I was thinking if it is too early to tell that we are having a closer cooperation with David, who will be situated in my castle, but then I realized that he has already disclosed it in his CV, so it is definitely OK.
I was thinking if it is too modest of a resume, telling only about English and Office skills, but then I realized that I also don't have much more to put on my resume, which I don't even have, and neither does the critic, so it is definitely OK.
Risto with all due respect, you completely misunderstand my experience and why it matters.
Those who've walked in my shoes know of what I speak. The rest won't probably understand the distinction.
I want to emphasize to you that there is a huge difference between the prolific coders with a record of repeated success, and those who worked as managers, bean counters, water cooler hangout specialists, public speakers, etc..
You can be easily fooled (or lulled to sleep) because you can be sold on what you can relate well to.
Since 1983 when I was 17 years old, I have been developing commercially successful client software. Each time I was the first to do something that spread around the world. I did WordUp in the mid-1980s which was one of the first WYSIWYG full featured word processors in the world. This predated Ventura Publisher (which had many more features) and followed MacWrite (which was less featured). I was right in there launching the desktop publishing revolution that changed the world. I wrote TurboJet which was the first printer driver that leverage the RLE encoding to make printing with laser printers for multiple fonts fast.
I have been in the trenches developing 30,000+ lines of code client software wherein I was the sole developer or one of the key developers on a small team.
What you don't realize because you are not a programmer, is that there is a chasm difference between the guys who do that fluffy stuff on his CV and the guys who've proven themselves in the trenches.
That doesn't mean he can't do. Just that I don't see evidence of it yet.
So I read his role is not the trenches developer and perhaps that is smooth, fluffypony, or TacoTime. I wish I could read more about their backgrounds? I have seen some technical posts about Scrypt from Tacotime long ago. So I was aware his has some programming skills.
I am aware that smooth has very astute logic. So he appears to be a trenches programmer in the way he discusses design concepts with me.
Too many cooks spoil the pot, e.g. smooth was vetoed on the perpetual debasement. Design-by-commitee can't compete with design-by-one.
Also I am aware dga has a masters (and PhD?) in computer science and he did the work on improving the PoW code. He seems fairly knowledgeable (probably highly knowledgeable in his areas of study), but again I don't know if he has been in the trenches developing commercially successful client software. And in my case, successfully marketing these too.
I've resisted your gracious offers for me to come develop at your castle, because:
1. It would waste precious time. We would talk too much. Coders need to talk less and be locked in a cave most of the time.
2. I feel you don't value of secrecy. You believe the best is to develop and be open in all aspects.
3. I feel my ideas would be taken by others and the result would thus not come to fruition, because all the focus that would come from being first would be diluted.
4. All my greatest coding successes came when I was in the Philippines. When I was in the USA, I talked or partied too much. Here is there is really not much to do, other than chase girls, eat fruit, or be on the computer.
