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Comment there are no true "Rock Stars" (Score 1) 356

As far as the definition you are referring to, "Rock Stars" are people that can solve all level 10 problems. Every competent developer can solve at least 1 level 10 problem, but no one can solve all. Everyone is better at something, i.e., everyone has had experience in something that someone else has not had experience in.

On the other hand, if you define the makers of Twitter or Facebook as Rock Stars, any average developer could have easily coded the beginning of those. It was the creativity that launched them to where they are now -- and with Facebook, the ability to be more competent than MySpace (which doesn't take much effort). Einstein was a genius for his creativity, not because he could solve level-10 math problems in 2 seconds.

Comment Re:Wow! Wrong! (Score 3, Insightful) 222

That's a philosophical question. When I go to facebook via my web browser, facebook is not the software. My web browser is the software. When I view the page, the web browser displays the HTML/CSS appropriately while running the JS. However, facebook's server does send me this data, and I indirectly use the server's database. If I always use an open source web browser and then I go to a proprietary site, does it nullify it? But, of course, you are providing money to the proprietary sites either via advertising or actual money.

Also, although facebook may not be open source, they have contributed to things like Memcached and have created Hiphop for PHP and use Linux servers. Linux servers are also more dominant in the market place.

This is also a very variable statistic. They may decide to switch servers (Linux/BSD vs MS/Apple). They may decide to switch programming languages/frameworks/libraries (RoR/PHP vs C#/ASP). They may decide to switch maps (Google vs Bing). How many sites use NodeJS or AngularJS or use Google Maps?

I think because this statistic is too hard to track that it should be left out for now.

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