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Excellent post highlighting the problem solving skills and tenacity of a talented engineer. Of course, this is also the "duct tape and paper clips" approach to writing software that I certainly would not advocate for production systems.


I don't know where you got the impression that he was doing any of this with the intention of putting it on production.


I didn't get that impression. I was trying to say that I admire the author without also advocating putting a bunch of clever hacks into production.


I don't know where you got the impression that he got the impression that he was doing any of this with the intention of putting it on production.




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