Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Many years ago I read Fredrick Brooks iconic book on software engineering – The Mythical Man-Month. One of his key messages is that adding additional software engineers to an already late project will just delay things more. Government cto government harper reed mythical-man month obamacare software engineering tech'

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 25, 2013

The summer of 2003, I started an open-source (Drupal-based) project for the campaign (Deanspace), got a job in the campaign HQ in Burlington, VT, dropped out of school, and had about the most profound professional experience one could at age 19 in 2003. We’re engineers laying down foundational tech that others will build on top of.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 28, 2010

It remains – at least in my mind – one of the most heroic engineering scenes in the movies. Then, open source all of their thinking. And it will have the added benefit of inspiring a new generation of engineers to go after doing heroic things. Tags: Current Affairs engineering mit.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 25, 2010

While they like sites like Stack Overflow and Github’s wiki pages on different open source projects, Nate and Natty never found a great site on the web that has comprehensive documentation on how to program. As they were trying to get basic stuff to work, they spent time searching for and then reading the full posts and comments.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 3, 2012

OccamRobotics , founded by a serial entrepreneur who came to Boulder from the bay area, is working on low-cost, autonomous pallet trucks that build up on recent breakthroughs in robotic algorithms, availability of open-source tools , and novel sensors.

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