The giant bureaucracies are doing some pretty amazing innovation. Look at Google's web platform features, Bluetooth LE, etc.
There's just certain things they can't do because their incentive is stuff you constantly pay for all the time.
I'd love to be part of something like old 90s revolutionary software.
But I've noticed close to zero interest from the dev community in anything like that.
Everyone mostly just wants to play with sorting algorithms or write their own small language, unless they're getting paid a whole lot. It's become a sport more than an engineering discipline.
It's hard to imagine Excel or BitTorrent being written now.
Heck, it's hard to even imagine web browsers with JavaScript being written now.
What kind of projects would you like to see/work on?
There's just certain things they can't do because their incentive is stuff you constantly pay for all the time.
I'd love to be part of something like old 90s revolutionary software.
But I've noticed close to zero interest from the dev community in anything like that.
Everyone mostly just wants to play with sorting algorithms or write their own small language, unless they're getting paid a whole lot. It's become a sport more than an engineering discipline.
It's hard to imagine Excel or BitTorrent being written now.
Heck, it's hard to even imagine web browsers with JavaScript being written now.
What kind of projects would you like to see/work on?