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Jamie Zawinski is not "hard at work building the future". According to his own website, he is managing the DNA lounge, and the last thing of any substance he wo
by Virax 17y ago
Jamie Zawinski is not "hard at work building the future". According to his own website, he is managing the DNA lounge, and the last thing of any substance he worked on was a program to delete silence from mp3 streams (see http://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/src/archiver/ http://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/src/archiver/). He claims a copyright date of 2001-2006 for this program, which, after a quick skim, appears to be high quality. In my opinion, he is a talented programmer who has this to say about the software industry:
(1999+) But now I've taken my leave of that whole sick,
navel-gazing mess we called the software
industry. Now I'm in a more honest line of
work: now I sell beer.
So, I suppose, Joel is right, in a roundabout way:
Selling beer => flirtation => sex => sperm + egg = Building a future human being!
But seriously, Joel is on crack.
- tsally 17y agoOnce you build something as important as Netscape Navigator and cash out for a good chunk of money, I think it's ok to do whatever you want. Building something for the future doesn't have to be a lifelong thing.
- eugenejen 17y agoJamie also worked under Peter Norvig, and this is what Peter said about Jamie: ". One of the best programmers I ever hired had only a High School degree; he's produced a lot of great software, has his own news group, and made enough in stock options to buy his own nightclub. " -- from http://norvig.com/21-days.html http://norvig.com/21-days.html