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Re:Ask HN: What makes a programmer a rockstar? by rubiquity on Sunday February 15, 2015 @12:04PM (#9053171)
A programmer that is also a member of a really successful rock band. No person possessing both of these attributes walks the earth, yet. It is widely rumored that Steven Tyler might be interested in HTML, however. We will have to see how this develops.
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Re:Ask HN: What makes a programmer a rockstar? by lgieron on Sunday February 15, 2015 @12:19PM (#9053241)
AFAIR Jonny Greenwood (from Radiohead) said in an interview that he himself wrote a lot of the synthetizers that the band uses.
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Re:Ask HN: What makes a programmer a rockstar? by Marinlemaignan on Sunday February 15, 2015 @02:07PM (#9053626)
The guys from Propellerheads made Reason https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzLT6_TQmq8 https://www.propellerheads.se/reason Not saying i'm a big fan of the soft...
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Re:Ask HN: What makes a programmer a rockstar? by rubiquity on Sunday February 15, 2015 @12:39PM (#9053288)
He qualifies as a rock star developer.
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Re:Ask HN: What makes a programmer a rockstar? by camhenlin on Monday February 16, 2015 @02:41AM (#9055784)
Fred Durst was a programmer and Linux hacker prior to Limp Bizkit. RedHat is named after his red NY Yankee's hat. Rockstar programmer?
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Re:Ask HN: What makes a programmer a rockstar? by tdicola on Sunday February 15, 2015 @03:16PM (#9053899)
Didn't Will Smith study computer science before he got into acting, music, movies, etc?
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Re:Ask HN: What makes a programmer a rockstar? by mbleigh on Sunday February 15, 2015 @03:32PM (#9053985)
The bassist from ok go, Andy, also builds mobile apps.
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