Interview with the Creator of BitTorrent

brokencomputer writes "There is an interesting interview with Bram Cohen, the creator of BitTorrent, on my site, WrongPlanet.net. Because there is already a plethora of information about BitTorrent, this interview takes a different approach and focuses entirely on Cohen's Asperger's Syndrome. In addition to being interesting to anyone interested in BitTorrent, Cohen's story is extremely inspirational to those of us who do have Asperger's, and will probably be so even to those without Asperger's Syndrome."

Question...

[Bob Cat - NYMPHS]

What do you...

(rest available from the torrent)

Hooray!

[kryogen1x]

From TFA:

WP: How was life at school?

BC: I hated school, and dropped out of college. I got picked on a lot in school, and had a lot of trouble making friends.

Rejoice Slashdotters, we still have hope!

PLEASE NOTE,

[King_of_Prussia]

the corrent pronounciation of Asberger's is "Ass-burgers".

Cue OSS zealots...

[Anonymous Coward]

Why have ASPberger's, when you can have PHPberger's, or SQLberger's?

Re:How does it feel to know

[Anonymous Coward]

Listen pal, nobody forced you to make Gigli. If you spend all your time making massive steaming piles of excrement you shouldn't lament your fate when nobody buys them.

After all, you got paid to do work of little or no value. Consider yourself lucky, people who want to create things of value have been having trouble finding work going on 5 years now.

Hey!

[Anonymous Coward]

While reading an article entitled "The BitTorrent Effect"

They stole our effect!

Re:Hooray!

[Dante Shamest]

Rejoice Slashdotters, we still have hope!

No, this man actually got laid.

Quote from the BBC

[Namarrgon]

From the BBC article, Einstein and Newton 'had autism' [bbc.co.uk]:

"What most people with Asperger's Syndrome find difficult is casual chatting - they can't do small talk."

So, that includes most geeks, but not those who hang about posting on /., yes?

Re:Hooray!

[Sebadude]

No, this man actually got laid.

Oh. False alarm then.

Re:Pattern recognition

[Nate Fox]

thats cool! take him to vegas, see if he notices anything

Re:Cohen doesn't have Asperger's

[learn fast]

I was going to read your post but then couldn't finish on account of my ADHD.

Re:Quote from the BBC

[Anonymous Coward]

I sat here for 5 minutes trying to decide if I should reply to your comment or not.

So what did you decide?

What about the amateur radio guys?

[3770]

What about the amateur radio guys? The HAMbergers?

Re:A great book

[numbware]

I'd have to recommend that book too. I had to read it for my English class and was probably my favorite book that the class read. But I must say, I DID get in trouble for cracking up when my teacher said Asperger's syndrome for the first time. There was just something funny about a 50-something year old woman who always spoke in upright, proper English to be saying anything that sounded like "assburger."

one of my co-workers

[SQLz]

Has this problem. He is a really good programmer but he shits and pisses all over the bathroom and then leaves it there like noone will know its him. A VP had to send out a company wide email basically saying that if you shit and piss all over the bathroom to please clean up after yourself.

learning disablitiy shmearning disability

[selfdiscipline]

I was diagnosed with a learning disability. I, in turn, diagnosed the U.S. education system with a teaching disability.

Re:More info

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, but Bram Cohen puts out better movies.

Wait, you mean the movies on bittorrent aren't his?

Wow...

[sH4RD]

I think we all have Asperger's...

Obessions often including computers: Check
Lack of the ability to learn social skills: Check
Failure in school because we like to hate the grade system: Check
Mostly in males: Check

So where are my nerd curing pills?

Re:All kidding aside...

[B3ryllium]

Oh, like Ken Jennings?

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Re:Hooray!

[dabigpaybackski]

No, this man actually got laid.

And the rest of us use his app to download porn with. It's the sort of situation for which the word "tragicomic" was coined.

I find it hypocritical...

[ObiWonKanblomi]

...that those who are claiming to have this Asperger's syndrome and trying to defend the reality of it have been making quite long posts.

Re:one of my co-workers

[birge]

You're only an insensitive jerk if the mystery shitter were within earshot. Otherwise, it's just private enjoyment of your thoughts.

Reminds me of the time everybody in my college dorm found a turd in the toilet that looked like it had to kill the guy who birthed it. It was spherical, green and literally the size of a grape fruit. Obviously, it wouldn't flush. So it sort of became like the dorm pet. Everybody thought it was really funny except the gay vegetarian on the hall, who was conspicuous in his lack of humor about it.

Re:Aspergers == geek?

[sedyn]

Your explaination made me see a Venn diagram in my head. Which I think is a good thing... I think...

Re:Hooray!

[Meagermanx]

Okay, here's how I break it down: Women = 51% men = 49% Men = 10% gay. Women = 1% gay. Are you with me? We're winning, guys! Now, if just a few more of you guys take one for the team and become gay, come out of the closet, or die in an unnecessary war or two, we can get a big enough population difference for every straight guy to have at least two chicks each, as long as no one's hogging. But wait, what about the lesbians? Won't the women turn to each other for emotional and sexual comfort?? It's a man's world, right? We make the rules, right? So we invoke a new national law: No unsupervised lesbianism. This is one of those things where if we all come together, as a gender, we can all succeed. The gay guys get more potential partners, the straight guys get more chicks! Everybody wins!

Re:Hey!

[mibus]

They stole our effect!

It wasn't so much "stealing" as it was "infringing"...

Re:Hooray!

[grammar fascist]

..or die in an unnecessary war or two...

Isaiah is WAY ahead of you:

Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war. And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground. And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach [childlessness].

As always, your vision, compared to God's, is pitiful and short-sighted. :D

Re:Cohen might. Who are you to say?

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't wear a sign and advertise myself to the world one way or another.

Except for the high IQ part, you have no problems advertising that!

Re:A great book

[VivianC]

Yes, I second that. This is a very good book. Available as an audiobook too, for listening during the commute to work (which is how I "read" the book).

Cool. is it available on BitTorrent somewhere?