[jiggawatts]

I hope this brilliant work has been merged into the relevant open source libraries.

Something that’s unfair about the world is that work like this could reach billions of people and save a million dollars worth of time and electricity annually but is being done gratis.

It would be amazing if there were charities that rewarded high-impact open source contributions like this proportionally to the benefits to humanity…

[benreesman]

Effective hiring managers are always paying attention in the hopes of noticing the people doing this excellent stuff and asking whether “now” or “soon” is the right time to offer such people high paying jobs.

I doubt my current garage band could afford the OP just this moment, but I sure wish we could!

[wooosh]

> I doubt my current garage band could afford the OP just this moment, but I sure wish we could!

Well, I intend to finish high school at a minimum before pursuing employment :)

[benreesman]

Someone as far ahead of the curve as you clearly are might enjoy the second chapter of Coders at Work, which is an interview with Brad Fitzpatrick. bfitz wrote everything from memcached to big chunks of TailScale and much in between.

He went to university in CS but would have been bored to sleep if he didn’t have something else going on, so he founded and ran LiveJournal simultaneously.

I bet someone on this thread knows him and I bet he’d take the time to offer some pointers to an up-and-comer like yourself. I’ve never met him, but I did some business with Six Apart in a previous life and people say he’s a really nice guy.

Either way, keep it up!

[james-redwood]

It works well in science (think the Nobel Prizes), and there's certainly more than enough money floating around in the tech community for it to work.