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Can anyone shed some light on who the author is?

I thought the same thing. Who is this guy and why haven't I heard of him before.

My initial research...

Started with his email read@hire.com. From there I went to hire.com which forwards on to Authoria. Apparently Authoria bought Hire.com in 2005.

After a little bit of googling I found an article that was published on him shortly after his orignal "how to be a programmer" article was published.

http://www.theage.com.au/cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl...

Robert Read, 37, of Austin, Texas, is a principal engineer at Hire.com. Before that he founded 4R Technology, which made a scanner-based image analysis quality control tool for the paper industry.

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