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September 06, 2006
Questioning the perceived order of things...
The good news about our field is that the really great programmers often started programming when they were 10 years old. And while everyone else their age was running around playing "soccer" (this is a game that many kids who can't program computers play that involves kicking a spherical object called a "ball"¯ with their feet (I know, it sounds weird)), they were in their dad's home office trying to get the Linux kernel to compile.
Finding Great Developers - Joel on Software
Posted by Tom Dolan at September 6, 2006 11:46 AM
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