My biggest gripe with all of this is that there is no money in low-level or systems innovation. To be clear, there is some money, but it's reserved for those wh

My biggest gripe with all of this is that there is no money in low-level or systems innovation. To be clear, there is some money, but it's reserved for those who are either PhD's, well known developers, or those with a long list of established OSS report (e.g. kernel hackers). I hate (see: despise, lament, loathe) doing anything web-related, but the last 7 years of my career have been dist-sys positions and backend development simply because there is an extreme shortage of companies doing desktop software in languages I find interesting. It's annoying how much Web has prevailed and it's certainly made me feel similarly to Blow in that regard.