Out for a while...

I'm burried right now with code so stronglytyped.com might be quiet for a while. See ya in a few.

Green Rules!

Simon posted a few pics of his green! Cool stuff! Gardening is really great for clearing the mind. Here's a few pics from my garden. There's nothing like eating greens fresh out of the garden.

Paying for software

"We don’t see this outside of the creative world: the man who paves the LA freeway makes roughly the same as the man who paves the little dead-end street outside my house, even though the LA freeway is used a great deal more often." [Aaron Swartz]

I see his analogy but it's not complete. He says that the guy who writes a popular piece of software gets paid more than someone who wrote something unpopular. He compares that to guys building roads. The difference is that the guys who are building the roads didn't take the initiative on the speculation. It probably was on of the municipalities who commissioned the construction. And I would imagine the one in LA is collecting more taxes than one out in the boonies. Programmers are paid about the same. Although, sometimes one programmer takes more initiative than another.

Besides all that, Aaron did have some interesting points in his post:

"This seems like a realy stupid and inefficient system to me, and while I’m not sure how to replace it in every case, it seems like it should be avoided when possible. That’s why I don’t understand it when Mark denigrates the systems we’ve come up with for replacing it. If anything, it’s the system of speculation (and its high costs to society) that should be denigrated."