Topic: Vitalik codeing resume (Read 592 times)

I am, critical, becuase how can anything he says carry weight if he does not understand how codeing works

I mean ... i had to learn, boolean logic, gate logic, build some gate logic machines, machine code, assembly, fortan, C++, JavaScript. So I understand basically what programing is and does from the ground up.

there is no way you could stand up and say X about code product, and that is exactly what Eth and DAO is without at least being able to select a group of people that can code. You also need to take a good hard look at critical parts of the code base.

I'm not critical of VB for not being a great coder, because that's not his major contribution.

I do think he's in the mess up to his eyeballs, and he's obviously got a massive conflict of interest. IMO he should review what happened with the NXT BTER hack. In that case NXT core dev Jean-Luc released the hard-fork code, but without any commentary at all ... he just posted the code and left it up to the 'network' to decide which way to proceed (rollback or not). That's how VB should handle this.

its not staling if its public info

just can see he knows anything about code, or what he is talking about.

I read a few things he wrote and is seems more puff then based in logic or maths, when you examine it carefully.

I get that bit....but it does not equip him to pick a team of competent coders

Let me try and explain things a little better as perhaps some of my personal disappointments in these past few years tend to impact upon my posts (once you've been hounded like I have been you might also become a little bitter).

Typically software developers that work for commercial software companies (and I was such a developer for many years) are kept insulated from the financial side of said companies and even generally from the clients (I rarely ever took a support call in over 15 years of such professional work and didn't even have much email correspondence with any "end users").

As the average software developer is more of an introvert they tend to work best kept in small teams with others similar to themselves (and this is the environment they mostly prefer to be working in and the model that most successful software development companies use).

The open source movement has a bit of a different dynamic but it isn't even nearly as confused with funding dynamics as projects in this particular field have become (where investment/crowdfunding/ICO's and developers/salespeople/scammers have all become a bit of a blur).

Basically this has resulted in (genuine) developers being forced into an uncomfortable (for them) "spotlight" that includes direct contact with people who often don't even understand software development at all (but are always happy to criticise).

I used to think that the idea of having less layers was a good thing but when it comes to software development itself now I am not so sure at all (as the team of relatively unknown devs that are well looked after and insulated from the outside works better IMO).

So for a way "forward" I would suggest that devs should be managed by a development management team (maybe just one or two people can do that) whose job it is to keep the devs insulated from the outside (so they can do productive development work without the unwanted attention and pressure).

VB is a good writer, a decent speaker, and was prepared to be the public face, so that made him useful, and that made him influential, and that made him rich

what has this guy done in codeing, maths or logic?

I have yet to find much about his abilities beyond getting people behind him

Not saying that is not a serious skill

but no so much in actually building the product.

Its sorta showing now as in the whole stable of DAO Eth not one of the programmers saw the bug (or did they)