On: Notch live coding 0x10c

[Ralith]

> if you'd have a job that Notch is willing to take and you are not hiring him into that role then it's practically a factual statement that your hiring process is broken

Why do you say that? Do you think Notch's success is a result of him being an exceptionally competent programmer?

[xal → Ralith]

Creativity, resourcefulness and grit are the three main virtues of the best programmers in the world. He may be a 10/10 on all three which is just about unheard of.

[coopdog → Ralith]

There's no point in code that doesn't do anything for anyone

Notch has proven he's able to program fun games, and his programming styles is pretty well tailored to that

Who's to say if the goal changed he wouldn't change his style too