chris100
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Comment · 15 years ago
Comment · 15 years ago
Yes, but in startups, being a PM is often very hard, because no one has to listen to you. So you need to bring your own credibility and influence so the product gets done properly.
It's hard, and "fluffy" at the same time :-)
Comment · 16 years ago
It's like the iPhone (or the Mac, for that matter). No one knew they wanted a better search, until an obviously superior search comes along.
So I wouldn't say it's hopeless for Bing at all. There are so many ways that search could be different from Google's current results...
Comment · 16 years ago
Love it, but it has one problem. Your argument is basically that it's a free market.
So, assuming the market is bad and jobs are hard to find, is it then ok to work nights and weekends like the article describes? Or should there be some kind of limit to "slavery"?
Comment · 16 years ago
I'm not sure what they expect exactly.
On one hand, as a hacker myself, I like the idea. It's as free-form as possible. Which is exactly the right spirit of hacking: no forms to fill out, no rules and procedures.
On the other hand, they are bound to end up with thousands of weird requests. Sorting through those will be a lot of work, in order to find a handful of gems, I'm afraid.
But I hope it works out for them and trickles down to the entire hacker community.
That's the key restriction from Linus right there. He was talking about system-level code.
For everything else (application-level, frameworks, etc.), you need the abstractions that C++ provides.