Yes, I remember a huge case on the news where a company named Hooli went after the founder of a company named Pied Piper - it turned out that the founder of Pied Piper, Richard Hendricks, had to take his laptop in for…
If you wrote a new library, what would you put in it? What is the point of writing a new library that contains functions that already exist in other libraries? I'm not saying industry doesn't conceptualize unmet needs.…
What is intellectually interesting about just copying and pasting code from a library? I think we can all agree that it is significantly (orders of magnitude) less interesting than solving abstract math problems.
Software development is not interesting - you don't have to come up with any novel ideas, or be creative in your problem solving, especially with the existence of large libraries that already exist that can perform any…
Although this article makes a good point, it doesn't offer any practical suggestions for how to avoid the issue entirely.
It's so sad that most jobs are not interesting. The only thing that is actually interesting is theoretical math, and there are no jobs in industry that require that - all of the interesting jobs are in academia, and the…
Yes, I remember a huge case on the news where a company named Hooli went after the founder of a company named Pied Piper - it turned out that the founder of Pied Piper, Richard Hendricks, had to take his laptop in for…
If you wrote a new library, what would you put in it? What is the point of writing a new library that contains functions that already exist in other libraries? I'm not saying industry doesn't conceptualize unmet needs.…
What is intellectually interesting about just copying and pasting code from a library? I think we can all agree that it is significantly (orders of magnitude) less interesting than solving abstract math problems.
Software development is not interesting - you don't have to come up with any novel ideas, or be creative in your problem solving, especially with the existence of large libraries that already exist that can perform any…
Although this article makes a good point, it doesn't offer any practical suggestions for how to avoid the issue entirely.
It's so sad that most jobs are not interesting. The only thing that is actually interesting is theoretical math, and there are no jobs in industry that require that - all of the interesting jobs are in academia, and the…