20% coding is very sad. I hate to think how many great minds are being wasted this way. After starting work at a startup, I feel more fulfilled in my daily life. I can easily say I spend around 80-90% of my time coding…
I agree. This article is a case for an alt-economy more than giving evidence of the decline of Silicon Valley.
Don't build rocket fuel in your house.
Haskell is fantastic. In fact, it is by far my favorite language. Strict types and functional programming come together in a perfect union. Monads are very similar to JavaScript callbacks, actually. After extensive use…
Yes, I agree they are helping people. But who are they helping? They don't seem to be helping the little people like that Tanzanian hospital the way the developers did who found a free software solution. It seems we…
In my CS education, very very little of what I learned was directly applicable to the outside world. My school did not offer classes teaching languages and frameworks. That was left up to us in our free time. Much of…
Glad to see ZFS adoption increasing. It is such a great filesystem and is one of the main reasons my home servers run FreeBSD.
20% coding is very sad. I hate to think how many great minds are being wasted this way. After starting work at a startup, I feel more fulfilled in my daily life. I can easily say I spend around 80-90% of my time coding…
I agree. This article is a case for an alt-economy more than giving evidence of the decline of Silicon Valley.
Don't build rocket fuel in your house.
Haskell is fantastic. In fact, it is by far my favorite language. Strict types and functional programming come together in a perfect union. Monads are very similar to JavaScript callbacks, actually. After extensive use…
Yes, I agree they are helping people. But who are they helping? They don't seem to be helping the little people like that Tanzanian hospital the way the developers did who found a free software solution. It seems we…
In my CS education, very very little of what I learned was directly applicable to the outside world. My school did not offer classes teaching languages and frameworks. That was left up to us in our free time. Much of…
Glad to see ZFS adoption increasing. It is such a great filesystem and is one of the main reasons my home servers run FreeBSD.