> Since when did 100 lines of web application code become innovation?
When it makes executing and polishing the products easier.
> I am not sure if there can be a scale for innovation but a 100 line web 2.0 application is no match for the integrated circuit.
So, |EE| > |CS|?
100 lines of well written code in a functional programming language can do marvelously things. Just look at: http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html and then tell me how connecting AND and OR gates compare intellectually?
> Where is the innovation that focuses on the hard problems?
Or education material so those that come after us skip 10% of our problems.
> Pasting code on blogs and sites is just show-off
Or marketing
> What seems to be also missing is the appreciation for incremental and painstaking detail oriented innovation.
In aggregate, you get to see the results of people's pain staking details in whatever form they market it as. A post may represent a good night of hacking or a year of research to produce one moment of clarity.
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> Since when did 100 lines of web application code become innovation?
When it makes executing and polishing the products easier.
> I am not sure if there can be a scale for innovation but a 100 line web 2.0 application is no match for the integrated circuit.
So, |EE| > |CS|?
100 lines of well written code in a functional programming language can do marvelously things. Just look at: http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html and then tell me how connecting AND and OR gates compare intellectually?
> Where is the innovation that focuses on the hard problems?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1585850
> code is just code
Or education material so those that come after us skip 10% of our problems.
> Pasting code on blogs and sites is just show-off
Or marketing
> What seems to be also missing is the appreciation for incremental and painstaking detail oriented innovation.
In aggregate, you get to see the results of people's pain staking details in whatever form they market it as. A post may represent a good night of hacking or a year of research to produce one moment of clarity.