That's a pretty brilliant idea! Sounds like something I'd love to try some day. Of course, two days—or even fourteen days—at a single company isn't enough to g

That's a pretty brilliant idea! Sounds like something I'd love to try some day. Of course, two days—or even fourteen days—at a single company isn't enough to get much programming done. So I suspect just trying to do normal programming would not really be in the interest of the companies or me. However, it sounds like a great chance to share some of my more specialized, esoteric knowledge, like functional programming, FRP, verification or synthesis: things which might be useful for a startup or project, but tend to languish away in research labs or deep inside large corporations. In the future, if I'm ever in a real position to try this—I guess if I get better known and learn more interesting things to share—I'll definitely consider trying something like this.