy/10
▶ No.879096
>>879014
>"tranny/sperg/fag"
>equating spergs to fags and trannies
▶ No.879097>>879099
>>879056
>His physical practice of writing computer programs is no longer supported by his body so he is forced to give up the physical practice of programming.
Why would that be the case? If he can physically use Emacs for half of the day to answer emails, then why couldn't he be programming instead? How could someone who can physically use a computer just fine be physically prevented from using it for a specific purpose?
▶ No.879099>>879240
>>879097
You haven't seen him when he wrote computer programs. He was a real typing demon.
▶ No.879103>>879113 >>879126 >>879220
>>879006
That isn't true. Pro-eugenics has never really been an acceptable position.
▶ No.879113
>>879103
Planned parenthood was literally started for that reason
▶ No.879126
>>879103
Positive vs. negative eugenics.
▶ No.879211
>>878455 (OP)
>Do you look up to anyone in tech?
Tim Pope.
▶ No.879220
>>879103
Au contraire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States
In certain Scandinavian countries, it was practised up until the '70s.
▶ No.879225>>879228
>>878808
And then he became a greedy faggot and tried to rebrand Locomotion as a Transport Tycoon game for shitphones.
▶ No.879228
>>879225
What's wrong with getting paid?
▶ No.879229
Elong Musk inspires me to just bullshit everyone with nonsense.
And you wouldnt believe how well it works.
▶ No.879230>>879358
Just Stallman really. His courage and dedication to his cause is really inspiring. I respect his ability to remain steadfast in spite of the immense pressures of social norms (even if part is it is likely due to autism spectrum disorder). There aren't too many people with the same kind of unwillingness to compromise on principles. He reminds me of Ralph Nader.
▶ No.879231>>879244
>>879046
>Confessed that CIA Niggers tried to insert backdoors.
When was this?
▶ No.879240>>879244
>>879099
So basically he gave up on programming because he couldn't type as fast as he used to because his fingers became fatter? Is that it?
▶ No.879243>>879244
>>879046
>Torvalds Linus
>Bad sides:
>Confessed that CIA Niggers tried to insert backdoors
So he should not have convessed they tried? Or what?
▶ No.879244>>879281
▶ No.879247>>879278 >>879309 >>879365 >>892263
Gary Kildall, John McAfee, Ed Roberts and Dennis Ritchie.
▶ No.879266
>>879046
>Bad sides:
>Confessed that CIA Niggers tried to insert backdoors
surely trying to hide it would have been worse
▶ No.879278
>>879247
Gary Kildall was pretty legendary and I am surprised someone else knew him.
>>878455 (OP)
I am inspired by Terry Davis because he is an actual genius.
Also - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_B._Alexander is a person that I don't agree with but am impressed by what he did. He was the most powerful man in the world when people didn't understand what it meant to be him.
▶ No.879281>>879294
>>879244
>RMs has health problem.
Namely the fact he is severely autistic
▶ No.879294>>879311
>>879281
Call it autism but from what I get from the extremely rare moments that he talked about is personal life besides MIT labs moment, he was raised in a very dysfunctional family, I suppose that his father was a violent type either orally or physical, his behavior and body language seems to be one of a very stressed/anguished person when in public.
The thing that I admire with RMS is his tenacity he has never given up since he started the software freedom movement and god there's so much that has fallen on him since he began literally the whole computer industry was against the movement that he initialized.
▶ No.879309
>>879247
>Gary Kildall
If only he had been in office that day when the IBM emissaries came, he would have signed that damn NDA and would have been where Bill Gates ended up being.
▶ No.879311>>879342 >>879349 >>879354
>>879294
No its most certainly autism, as in actual clinical autism. Watch that video again of him in Brazil where he spergs out because someone wanted him to speak Spanish
▶ No.879342>>879354 >>879355 >>879357
>>879311
He sperged out because in the beginning he asked if people preferred him to speak spanish (which is close to portuguese) or english, the audience told him english, so he did the first half of the talk in english then they stop him and ask him to switch to spanish as most people have no idea what he's saying, and by then he has no time to do the full talk. Put yourself on his shoes, you travel to another country, ask the audience if they understand you, talk for an hour and then they let you know they were bluffing and don't really know what you're saying.
