Guiding behaviour like this is the mark of a great developer, but what makes Battlefield brilliant is in how this setup leads to endless one-off situations and emergent battles.
There is a tangible difference between a good developer and a great developer.
"A great developer, a great creative person is a difficult thing to find," he said.
"We have O'Reilly authors and top users on Stack Overflow, so the world-class experts do charge a higher rate and they deserve it," says Liu. "But we also enable a long tail of developers who are great developers in their own right, but not as well-known, to charge a fair rate".
You are surrounded by other great developers and it's relatively easy for potential employers to do a solid reference check on you," says Liu. "But for people who are not as lucky, maybe they aren't in Silicon Valley, we are enabling great developers in Russia, Madison, Wisconsin, Vancouver or Alberta or in Taiwan, to have a platform for them to earn their reputation fairly and transparently".
Trump received big applause for his expressions of solidarity with Cuban-Americans, and even cracked a joke that he'd oversee their victory over Communism as either "the greatest developer in the country or the greatest President you've had in a long time".
There's a lot of great developer talent in the greater Los Angeles area, but I think one the reasons why you don't hear as much about startups coming out of universities here compared to places such as Silicon Valley or New York is because the universities aren't as concentrated in the same area.
Since Git encourages granular recording of changes, programmers, be they absolute beginners or experts, can trace the steps of some of the greatest developers in the world and find out how they solved thorny problems.
As Charles McGrath wrote a few weeks ago in his cover story for the magazine, "Caro has spent virtually his whole adult life studying power and what can be done with it, first in the case of Robert Moses, the great developer and urban planner, and then in the case of Lyndon Johnson, whose biography he has been writing for close to 40 years".
And yet Caro has spent virtually his whole adult life studying power and what can be done with it, first in the case of Robert Moses, the great developer and urban planner, and then in the case of Lyndon Johnson, whose biography he has been writing for close to 40 years.
