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The low hanging fruit has been taken. Years ago, a curious individual could solve some basic problem, maybe its a better file system, or a better kernel, or a
by asciimov 4y ago
The low hanging fruit has been taken.
Years ago, a curious individual could solve some basic problem, maybe its a better file system, or a better kernel, or a new scripting language. Your program might take off, and you could build eventually find an entire industry around the problem you tackled.
Today, that's unlikely to happen. Gone are the days of some people hacking in their room creating a solution to some problem. Most of the "low hanging" fruit is now in very niche areas, you will have to do some extensive study just to understand the problem well enough to approach it.
- Viliam1234 4y agoMost problems are already solved, but unfortunately, in this context "solved" does not mean "you do not have to worry about it anymore". Instead it means "here are three or five industry-standard solutions, each of them working differently, each of them bringing different problems, you need to study how to use them, but some of the important things you will only learn from experience; by the way, five years later most of this will be obsolete". The application you are making is built on ten or twenty "solutions" of this kind.