Open source provides much more insight into the day-to-day of development than people whose immediate family was not involved used to have. Reading talk slides

Open source provides much more insight into the day-to-day of development than people whose immediate family was not involved used to have. Reading talk slides gives me a much better idea of how mathematicians do mathematics than I ever had as an undergraduate. Cheap storage and cheap bandwidth ought to be revolutionary, for those willing to exploit them instead of be entertained by them. [I have had a reasonably successful career; I wonder how much of it was due to having had parents who habitually asked "is that true?" "how would you know?" "let's look it up" and, if it were true, how long it stayed true by making a more general claim, and if not, could it be made true by making a more specific claim? For early instruction in "reading between the lines" I credit MAD Magazine. But come to think of it, who arranged my subscription?]