Timeline for I still can't figure out how to program?
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Aug 12, 2011 at 8:47 | history | edited | Peter Mortensen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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Mar 12, 2011 at 11:22 | comment | added | user1249 | Presumably Microsoft did... | |
Dec 30, 2010 at 22:52 | comment | added | gablin | @kindall: Well, "solved" is a very iffy term here. It's only "solved" until something better shows up, but I get your point; GMail does it well enough that it'd be unlikely that you could do any better. | |
Dec 30, 2010 at 21:04 | comment | added | kindall | The main reason is that I consider GMail to have solved Web mail. Most programmers don't find it very interesting working on problems that have already been solved (and solved well) by others. You can probably find a problem that hasn't been solved yet and have a lot more fun -- and potentially bring it to market without having to compete with an 800 pound gorilla. | |
Dec 30, 2010 at 21:00 | comment | added | gablin | What's the harm in competing with GMail? If something you've written single-handily actually can compete with something that Google released, you can consider yourself a pretty damn good programmer. | |
Dec 30, 2010 at 20:56 | comment | added | gablin | +1 for starting with thinking about smaller things, and then moving to thinking in the same things and about larger things. | |
Dec 30, 2010 at 17:02 | comment | added | kindall | I guess it would depend on what you mean by "embedded." If you mean something like smartphones or integrated automotive systems, I can believe your 100 man-years. There are still plenty of smaller systems to work on in that space, though. | |
Dec 30, 2010 at 15:39 | comment | added | Bart van Ingen Schenau | I don't agree that embedded programs are typically smaller than desktop apps. It may have been so in the past, but I have worked on a few embedded products that took 100+ man-years of development and these were not considered particularly large. | |
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Dec 29, 2010 at 21:58 | history | answered | kindall | CC BY-SA 2.5 |