"Over the last 6 years, I've come to believe deeply in the idea that that becoming a great programmer has very little to do with programming. Yes, it takes a modicum of technical skill and dogged persistence, absolutely. But even more than that, it takes serious communication skills: " .. and so you and joel decided to re-invent usenet really badly throwing away all the things that were learnt by hundreds of people about how client interfaces should operate in such environments.