▶ No.879349
>>879311
He sperged out because he had almost finished the talk, and then someone came and told him to do it all again because nobody in the audience spoke english
▶ No.879354
>>879311
Dude do you know the context of that conference ?
See what >>879342 said.
▶ No.879355>>879375 >>880683
>>879342
>spanish (which is close to portuguese)
Popular misconception. They're somewhat similar but also much different. It's like saying English is close to German.
▶ No.879357
>>879342
If some group of people choose to pretend their knowledge of English is way better than it actually is, then it should be their problem and not his.
▶ No.879358
>>879230
Stallman simply likes his freedom and has made it his mission to teach people about the meaning of freedom in the technology we keep. Most of society do not think about these issues or even the matter of freedom in general. They get their education from companies who encourage their customers a life of "convenience" that doesn't necessarily support their freedom.
▶ No.879363
So basically all those tech geniuses/wizards/gurus mentioned in this thread are at least in their late 40 by now (Poettering isn't but then again including him in this kind of pantheon is highly questionable to begin with). What heirs and successors do they have? Or is it soyboys, pajeets, and "diversity hires" all the way down from now on? Did pic related get his way in the end? Is tech doomed in the long run?
▶ No.879365>>879388 >>879407 >>879448
>>879247
>John McAfee
Literally why? Do you enjoy using one of the most obnoxiously intrusive anti-virus software out there?
▶ No.879375>>879386
>>879355
Portuguese and Spanish are much closer than English and German (not surprisingly, since English gets words from any language it pleases, Latin, French, German, it doesn't give a fuck). For Portuguese/Spanish while the words aren't the same the root often is so if you can understand the word being said (the speaker slows it down) you can deduce its meaning (other romance languages also often share the same root, but aren't as close, so instead of getting say 70% of the words you can get maybe 20% if the speaker tries to be simple instead of flowery). There are words which are completely different, and also words which are very similar but with completely different meanings (die in german/english for example), but those are few so if you know one you can understand the other if the speaker doesn't try to fuck with you. One problem is you need to pay much more attention to get the other language, so while it works for say 20 minutes I can't do it for 1 hour.
▶ No.879386
>>879375
>(die in german/english for example)
Also try "gift" and "mist" :^)
(in German, "Gift" means "poison" and "Mist" means "dung", so not quite what one might expect).
▶ No.879388
>>879365
>this new paradigm
Why use sneak oil charlatan buzzwords like that?
▶ No.879407
>>879365
you're just jealous mcafee is a more accomplished troll than you will ever be
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▶ No.880675>>889618
>>878459
>>878462
>they think you gotta stop being a true hacker to become a millionaire.
Kids these days, man
▶ No.880683
>>879355
German and English share elements because they were once the same language. Over two thousand years ago! And English became what it is long after Saxons and Anglos had been separated for centuries from the tribes that stayed in Germany.
Spanish and Portuguese were the same language less than a thousand years ago, they lived closely together ever since, and some regions of Portugal have dialects much closer to Spanish than what you'd call Portuguese, and the other way around as well. And they were even both ruled in the last centuries by the same Royal family.
TLDR you're retarded, and Brazilians aren't human if they can't unserstand Spanish.
▶ No.880806
RMS
John McCarthy
Donald Knuth
▶ No.881232
Terry Davis and Robert Pelloni. Because despite their fairly severe mental illnesses they both made something that's arguably better than what any given anon on this board could do by themselves.
<inb4 the two guys here who wrote impressive shit come here to BTFO of me
pic related, Pelloni having fun with some faggot from kotaku that's probably a pedo.
▶ No.889610
RMS, I wish I was as autistic as he is. I just can't kick the comforts of proprietary shit and I need to shower at least twice a week.
Also Ian Murdock, except for the an hero part.
▶ No.889612
>>878563
I believe in free knowledge.
▶ No.889618
>>880675
Is this the truecrypt author?
▶ No.889702
I mainly just look down on the posters on this board.
