thank you, that's a really good idea

On Sun, Mar 30, 2025, 4:41 PM Eli Cohen <[email protected]> wrote:

> oh, yeah, definitely, explain that to them
>
> On Sun, Mar 30, 2025, 4:38 PM Ron Minnich <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I don't know about hiring. But this talk has an interesting
>> perspective: https://youtu.be/7Yp8Smkznmk?si=9yxeY7eA4ieNvQcL
>>
>> The presenter mentions that, using the microsoft industrial control
>> stuff, with its reams of documentation, was actually harder than just
>> writing code in Plan 9. Some sort of threshold gets crossed on these
>> systems, where reading a little bit of C is easier than reading a
>> giant pile of semi-accurate documentation.
>>
>> So there are companies starting to see that working with a compact,
>> well-written system, where you have source; can be easier than working
>> with a gargantuan system which is a large set of binary blobs,
>> constantly changing in ways that make it hard to understand.
>>
>> Maybe that's where you want to look.
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 30, 2025 at 6:03 AM Eli Cohen <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > I really did not think to just ask on the mailing list, but why not...
>> > is anyone hiring people for anything they can do here who are not that
>> > good at doing anything else?

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