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This is a waste of good talent. There are so many areas to innovate in that require talented programmers such as: - parallel computing - robotics - AI - Bal

This is a waste of good talent. There are so many areas to innovate in that require talented programmers such as: - parallel computing - robotics - AI - Balancing, Control algorithms - Speech processing - Vision processing and so much more. If you're good enough to do all that, they why go start all over from the front instead of just building on top of what we already have and trying to solve the hard problems? Your systems programming knowledge combined with some hardware good give us some impressive things. An OS without any networking support and that comes delivered with adverts is not innovate, and it is not going to be particularly useful for us. There will always be stamp collectors, but it would have been sad if Einstein devoted his talents solely towards collecting stamps. Sorry for saying it the way I see it, but if everybody always tries to be nice, you'll never hear the truth.

rkowalick 18y ago
Should one not study the geometry of Euclid, despite it being a "waste of good talent?" I mean, learning 2000 year old mathematics will not innovate or contribute to modern mathematics, right? People will do and learn things for their intrinsic value, and dismissing the act of learning because it doesn't benefit the rest of a field misses the point of gaining knowledge.
ibsulon 18y ago
I believe the point was he did this in his spare time for fun, with no expectations of anyone using it. There is no novel work in this, which would be consistent with a hobby project rather than doing brain-draining work in one's spare time.
almost 18y ago
Exactly! What's he doing programming just for the fun of i? He's not being serious! Down with fun! Seriously though, this is a hobby project with an express purpose of being fun. I'm sure there's also a lot to be learnt from it (by the author and by others) but that doesn't seem to be its primary goal. There is never anything wrong with doing something just for the fun of it. If everyone though like your comment reads the world would be a worse place.
old-gregg 18y ago
Your own mini-OS is a "waste of talent"? Looks like a much better application of talent (to me) than yet another "discover! discuss! share!" web site powered by rounded corners.
SwellJoe 18y ago
"This is a waste of good talent." Nearly everything you do each day is not focused on any of your declared important topics. Why not? Because you're human, and you can't work on important stuff every waking moment. Some people play golf for fun, some people watch TV, some people program mostly useless operating systems. I recently bought a couple of Commodore 64s to play with...time spent tinkering with an outdated computer like that is obviously time not spent on parallel computing, robotics, AI, balancing/control algorithms (but I'm getting all tingly just thinking about those, yes, sir!), speech processing or vision processing. Wasted.
losethos 18y ago
You guys are all pathetic. You look at the graphics and conclude it's not advanced. Be honest. If I had made a pretty picture... disgusted with you apes. The same sort who said in 1900, "everything has been invented". You're prolly linux cultists.
tdavis 18y ago
Given a sufficient amount of extrapolation, everything is a waste of good talent. You wasted good talent by writing this comment, as I am now doing in reply to it. In fact, given your list of areas only, everything I have ever done in my life has been a waste. There are a precious few people who have the talent and drive to devote their entire lives to the betterment of our world. The rest of us are just trying to get by, and have some fun in the process.

rkowalick 18y ago

Should one not study the geometry of Euclid, despite it being a "waste of good talent?" I mean, learning 2000 year old mathematics will not innovate or contribute to modern mathematics, right? People will do and learn things for their intrinsic value, and dismissing the act of learning because it doesn't benefit the rest of a field misses the point of gaining knowledge.

ibsulon 18y ago

I believe the point was he did this in his spare time for fun, with no expectations of anyone using it. There is no novel work in this, which would be consistent with a hobby project rather than doing brain-draining work in one's spare time.

almost 18y ago

Exactly! What's he doing programming just for the fun of i? He's not being serious! Down with fun! Seriously though, this is a hobby project with an express purpose of being fun. I'm sure there's also a lot to be learnt from it (by the author and by others) but that doesn't seem to be its primary goal. There is never anything wrong with doing something just for the fun of it. If everyone though like your comment reads the world would be a worse place.

old-gregg 18y ago

Your own mini-OS is a "waste of talent"? Looks like a much better application of talent (to me) than yet another "discover! discuss! share!" web site powered by rounded corners.

SwellJoe 18y ago

"This is a waste of good talent." Nearly everything you do each day is not focused on any of your declared important topics. Why not? Because you're human, and you can't work on important stuff every waking moment. Some people play golf for fun, some people watch TV, some people program mostly useless operating systems. I recently bought a couple of Commodore 64s to play with...time spent tinkering with an outdated computer like that is obviously time not spent on parallel computing, robotics, AI, balancing/control algorithms (but I'm getting all tingly just thinking about those, yes, sir!), speech processing or vision processing. Wasted.

losethos 18y ago

You guys are all pathetic. You look at the graphics and conclude it's not advanced. Be honest. If I had made a pretty picture... disgusted with you apes. The same sort who said in 1900, "everything has been invented". You're prolly linux cultists.

tdavis 18y ago

Given a sufficient amount of extrapolation, everything is a waste of good talent. You wasted good talent by writing this comment, as I am now doing in reply to it. In fact, given your list of areas only, everything I have ever done in my life has been a waste. There are a precious few people who have the talent and drive to devote their entire lives to the betterment of our world. The rest of us are just trying to get by, and have some fun in the process.