[90770] in Cypherpunks
Re: Seeing Both Sides
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Sun Nov 23 11:44:51 1997
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 97 10:04:53 EST
In-Reply-To: <v03102802b09d6e2dcfcf@[207.167.93.63]>
Reply-To: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Tim May <tcmay@got.net> writes:
> I'm happy doing what I'm doing. I think I do it pretty well, Certainly
> better than learning C or C++ and becoming YACC (Yet Another C Coder). No
> insult to C coders, but at age 45, after making a bundle of money doing
> physics and AI, and retiring eleven years ago, I hardly think training
> myself at this point to be a C journeyman is what I want to do with my life.
Let's take an inventory of what Tiny Timmy can contribute to our cause:
* capital
* ability to spec out projects and figure out what needs to be done
He lacks:
* time
* C coding skills
* understanding of non-RSA cryptography (such as elliptic curves)
Here's an idea. Suppose you want a certain program to be written and
made available for free. Spec out the design and offer to pay a few
thousand dollars for someone to code it and post it.
Put your money where your mouth it, Tiny Timmy.
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