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A good example of how driven individual can have a positive impact in a domain (with help from all other contributors too of course)
by bbbbzzz1 4y ago
A good example of how driven individual can have a positive impact in a domain (with help from all other contributors too of course)
- benatkin 4y agoI wasn't sure what "driven" meant despite hearing it all the time, so I looked in the dictionary: "Someone who is driven is so determined to achieve something or be successful that all of their behavior is directed toward this aim" That fits with this early part of the article: "The concept behind curl development has always been to gradually and iteratively improve all aspects of it. Keep behavior, but enhance the code, add test cases, improve the documentation. Over and over, year after year. It never stops. As the timeline below helps showing. Similarly, there was no sudden specific moment when suddenly curl became popular and the number of users skyrocketed. Instead, the number of users and the popularity of the tool and library has gradually and continuously grown. In 1998 there were few users. By 2010 there were hundreds of millions." That very much typifies "driven". However, there is this at the end of his about page at https://daniel.haxx.se/about.html https://daniel.haxx.se/about.html ## Future I never plan never far ahead. LOL!!!
- filleokus 4y agoI agree, and think its quite fitting that Daniel Stenberg received a price from the Swedish king (or really from a Swedish engineering association) a couple a years ago: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2017/10/20/my-night-at-the-museum https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2017/10/20/my-night-at-the-museu... Good to see someone who had such a positive influence get recognised outside of our bubble