Little today produces more economic value than code, and I am exceedingly grateful that it's nature enables the efforts of one man, or a small team, to bless humanity as a whole. More, I am personally grateful to you and your team, who directly bless me and all who read these words on Hive, with your work.
So much that omens portend is in the offing for the coming paradise our posterity will enjoy is code, or will be possible because of code. I am at times overcome with emotion at the prospect my sons and their peers will face because of work you and folks like you do.
I just wanted to thank you for leaving the world better than you find it.
Thanks!
I wholeheartedly agree with this idea: it's why I changed career paths in high school and decided to go into computers (originally I was thinking physics), because it was amazing to me the potential that computers had for changing society: not just because they allowed new things to be done, but also just because software allowed for a new distribution model where "cost-of-goods" was no longer much of an issue. If you make a useful piece of software, it's nearly free to give it to others.
And thanks for your kind words. Although the world can be dark at times, I'm still convinced that if we keep focused on making things better, those efforts will pay off in the end.