my point is, that after 15+ years of software development in various languages and environments I could take on any programming task in any language (even having to learn it). the task could require either specific domain knowledge that I already posess or that I have to learn to the extent that allows me to do the job.
if I get interested in AI and spend 3 years experimenting with it, I'm still a programmer... and an AI pro.
well I used to be a project manager and a methodology (either PM or software development) evangelist for a medium-sized company before going freelance.
for me going freelance was starting a business - a one person business, and you might call it a startup or not - does not matter really.
what I agree on, after reading this post, is when you're pretty small and you're struggling to get things going, and doing many things on your own (or with just a cofounder or so) (you don't want to lose those customers, do you?) it's pretty hard to use any process methodology / method.
to me what LLL is proposing is an ad-hoc methodology wrapped up in a tool, and I would not use it. because of the dragon. and because I have to make a living.
I prefer to polish my Rails skills to prepare for the next startup-to-be.
when you felt like you had power over the machine and today you’re just part of a mainstream movement
I think that 30, 40 years ago, when there was no mobile and PCs were not mainstream, the time was right for business like the early Apple or different microcomputer platforms. The time was also right for B. Gates and his garage MS DOS lab.
I agree that now we're all floating in the mainstream, because doing something different, starting a new branch means HUGE business and we're not able to do that.
I hope that the down-shifting that occurs with RPis will spark spark up new hardware based startups and will bring computers down back to smaller entrepreneurs.
my point is, that after 15+ years of software development in various languages and environments I could take on any programming task in any language (even having to learn it). the task could require either specific domain knowledge that I already posess or that I have to learn to the extent that allows me to do the job.
if I get interested in AI and spend 3 years experimenting with it, I'm still a programmer... and an AI pro.