I have personal dislikes of Ramsay (I'm a fucking vegan) but, shit, he can do the business when it comes to shifting food. His advice always seems kind of obvious once you've heard him say it. He strips away your bullshit. Sell a few things, well defined, well executed and well presented. Choose a price point and live up to it. You've got 4 hours (7-11) to make your money. People don't like choice - show them one of starter then fish, meat & veg. No-one cares if you can present 100 different meals, they can only eat one at a time and at a maximum they will turn up once a week.
Know your customers and make their decisions for them, that's what they pay you for,
Moore's law doesn't say anything about speed or power. It says manufacturing costs will lower from technological improvements such that the transistor count in an IC will double every 2 years.
n.b. : I hit reply on the wrong post and only noticed after hitting submit
While not doomed, if you have the poor primitives you will have a bad time.
All the talk if it being so hard is because people try and figure it out for themselves while ignoring the literature. Hoare paved the way it in 1978 and basically solved the problem. I bet most programmers have barely heard of him, let alone read his work. It took 8 years to get the book printed but now it's a free download http://www.usingcsp.com/
bash is an awful shell. Significant whitespace, multiple ways of doing the same thing, 3 levels of nested escapes, horrific bloat (how often do you do binary arithmetic ?).
It is a fine example of what happens when you let a Gnu loose in your userspace.
It gets plenty of attention. IBM runs it on Blue Gene. LANL run it on their cluster. There's about 50 active posters to the 9fans mailing list. Features are regularly poorly copied to Linux (rabbit shaped peg, penguin shaped hole). Plenty of people say "how can usermode be fast" and yet Coriad use it in their AoE enterprise disk products, of which there are over 1000 installations afaik (I'm not a Coriad rep).
I also earn my living plan9 & inferno programming and I know at least 10 other people who are equally blessed (not all at the same place as I).
That's partly my fault, when I was a wee lad fiddling with display computers in shops was a Saturday hobby. As time went by it got harder and harder to fuck with them.
Changing the default shell from Explorer to Fileman was an early trick.
Know your customers and make their decisions for them, that's what they pay you for,