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_akei on Nov 21, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Developer Roadmaps

The best people in every field are people who are focused on one aspect and one aspect only. Linus Torvalds only focus on C programming and kernels. If you judge him based on these lists, he will be regarded incompetent because he can't do UI and is proud of it. He doesn't even try to learn the basics about it because he has his speciality and do it very well.

Lionel Messi doesn't try to be the best header or best defensive midfielder. He focuses on dribbling and scoring goals.

realityking on Nov 24, 2019 [–]

Linus Trovalds didn't just create a kernel but also a version control system and even a scuba diving planning tool (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsurface_(software)).

In the latter, he also touched some GTK code: https://github.com/torvalds/subsurface-for-dirk/commit/c0adf...

Trovalds has much more breadth than you give him credit for.

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