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by retro 5959 days ago
What is Tim Bray known for? (please excuse my ignorance)
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mrduncan 5959 days ago
He was the director of web technologies at Sun, he's also worked on the XML and Atom standards.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Bray

According to his website, he is also a member of the Technorati advisory board and a friend of the company, a former advisor and friend of Make Technologies, and a friend of Smallthought Systems; I have an equity interest in all three companies.

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/misc/Tim

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megaduck 5959 days ago
He's also got an amazing series on his blog about concurrent programming languages, called Concur.next. If you're a language and tooling geek, it's pure gold.

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2009/09/27/Concur-dot...

Mr. Bray is also notable for having one of the most amazing and intelligent 'comments' sections I've ever seen on a blog. Good reading.

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Nwallins 5959 days ago
I would say mainly being an author of the XML specs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Bray

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pasbesoin 5958 days ago
Intelligence, honesty, curiosity, humanity, and getting things done. :-)
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