What is amazing here is not the techy stuff, but productivity and clear understanding of concepts. Of course, such shape (of mind) comes from years of daily practice. That's why I know I will never write anything good - I didn't spend enough time practicing. Practice leads to perfection (not reading HN).
And look, the guy is not using any IDE or proprietary tools - just a terminal window and command line (what a horror!) tools. Looks like they are good enough..)
All that 9-to-5 Java coders should at least commit suicide.) More seriously - this is very clear illustration for startup founders of what a huge gap lies between mediocre and a top performer.
Convincing a top performer(s) to work for you is the real secret of a successful startup. Even pg (god forbid!) could be not so successful without rtm.))
It depends on what you are used to. I started programming in the 1980s and the first editor I used was pretty much like EDLIN (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edlin)---think of an unholy cross between the Unix commands cat and vi (line based and modal).
And, except for code completion, there isn't anything an IDE can do that can't be done via the command line (just not as conveniently). Then again, I don't program in Java.
And look, the guy is not using any IDE or proprietary tools - just a terminal window and command line (what a horror!) tools. Looks like they are good enough..)
All that 9-to-5 Java coders should at least commit suicide.) More seriously - this is very clear illustration for startup founders of what a huge gap lies between mediocre and a top performer.
Convincing a top performer(s) to work for you is the real secret of a successful startup. Even pg (god forbid!) could be not so successful without rtm.))