[Noisebridge-discuss] Dijkstra's "There is still a war going on"

[Joel Jaeggli]

Marketing without substance behind it creates negative value. You could
for example buy as many patent medical cures as you wanted but until
1909 not one of them would cure your syphilis.

Jason Dusek wrote:
>   I am a great fan of Dijkstra's writing. Something that
>   recently showed up on Reddit:
> 
>     http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD11xx/EWD1165.html
> 
>   He makes such a strong case for the role of the technician,
>   the scientist, as the creator of value that ultimately makes
>   our modern world possible. Surely this is correct; but is he
>   missing something? The dominance of the business/marketing
>   side is undeniable; if technicians were really so powerful,
>   would we not have managed to overcome our thralldom by now?

Division of labor, if you're busy solving a problem, it's someone else's
job to allocate capital.

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