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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Maybe with the introduction of the interview Andy should have asked "What were you programming at age 6, and then maybe age 8 12, etc ?"
It would have been interesting to see the progression of his programming talents and how they developed, without sounding like a CV/resume.
You forgot to ask about BeOS and what he thought about its direction as a modern OS. Don't say it is dead people, or else I'll say, "I didn't know my computer could do that!" I just had to sneak that in.
Also ask him what "Goodware" he has contributed to Opensourceware or Closedsourceware.
Obviously I could tell from the interview that the discussion about the OS his working on will remain a secret, it is probably a hobby of his to keep up with programming skills and to try out ideas that would not be allowed in a production OS.