Talk of tech innovation is bullsh*t. Shut up and get the work done – says Linus Torvalds
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Torvalds said he subscribes to the view that successful projects are 99 per cent perspiration, and one per cent innovation.
That's old fart thinking. Successful projects these days are coming up with the idea, raking in venture capital, and then... well, you have the venture capital, what else do you need? Back my Kickstarter, by the way.
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@Maciejasjmj said in Talk of tech innovation is bullsh*t. Shut up and get the work done – says Linus Torvalds:
Back my Kickstarter, by the way.
Fuck you. Give @Lorne-Kates money.
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Yes, Linus, innovation is for idiots. C99 is the only programming language that we'll ever need, a big monolithic kernel is the best design we'll ever have, sh is the only scripting language we'll ever want, the UNIX CLI is the most usable interface we'll ever create, and the FHS is the best file system design we'll ever make.
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@anonymous234 he may be crazy, but talk about inovation is really most hype, bullshit and bandwagoning, and I'm tired of people falling for it
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@anonymous234 said in Talk of tech innovation is bullsh*t. Shut up and get the work done – says Linus Torvalds:
C99 is the only programming language that we'll ever need
You seem to have too many nines in that number. Did you mean C89?
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@ben_lubar said in Talk of tech innovation is bullsh*t. Shut up and get the work done – says Linus Torvalds:
@anonymous234 said in Talk of tech innovation is bullsh*t. Shut up and get the work done – says Linus Torvalds:
C99 is the only programming language that we'll ever need
You seem to have too many nines in that number. Did you mean C89?
Pfft. K&R FTW!
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@Maciejasjmj said in Talk of tech innovation is bullsh*t. Shut up and get the work done – says Linus Torvalds:
Torvalds said he subscribes to the view that successful projects are 99 per cent perspiration, and one per cent innovation.
That's old fart thinking. Successful projects these days are coming up with the idea, raking in venture capital, and then... well, you have the venture capital, what else do you need? Back my Kickstarter, by the way.
Here I have a strategy for you:
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@fbmac said in Talk of tech innovation is bullsh*t. Shut up and get the work done – says Linus Torvalds:
@anonymous234 he may be crazy, but talk about inovation is really most hype, bullshit and bandwagoning, and I'm tired of people falling for it
Yup. Idea that never executes worth nothing. Don't let the ideas rot.
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@cheong the worst is managers that talk about inovation all the time, but barely spends money/manpower for inadequate execution of old ideas (in a large multinational).
If we'll be always running to badly implement what our competitors already have then shut the fuck up about inovation.
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@fbmac said in Talk of tech innovation is bullsh*t. Shut up and get the work done – says Linus Torvalds:
If we'll be always running to badly implement what our competitors already have then shut the fuck up about inovation.
Well it works for Apple...
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"All the really stressful times for me have been about process. They haven't been about code. When code doesn't work, that can actually be exciting ... Process problems are a pain in the ass. You never, ever want to have process problems ... That's when people start getting really angry at each other."
QFT
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"Shut up an code"
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Like everything the truth is somewhere in the middle.
Innovation is taking a good idea that didn't quite work and fixing it and then releasing a product that does work.
Classic cases
- Diamond Rio vs iPod.
- Google Maps > Every other online map service.
I think a lot of managers don't really know what innovation is or care.
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@lucas1 manager talk like we're doing a Google maps killer when we're really making imprecise paper maps, with the pages in an order that doesn't make sense and hard to read outdated street names
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@fbmac I was working on something similar in 2007 when Google maps first came about and I was a junior programmer. The best I could do was a Grid Square style map with 4 way directions .. I could have ajaxed everything but the I had one server and the number of requests would kill it.
I didn't know anything about debouncing on the client side at the time or throttling on server side.
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@sloosecannon said in Talk of tech innovation is bullsh*t. Shut up and get the work done – says Linus Torvalds:
@fbmac said in Talk of tech innovation is bullsh*t. Shut up and get the work done – says Linus Torvalds:
If we'll be always running to badly implement what our competitors already have then shut the fuck up about inovation.
Well it works for Apple...
They do not badly implement what their competitors already have for decades, they rename them after crippling them.
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@dse That is the definition of innovation well done.
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@fbmac said in Talk of tech innovation is bullsh*t. Shut up and get the work done – says Linus Torvalds:
@lucas1 manager talk like we're doing a Google maps killer when we're really making imprecise paper maps, with the pages in an order that doesn't make sense and hard to read outdated street names
Reminds me that once upon a time, my boss gave me a Linux server with about 1TB harddisk space and tell me to create a search engine that resembles Google, only better because it will also show the thumbnail image of the URLs in result. There will be a 7x24
servicedaemon that keep downloading snapshot of front page of these URLs.
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@cheong The best bit about this was I was on a placement ... i.e. I hadn't even finished my Degree.
Two my Ajax skills (this was back in 2006) was "read some text from the server via a handler written in PHP".