▶ No.889705
>>878553
>tech peeps
Rich fucks aren't tech peeps nigger.
▶ No.889784
>>879005
Because it will get subverted and used to fuck people over, just like any other thing that can potentially help humanity but will bring great harm if abused, like with GMOs (e.g. sterile plants that don't give seeds so you have to keep buying them).
▶ No.891948
Definitely not a fat Jewish communist.
▶ No.891986
Brendan Eich because screw cuckzilla.
▶ No.891993>>891999
Dennis Ritchie, Steve Jobs and Linus Torvalds
I think all these people just have an eye for elegance and beauty.
▶ No.891999
>>891993
>Steve Jobs not Steve Wozniak
>elegance and beauty
heh. you should expand your mind and look up why Woz built computers and his strategy for designing them.
▶ No.892030
>>878500
Make something that these subhumans won't be able to use then. Something terminal-based will dump 99% of them.
▶ No.892043>>892221 >>892236 >>892469
>>878455 (OP)
most people in the field of computer graphics.
People like jim Blinn or ken Perlin tends to be the people I look forward to. There's also the guy which made shadertoy who impresses me alot considering I do am a fan of procedural mesh generation. Most like the average human being, the teacher I got at uni also tends to be programmer I look forward to.
Also, my laptop is signed by stallman
▶ No.892221
>>892043
it better be a libre booted thinkpad
▶ No.892236
>>892043
>my laptop is signed by stallman
*I got sicp signed by rms.*
▶ No.892240
No, I hate people. This is why im in tech.
Looking up to 'idols' is for cattle.
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>>878459
Woz's earlier days are inspiring. The guy built the first release of one of the most popular early home computers from scratch. The Apple 1 is a nerd legend. He is a hero to me, even if his Woz U is sketch as fuck.
>>878475
Torvalds not only developed and maintans the greatest anti-corporate OS but has an attitude to boot. I like him.
>>878495
Carmack is the quintessential engineer. I hope his space efforts are fruitful someday. I like him as well.
>>878514
They are still around, though many of them ether went to the dark side or are on the dark side. One name that is big in those circles is a hero of mine.
>>878551
Isn't he more anti-/tech/ than tech? Not really a hero of mine but definitely an interesting guy with some sadly prophetic things to say.
>>878554
Oh fuck yes Terry is a hero of mine. A literal madman who built his own OS through the sheer power of determination, autism, and madness. I hope he finds his way out of the streets and back in front of a computer.
>>878747
I like that he had the balls to try to make public domain, you know, public. I truly wish more people had his passion for fucking up the intellectual property crowd. I'm sure he would have given me a reason to hate him along with the rest of the reddit spergs if he lived through Gamergate but what a sad loss.
>>879247
>John McAfee
Same for similar reasons to Terry. The guy is an eccentric with a good mind... or at least as good as it can be with all the drugs he has pumped into it. I may have voted for him in the last election if the alternative to Trump were Sanders instead of Hillary. Absolute madman. (Also he hasn't been associated with the antivirus he built in ages. Became shit after he was gone.)
Names I'd like to add to the list:
Deadmau5: A edm guy who knows his hardware. I gotta admire a guy who knows his gear inside and out and builds some of the shit he uses on stage too. He isn't just a retard who puts shitty music together in a daw. He knows his tech. I admire that there is someone Hollywood-famous like that.
Brian Kernighan - Really good at explaining high level shit in a really down to earth manner. Saw a ton of Ritchie but this guy is pretty cool too.
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>>892043
When Stallman signed my laptop the windows 7 partition on it immediately broke.
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>>892469
You have been blessed by St Ignucious, my child. You know what you must do now, you must defenestrate your computer for your penance of using Windows.
▶ No.893102
>>878455 (OP)
Mitnick and Poulsen, mainly because I grew up without a strong father figure and those con-men with their used car salesman attitudes appealed to me, for some reason. Terry is also OK in my book, a /tech/ equivalent of an outsider artist, misunderstood and shunned. Stallman is a meme by this point, but his attitude towards maintaining personal freedom is something that brings a tear to my eyes in these wretched times.