Linked by Andy Tars on Fri 25th Apr 2003 17:06 UTC
João Paredes is an almost-21-year-old student of Electrotecnical and Computers Engeneering at Oporto's State University for Engeneering (Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto), in Portugal. He is well known and respected in his community, known to be a visonary and a good leader. Also known to be an excelent programmer, as he's been programming computers for 16 years now (yes, since he was 5).
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He is a person, like you and me. Does he have to be a president of a country to get interviewed?
. Seriously, i love this site. But with the "why linux is not ready x, y and z" and "what linux needs to do to ____" articles that turn up at the rate of 5 per week.. and then this POS. What are we to do? Typically sites and other publications listen to their readership and try to change where appropriate instead of calling them names.
This interview was done as a part of a study in a university and the author was kind enough to reprint it here.
If you don't like it, don't read it. Being a$$hol3s about it won't change a thing.
No he doesn't have to be the president of a country to get interviewed, but jeez.. at least have something of recognition. Hell, at least let us KNOW what he's done that we would recognise instead of this elitest shit. "He's been programming since he was 5", and "He's well known in his circles". C'mon. The dude in the next cube who codes VB can say those things. Otherwise, why wouldn't you just interview a bum off the street (or the VB dude in the next cube). He is a person too after all. And no one was being an asshole except for you. We're supposed to discuss and give opinions, yet when we do, we get chastised and called assholes. That was my honest to god opinion. I *SHOULD* have skipped the article. I was pretty blunt yes, but hey.. my apparent ineptitude and this being a comment place allows me to say such things.
And if i'm being an asshole, then you're being a bitch in your responses to readers and you should stop that also. Don't hate the playa, hate the game