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Sigh. Anyone else feeling like we're all screwing around writing web frameworks when we should be focusing on things that are sort of more important?
by s3graham 18y ago
Sigh. Anyone else feeling like we're all screwing around writing web frameworks when we should be focusing on things that are sort of more important?
- kirse 18y agoNo, because my strengths are in web software development and one of my weaknesses happens to be predicting and extrapolating the effects of insanely large and complex systems over several decades (like the Earth and its weather). Web software dev - urgent and important Glacier moving at 1" per year - sorry, I'm filing this one under important but not urgent.
- s3graham 18y ago"urgent and important": Really? I think the urgency is largely self-imposed, and important to whom? I don't think we should all spend our time modeling global warming, but we could at least be solving hard software problems for, say, http://www.betterplace.com/ http://www.betterplace.com/ or http://www.teslamotors.com/ http://www.teslamotors.com/.
- lutorm 18y agoyeah. and I don't feel like I would be any worse at doing climate change stuff than programming...
- revorad 18y agoIf you want to help directly, one good way would be to help write and improve existing climate models. Perhaps start at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_model#Climate_models_on_the_web http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_model#Climate_models_on...