I think it sounds pretty rewarding. Comprehending something complex and foreign and manipulating it to do what you want is why I chose to write software for a living.
I would imagine those guys still get a complete rush every time they implement a cool hack. I can just see that guy calling everyone in the office over to see Tiger make a hole-in-one every time.
Personally, sitting down with pages of hex dumps sounds more fun to me than designing a GUI or implementing a design pattern.
Just this week I sent a 15GB Deskstar for RMA. My 30GB at home still works though. And, as far as I know, all the PCs that I've made for my friends are still running with their Deskstars.
I had no idea there were so many problems with these drives. Time to get active.
Something needs to be done to light a fire under the developers. Maybe articles like this will do that.
Whenever I go see if a bug is already entered, I usually find they've been trying to look for the bug "owner" for months! Where I work, it would be my head if it took me 10 months to fix a bug. In the status reports, these developers fix one or two bugs a week!
Another related problem is the massive complexity of the beast. Most conversations I see going on in Bugzilla reflect the hurdles that need to be leaped just to find somebody that has a clue. This also makes a huge barrier for entry to non-netscape developers that want to help out.
Sorry for ranting, but this project has the potential to be fantastic. If it could lose some mass and get in gear, it could be revolutionary.
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I think it sounds pretty rewarding. Comprehending something complex and foreign and manipulating it to do what you want is why I chose to write software for a living.
I would imagine those guys still get a complete rush every time they implement a cool hack. I can just see that guy calling everyone in the office over to see Tiger make a hole-in-one every time.
Personally, sitting down with pages of hex dumps sounds more fun to me than designing a GUI or implementing a design pattern.
Just this week I sent a 15GB Deskstar for RMA. My 30GB at home still works though. And, as far as I know, all the PCs that I've made for my friends are still running with their Deskstars.
I had no idea there were so many problems with these drives. Time to get active.
Something needs to be done to light a fire under the developers. Maybe articles like this will do that.
Whenever I go see if a bug is already entered, I usually find they've been trying to look for the bug "owner" for months! Where I work, it would be my head if it took me 10 months to fix a bug. In the status reports, these developers fix one or two bugs a week!
Another related problem is the massive complexity of the beast. Most conversations I see going on in Bugzilla reflect the hurdles that need to be leaped just to find somebody that has a clue. This also makes a huge barrier for entry to non-netscape developers that want to help out.
Sorry for ranting, but this project has the potential to be fantastic. If it could lose some mass and get in gear, it could be revolutionary.
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