Here are a few earlier discussions of this email:<p><pre><code>  Curse Of The Gifted (2000) 606 points  
  luu  2 years ago  365 comments  </code></pre>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7219872" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7219872</a><p><pre><code>  Eric S. Raymond - The Curse of the Gifted (2000) 243 points
  vinutheraj  6 years ago  59 comments  </code></pre>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=1167754" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=1167754</a><p><pre><code>  The curse of the gifted programmer (ESR&#x27;s email to Torvalds) 95 points
  semmons  6 years ago  38 comments  </code></pre>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=1221756" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=1221756</a><p>It&#x27;s interesting to compare the quality of discussion over the years.  In this case, I think the more recent ones come out looking pretty good.