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eh.. in my experience those who always spent time sharpen their knifes barely create anything useful, even code looks mediocre because they only want to play so
by Existenceblinks 4y ago
eh.. in my experience those who always spent time sharpen their knifes barely create anything useful, even code looks mediocre because they only want to play so what they write against are likely to be some non realworld puzzle. And "But I write a compiler" is also that.
- flohofwoe 4y agoThere are a lot of useful things that don't have any business value, also in software. There is no business value in writing and maintaining a compiler for instance (not anymore at least), yet without compilers, no software with 'actual business value' could be created.
- mmcnl 4y agoYou're saying there is no business value, only to end with saying that there is business value? Very confusing. If you take something away and no one will ever notice it has no business value. If people do notice, it has business value. Very simple right?
- flohofwoe 4y agoTo me "business value" means it involves "doing business", which comes down to "making money". A compiler enables creating software that has 'business value' but the compiler has no 'business value' to the maintainers of that compiler (unless it's a commercial compiler which is a very rare breed nowadays).
- Existenceblinks 4y agoI agree only if fun is included. I've seen a lot of wow a cool opensource I wanted to try this, I want to play with, I will find problems to justify using this.