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Re:A Belarus artist still driving his home-made Soviet car by seyfulislam on Thursday February 12, 2015 @06:23AM (#9038347)
Afraid not. A programmer re-invents the wheel to fully understand the inner workings. I've never heard of anybody (non-programmer) who spent months/years to program a software from scratch just because he can't afford buying it. This guy wasn't a mechanical engineer or something, too.
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Re:A Belarus artist still driving his home-made Soviet car by gambiting on Thursday February 12, 2015 @06:30AM (#9038359)
He worked in a weapons factory, so I imagine he wasn't there filling spreadsheets. He was probably operating heavy machinery,so even if he wasn't an engineer by education, he had the knowledge needed to do it.
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Re:A Belarus artist still driving his home-made Soviet car by Pxtl on Thursday February 12, 2015 @08:16AM (#9038626)
If you weren't a programmer when you started, you are when you finished. Wasn't Torvalds pretty much a hobbyist when he began?
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Re:A Belarus artist still driving his home-made Soviet car by rada on Thursday February 12, 2015 @09:28AM (#9038880)
Torvalds graduated from college with a Master's in Comp Sci.
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Re:A Belarus artist still driving his home-made Soviet car by Pxtl on Thursday February 12, 2015 @02:53PM (#9040969)
Yeah, but I think he was still an undergrad student when he started working on Linux, wasn't he?
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Re:A Belarus artist still driving his home-made Soviet car by astrodust on Thursday February 12, 2015 @10:02AM (#9039012)
Although I'm sure Torvalds was an exception, I've met several people that that level that still can't code to save their life. Being a Comp Sci. major and being a programmer are often orthogonal.
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Re:A Belarus artist still driving his home-made Soviet car by hobs on Thursday February 12, 2015 @08:46AM (#9038714)
There was recently the case of a kid in the australian outback who wrote his own OS from scratch as he was too remote to get anything, it happens more than you think.

Pretty much the same thing as far as I am concerned.

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Re:A Belarus artist still driving his home-made Soviet car by swah on Thursday February 12, 2015 @09:38AM (#9038919)
Maybe the poster is talking about the last phrase?
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