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In my opinion, both outcomes are sad and unfortunate. Who has benefited from the engineer's genius? Well, a bunch of journal articles got written and perhaps someone wrote a dissertation or five, alternatively a few thousands of dollars got written off the bottom line of some mega-corp. That's when the entrepreneur steps in. Either the dinky program fix, or the obscure (or not so much) journal article can be turned i…
Heh, only if the buisness guy is dumb. If he solved a problem that really was of that magnitude, he could probably license the technology for $$$.
In my opinion, both outcomes are sad and unfortunate. Who has benefited from the engineer's genius? Well, a bunch of journal articles got written and perhaps someone wrote a dissertation or five, alternatively a few thousands of dollars got written off the bottom line of some mega-corp. That's when the entrepreneur steps in. Either the dinky program fix, or the obscure (or not so much) journal article can be turned i…
Adorable self-congratulation.
"My god .. this will mean a new feature in our next version, an email blast to every industry paper, blog and publication, a massive user-drive, and after we juice it, we can let our R&D spinoff company license the tech to other companies, but if we keep it, this will be an strategic asset and a big bargaining chip in any acquisition talks .. really, this puts us in the same market as the big co that has been looking for an acquisition."
We're slipping into Digg territory here - we're not going to go down the "posting all xkcd cartoons" route are we? I love xkcd incidentally.
In my opinion, both outcomes are sad and unfortunate. Who has benefited from the engineer's genius? Well, a bunch of journal articles got written and perhaps someone wrote a dissertation or five, alternatively a few thousands of dollars got written off the bottom line of some mega-corp. That's when the entrepreneur steps in. Either the dinky program fix, or the obscure (or not so much) journal article can be turned i…
We're slipping into Digg territory here - we're not going to go down the "posting all xkcd cartoons" route are we? I love xkcd incidentally.
I don't think "posting all xkcd cartoons" is near happening in HN at all. This one it's pretty close to the HN main interests (academy research and/or entrepreneurism)
I've really started to dislike this self-congratulory style of postings ("managers are stupid, hackers should rule the world").
So we can understand computers. Guess what, it isn't rocket science. OK, maybe it is kind of rocket science - but the reason other people don't understand it is simply because they are not interested, not because they are somehow inferior.
In my opinion, both outcomes are sad and unfortunate. Who has benefited from the engineer's genius? Well, a bunch of journal articles got written and perhaps someone wrote a dissertation or five, alternatively a few thousands of dollars got written off the bottom line of some mega-corp. That's when the entrepreneur steps in. Either the dinky program fix, or the obscure (or not so much) journal article can be turned i…
I think you'll find that programming ability and vision go hand in hand. So when you talk about "brilliant people ... who truly think the two outcomes on the right are the only possibilities", by definition they are unlikely to exist in significant numbers. Brilliant programmers don't believe that academia and large corporations are the only two possibilities. They wouldn't be great programmers if they couldn't see p…
I think it's to a great degree a cultural thing. If you are exposed to something repeatedly and told it is good, such as being an academic scientist, a programmer for a company, yes, even an entrepreneur, you are more likely to see that thing as a promising path.
Here on HN everyone is inundated with "startup this" and "startup that", so I seem to be belaboring a point, but my personal experience has been that "out there" entrepreneurship is not often enough seen as a viable option and that the inclination to do it is a variable (somewhat) independent of the brilliance of the hacker.