By meaningful work, do you mean that it pays, or that it is satisfying? Maybe it's tunnel vision, but as software person, I feel that I will always have satisfying (meaningful) work to do -- it just may not always make me money! Just like a craftsman with his woodworking shop, there is not much that's going to be able to stop me from going into my 'shop' to put in a good day's mindsweat writing some code.
]]>Alternatively, but along the same grain, I'd like to hear speculation about the future of operating systems. I prefer doing OS-level development and I think of myself as an enabler for users (developers). Will OSes eventually be so "solid"/widespread that no one actively develops them any more (instead there could be Vinge-esque software archaeologists)?
]]>Rudy, are you familiar with autofiction? It's common in contemporary French writing. Your transreal writing strikes me as the exact same thing, except with a SF bent. :^)
]]>Yes, Charlie will you and Cory hand over your email logs from the last decade for the the-making-of book?
More seriously, do you have your passwords in escrow with a layer or maybe backups in a deposit box with your will saying "yo dawg, plz give these to the people"? It's cool that we know so much about how HPL thought because he left a bunch of physical letters around. But how will we know what CS and CD were thinking!?
]]>Maybe I'm not "popular" enough yet to get noticed? Maybe because my regional/locale settings are in French (practicing my second language, I'm Canadian) the name is setting off fewer alarms?
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