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by viraptor 2901 days ago
Authenticity, sure. Humility - not after his approach to the students issue in recent years where he was more interested in being correct then helping people :-(
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I was talking to another person in the community, now this was well over a decade ago, maybe two, with the initials "DJB". He said: "I went onto IRC once. I was mistaken for Daniel Bernstein. It was the most awful 15 minutes of my life."

I spoke to another fairly famous person a few years later, let's say author of the authoritative book on one of the alternatives for one of djb's software packages. He said something along the lines of: It's a shame djb gets along so poorly with other people, because he has a lot of good ideas.

So, agreed: Authenticity but not humility.

What is " the students issue "?
I don't want to add more bias from my side, so I'll just point you at https://twitter.com/hashbreaker/status/845057003642933248 https://twitter.com/hashbreaker/status/845072847705919488 as starting points. You can google a few articles, discussions via the names involved.
"...where he was more interested in being correct then helping people"

That does describe him pretty well.