This documentary glorifies the insane practice of working unreasonably long hours to meet a self-imposed deadline. What bad things would have happened if the Mozilla release date had just been pushed back? Probably nothing. And maybe the quality of that initial release would have been better, and the people working on it wouldn't be burnt out afterward.
The cynicism that jwz wrote with in this time period about what it's like for young people working in tech was influential on me. I do believe it also comes through in some of his segments in the film.
It doesn't glorify it, it clearly shows the effect such behavior has on one's personal/family life, and how it can all be in vain anyway. It's clearly a crunch-is-problematic message, if not an anti-crunch message.
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This documentary glorifies the insane practice of working unreasonably long hours to meet a self-imposed deadline. What bad things would have happened if the Mozilla release date had just been pushed back? Probably nothing. And maybe the quality of that initial release would have been better, and the people working on it wouldn't be burnt out afterward.
The cynicism that jwz wrote with in this time period about what it's like for young people working in tech was influential on me. I do believe it also comes through in some of his segments in the film.
It doesn't glorify it, it clearly shows the effect such behavior has on one's personal/family life, and how it can all be in vain anyway. It's clearly a crunch-is-problematic message, if not an anti-crunch message.
The code mentioned in the documentary was thrown away at a later and they started over from scratch anyway didn't they?