Re:Aaron Swartz: Perfectionism (and his new startup, Jottit)
by bootload on Friday August 31, 2007 @08:07PM
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"... Why doesn't he focus on web.py and promoting it? ..."
The focus is there. I've been lurking the web.py mail list for a long time (Jan 19, 2006 ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/88347878/ ) and there has been a steady progression of code since then. So in my view it is being promoted, worked on and improved.
"The programmers were in the corner doing what they were told.
That's one reason they were so easy to outsource. If a programmer
never really talks to the customer, never thinks, just solves little
puzzles, well that's a perfect candidate for something to offshore."
~ Founders at Work, Ch24, Philip Greenspun, P325, Livingston, 2007.
But instead of just promoting just another bit of technology, maybe it's better to do something with it. A lot of technology is commodity that can be replicated by some programmer in the corner. Build useful things with it, creating value is a lot harder to commoditise.
The focus is there. I've been lurking the web.py mail list for a long time (Jan 19, 2006 ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/88347878/ ) and there has been a steady progression of code since then. So in my view it is being promoted, worked on and improved.
But instead of just promoting just another bit of technology, maybe it's better to do something with it. A lot of technology is commodity that can be replicated by some programmer in the corner. Build useful things with it, creating value is a lot harder to commoditise.