I've started from a series of opcodes and am building my way up to actual programs, and at each step of the way, I get these kind of "stop reinventing the wheel", or "isn't this a solved problem".
I feel like a lot of these people have somehow bought into the myth of progress, or think that we're somehow smarter than people of the past, or that we've ascended from the old problems.
We're both looking at each other like, you're the foolish one. Computer science is too young to calcify.
@neauoire I get that a lot for being interested in amateur radio, for getting excited when you're able to contact somebody on the other side of the earth with 1W or stuff like that. They think on the lines of "we have the internet" or "Marconi did that 100 years ago". There's some truth in what they say, of course. Maybe. I think that everyone should find a good balance between walking unknown territory and reinventing wheels. When I do research for work, I'm really pissed if I get results that were already published, but when I'm doing things just for myself, I really enjoy even the simplest things like growing tomatoes.
I believe that what you do has more to do with art, poetry and music and nobody's ever told Brad Mehldau to stop playing Nick Drake's standards because they're old.
@zabow Haha, I like that analogy. "Stop playing piano, piano is a solved problem! We've figured it out"