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Yeah, exactly. What if there're no problems to solve? I like the metronome just fine and I want to write a Tetris in Haskell just to see if I can do it, or some
by greenhearth 4y ago
Yeah, exactly. What if there're no problems to solve? I like the metronome just fine and I want to write a Tetris in Haskell just to see if I can do it, or something like that?
- amonith 4y agoEven if someone created a design that solves "the problem", there are probably thousands of subjects/situations where that design needs to be actually applied. No single software scales infinitely and is infinitely customizable. Some software even is customizable too much and that becomes its own problem. We need a lot of "bricklayers" that don't care about the problem but can be elastically moved around between projects to implement the ever increasing backlog of "solutions". Entire companies are created that solve that exact problem.
- greenhearth 4y agoThis is the old Joseph Weizenbaum observation that the computer is a "solution looking for a problem," which, now that you mention it, I think can be applied to the entire tech industry.