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Read "I, Pencil" by Leonard Reed sometime. Its available online for free.

http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/rdPncl1.html

Then give some thought to how the invisible hand is really doing your point 3 on such a massive scale across all of society that it enables not only points 1 and 2, but also just about everything else anyone might think is worth working on.

Its not a stretch really. Its a natural by-product of people having freedom to choose and pay for the things that are most important to them. If that's what's most important to you then that's great. But that doesn't mean nothing else is worth working on.

Perhaps folks are tired of sending the typical astronaut to space on some government mission on their dime, and are ready to go themselves. If commercial space flight catches hold and the price comes down, my guess is people will get interested again real quick as it becomes a realistic candidate for the old "bucket list".

Not sure about Steve Russell, but I agree that is rather extraordinary.

1. because I seem avoid so much code that I could see myself having to write in other languages, and

2. because it gives me all this great dynamic functionality while still being extremely fast, especially compared to other languages.

Once I realized all the crazy things you can do with it and still run fast its been difficult to imagine using anything else where I have a choice.

Anyone else find this comment motivating? It kind of sums up a moment of reflection I guess I somehow aspire to. Find an insanely difficult challenge, that you deem important enough to devote a significant amount of time and energy to, and then one day: "It turns out you could do it: I programmed it for the ${preferred architecture}." Thanks Doug^H^H^H^H hold on - didn't Steve Russell implement McCarthy's original Lisp on the IBM 704 - not Doug McIlroy. What am I missing that pulled me away from my moment of zen here?

"stuckk.net is a blog by Andrew Wansley and Joe Huston. We are contractually required to post 750 words a week."

Anyone ever see that on a blog before?

Perhaps you're just assuming the worst...

Also, the simplest way to not look like you're hitting on her is to go with a group. If you have other really smart, into computers, funny, etc. etc. people who enjoy beers, why not get some of them together anyway, and then ask if she wants to come join you. Even if she says no, you still get to suck down your $20 beers and talk hacker stuffs.

What would be great is, since as you did say she's a smart programmer, if she also reads HN and actually has a chance to give her side of the story on this. Sounds like it would be a fairly unique situation for her to identify. That would be so priceless...

  Thanks for the info.
  More metadata sounds nice.
  I'll go check it out.

  In Haiku OS,
  Do the docs look like these posts?
  Or are they normal?

  This is bullshit man.
  I refuse to write haikus.
  And you can't make me.

Zed writes reasonably well and captured aspects of the experience that I find intriguing, so I found the entry worthwhile.

I hope he continues to write about his move, and personally don't mind at all if additional entries get posted here for discussion in the future.

The terms are pretty clear. Better to pay it if your using it and charging for it up front rather than try to get clever and get caught later and potentially have legal fees to pay on top of it IMHO.

Plus, I think you're perhaps misunderstanding where his company is coming from. They're not necessarily looking for computer scientists to write code or design new systems in most cases. Instead, they're looking for information systems specialists to be able to quickly and efficiently solve IT issues for their customer, and managers of those specialists to ensure they do it as efficiently as possible.