= Epic Stack Overflow users
{tag=Cool person}
These are some users <Ciro Santilli> particularly respects, mostly due to their contributions to <systems programming> subjects:
* https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/885/gilles-so-stop-being-evil
* https://stackoverflow.com/users/379897/r-github-stop-helping-icea
* https://stackoverflow.com/users/196561/osgx
* https://stackoverflow.com/users/50617/employed-russian Employed Russian. Binutils, ELF, GDB, claims to work at <Google>. The only <Russian> sounding name on GDB and Binutils git log is that of Paul Pluzhnikov: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-pluzhnikov-61b9676/ and Employed Russian mentions one of his commits at: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3718072/gdb-takes-too-long-and-ctrl-c-has-no-effect Ex physicist: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Paul_Pluzhnikov
Ciro also really likes the following users, a bit less like Gods, and bit more like friends:
* partly because they were close by on the yearly reputation charts for a long time circa 2020, so it feels like they also focus on <Ciro Santilli's Stack Overflow contributions>[replying to important questions rather than answering new duplicates immediately]:
* https://stackoverflow.com/users/642706/basil-bourque[]: GCC dev, but started replying lots of <Java> questions as of 2021 it seems for some reason
* https://stackoverflow.com/users/541136/aaron-hall[]: <Python>, <NixOS> and <Haskell> more and more it seems. Also pro freedom of speech, gotta love those https://twitter.com/aaronchall[religious liberal Republicans]. Reminds Ciro of <Ron Maimon> very slightly, maybe it's just the New Yorkedneess. Ciro once met another intelligent dude who liked both Haskell and NixOS, there must be some correlation.
* https://stackoverflow.com/users/6309/vonc[VonC]: Git God, VonC is just Super nice, gives clear credit to others, always positive interactions. Love this dude. Twitter: https://twitter.com/VonC_[]. He was the one that <Ciro Santilli's Stack Overflow contributions>[held the Necromancer record in 2019 before Ciro took it].
* https://stackoverflow.com/users/224132/peter-cordes[Peter Cordes]. An <assembly> maniac this one. And a really nice one too. Sometimes pedantic, but always nice, and always correct. He's been going into God level more and more it must be said:
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15070244
Other interesting people:
* https://stackoverflow.com/users/560648/lightness-races-in-orbit Lightness Races in Orbit. C++ God. Interesting aesthetics. Real name: Tom Lachecki, <British>, as per:
* https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://stackoverflow.com/users/560648/*
* https://twitter.com/tomalakgeretkal
* https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-lachecki-a1314a3/
* https://www.kera.name/
As of 2023 marked "retired" from Stack Overflow, rep graph suggests since 2020.
* https://stackoverflow.com/users/3681880/suragch the number 3 necromancer dude. But then in 2022 he found <God> and mostly quit: https://suragch.medium.com/programming-was-my-god-89b625164a69