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So, in 2005 I was involved in a company that thought "man, it would be great to build a search engine for source code".

I don't relish the idea of building a company and then selling it... but life is more complicated than that.

Just as we build credit through many transactions, so we build credibility by the very pattern of our lives.

This means you can build up a Lisp program interactively in very small pieces, switching between namespaces as you go, etc.

"And most importantly: Dont be ashamed to build 100% JavaScript applications.

They're paid big bucks because they win money for their clients, prevent their clients from losing money and build networks to people that have money to give them.

You're never going to build a rocket to the moon by starting in your backyard with some sheet metal - your lifespan isn't long enough if you take that approach.

Teachers are forced to build a profile of every child in their class along with a description of his/her family's situation.

You're going to be spending time rebuilding things other people take for granted no matter who you are and what language and technology you are working in.

I can gaurentee that we can build concrete pylons capable of holding up a steel tube, that is done all over the country dozens of different uses cases.

"At some point you have to build a real business, generate real profits, sustain the company without the largess of investor’s capital, and start producing value the old fashioned way. "Exactly.

But the Chrome team is flat-out arrogant here: they want to build a zero-configuration product, and they're quite brazen about it, and Fuck You if you're blind or deaf or whatever.

Because "build atop a crumbling foundation" has demonstrated time and again to be, by far, the most successful way to accomplish anything in computing?

But can we build a multi-hundred mile long steel tube to the required tolerances?I would be inclined to trade off efficiency for manufacturability.

Modern testing and build systems might, but regulators aren't keen to change their testing systems, many of which were encoded by legislation decades ago.

The government is also actively building a electronic patient file, containing all medical details of every person.

If each bounce goes through a team with a 15-minute response time, it can be hours before the right team finally finds out, unless you build a lot of scaffolding and metrics and reporting.- every single one of your peer teams suddenly becomes a potential DOS attacker.

Quite often though industry biases will engage and they'll be put on duty keeping some legacy system alive because their deep knowledge of the system lets the company put 1 guy maintaining half a million lines of code in perpetuity vs. 10 young guys maintaining the same, who all wanting to leave after a few years to build more skills.

Much in the same way, when you've crammed the ifs and elses, the fors and whiles, the variables and constants, the pointers and pointers to pointers, and pointers to functions, and pointers to pointers to pointers to functions, and then you go on to build that thingamabob or model that gene sequence or understand that earthquake, then you realize the true power of what you've been working with.