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This is so true tho
Here's to all the Ronalds and Daniels out there.
Thanks.
:)
On top of it all, Steve Jobs wasn't even in tech. He was in sales.
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My go to real example is curl
Christopher's Universal Request Library
In case anyone thinks you're serious, that's not what it stands for.
Yeah, its just Chris, dude HATES when people call him Christopher.
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Ronald is indescribably more important than any tech billionaire could ever hope to be. So let's raise a glass and give out a hardy thank you to all the Ronalds of the world!
Too bad all the tech billionaires profit from Ronald's work while he does it for free.
Ronald should have used a copyleft licence.
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They are real people
XZ Utils (maintained single-handedly by Lasse Collin) is widely regarded as the most critical infrastructure library run by one person. Its near-catastrophic compromise in 2024 revealed how global digital security hinges on solo, thanklessly managed open-source projects. Other major examples include cURL (Daniel Stenberg) and SQLite (D. Richard Hipp)
When I last talked to Richard he had company to work on SQLite. It was like four people.
SQLite is still deployed on everything, everywhere. You browser. Your phone. Macs. Half of Linux machine. Your airplane. It's super impressive.
Also interesting is that it's one of the small number of unquestionably public domain pieces of software. Not open source, but public domain. It's not entirely clear if you can technically put your own work in the public domain, or if you're just freely licensing it to anyone.
Sqlite was initially developed for the US military though, which explicitly makes it public domain.
It doesn't matter, but it's interesting.
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Other major examples include cURL (Daniel Stenberg) and SQLite (D. Richard Hipp)
While those are the main developers neither is alone in maintaining their respective software.
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Also extremely stable.
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By gods, the interactive one is great!
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Bless Ronald
Our math depends on him 🙏
Written in hand-optimized assembly with individual implementation for every CPU on the planet, with integer division function in 10000 lines of code impelented with XOR and bit-shifting which is somehow 0.3% faster than CPU built-in division operation.
He had to de-optimize the init sequence because the little trick he added that caused the init sequence to return a little power to the grid instead of taking it was causing grid stability issues because the returned power from offices starting up was a bit higher than the extra power required for factory startup weekday mornings.
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Not sure if it's part of the joke but that word means "jerk" (as in "jerk off") in Swedish.
So a perfect open source name then.
Runk that hog, swedish boy.
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This is why when Steve Jobs died in 2011 another far more important figure died... Dennis Ritchie. The man who made the C programming language and Unix, without which nothing Apple produced would be possible.
Not to downplay dmr's importance here because he quite literally is the father of modern computing, but without him we'd just have something else and perhaps it would've been a bit later. A different systems programming language and a different operating system everything else is modeled after. High-level programming languages weren't a new concept when he wrote C. Before B they already had Fortran. Funny to call any of those High-level in 2026, but that's the whole importance of C, isn't it? It made writing complex systems easy compared to assembly languages or even fortran.
I'm not gonna bother doing a writeup about Jobs, we all here know he made precisely Jack shit.
Not necessarily against what you said, but I realized you can kinda say that about anything, with some abstraction. There’s always smart people (thankfully), and they’ll often arrive at the same solutions. Roll over, Gauss.
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Everyone who understands Norwegian love the name Ronald chose for his invaluable tool.
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Ah. He must be a KDE contributor as well.
Kontributor
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handles all math on every machine on earth
That's just gmp. The go-to unlimited precision arithmetic library.
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