rusty-cohle

I think you are right but I think that also is going to be part and parcel of traditional colleges changing. You absolutely cannot replace the role of college community nor tenured professors working with you in person. It, in my experience, doesn't translate to online. You need these people for mentorship and to offer constructive and informed criticism of your work. We as humans need the socialization so we don't turn into cranks.

HN and SV despise schooling sometimes, but we as a society don't progress without it being dominant in some form or fashion.

Funnily enough, that scene ends with some dude yelling "fascist!" and walking out. I never knew how uncannily accurate of a parody that stuff was until I started posting on HN.

I've been interested in this lately. I keep getting the feeling that it, like lots of programming knowledge, remains locked up in the minds of a limited set of greybeards.

Not entirely the same thing, but Mike Pall wrote luajit2 mostly by himself. The interpreter alone is faster than the original luajit.

When I see how much small teams like the lua team and Mike have done, I know there is massive inefficiency in our industry. We got caught up in the new hotness and we discard all of the knowledge of the past, to our own detriment.