Programmers are most likely to work from home

Re:Programmers are most likely to work from home by nickthemagicman on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @02:27PM (#14100396)

Agreed. We all stand on the shoulders of giants.

The point is one SOLO GENIUS took all of the tools available to them at that point in history and made something amazing.

By your logic we have to go back and say cavemen inventing fire are key contributors to the Linux kernel because fire was an important tool to the creation of civilization which was critical for the invention of operating systems.

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Re:Programmers are most likely to work from home by chillacy on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @06:25PM (#14102302)

Well if you want to take my logic down the slippery slope of your own invention then you can make me claim anything :)

I don't doubt the importance of taking ownership for your projects and having good taste, as opposed to design-by-committee. But I think you're overstating the degree to which they worked isolated from others. I think these examples you've given involve people with good taste (or call it vision) who said no to a lot of prevailing wisdom and yes to other ideas... but it wasn't literally "I'm going to go into my house for 5-10 years and emerge out with perfection". It's usually more iterative.

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