Talk:David Heinemeier Hansson

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[edit] Age?

How old is he? --204.52.215.1 20:39, 4 March 2006 (UTC) http://www.loudthinking.com/about.html Born in october 1979.

danembraceddc Found his exact birthday (Oct 15, 1979), and added it to the page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Danembraceddc (talk • contribs) 07:38, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Opinions?

If we allow "widely considered to be arrogant" do we have to add "widely considered to be humble" to every profile for humble people? Is it relevant at all?

-- Response to above - we shouldn't say that he is arrogant without a reference, because this is an encyclopedia; but as most programmers know (notice how I'm not putting this in the article) Hansson is a jack ass. So it is a genuine part of his personality. This is a biography page so it should describe him. Leaving no reference to his real personality is like having an article on Einstein without ever saying that he's smart. So I see no reason why if someone could find some reference that it shouldn't be included. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.41.144.77 (talk) 14:20, August 30, 2007 (UTC)

Removed it. If someone wants to say who considers him arrogant and why, that would be worth keeping.

Mark Pilgrim thinks so Shabda 08:19, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

Consider the eyewitness testimony of Tim Bray, one of the fathers of XML, who saw DHH speak, and personally admit to being arrogant before jovially insulting the audience: [1] 70.177.56.182 20:14, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

"eyewitness testimony"? You should read what Tim Bray actually says: "David Heinemeier Hansson is rude and arrogant. At least that’s what he claimed in his keynote... Only having conversed with David once, for about thirty seconds, I have no personal opinion as to whether he’s just putting it on for effect." Chrisahn 01:29, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

"For 2007 he predicted that 'the disgrace of being a web programmer still using Windows will increase'." is ok, and is cited but the following sentance "This statement didn't win him many friends." seems a bit opinionated and inappropriate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Danembraceddc (talk • contribs) 07:32, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

do we have a better picture of him?

Does anybody know what he studied at the CBS? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.76.19.17 (talk) 10:49, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

David received a "Bsc in Business Administration and Computer Science", also referred to as the "HA(dat) program". Program description at http://uk.cbs.dk/uddannelser/bachelor/bacheloruddannelser/ha_dat —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.226.45.152 (talk) 09:26, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

... and I just added it to the article. Not sure if I did it wiki style. If a source is needed, I dug up this post from his blog where he admits it himself: http://web.archive.org/web/20040806025047/www.loudthinking.com/arc/000242.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.226.45.152 (talk) 09:41, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

He also said in an interview in 2006: Just as Fox should have let The X-Files end with dignity around season 7, so should programmers let Java retire from the spotlight of web applications in dignity., [2].

[edit] Dead link

I can't access the link in the page: http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000489.html , does somebody has an updated link? I have removed that link as it is dead. Shabda 12:58, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

And do we really need all those links? Shabda 12:58, 27 July 2007 (UTC)