I think Wave is a creative and full of effort generalization of a basic idea: adding something to GMail to promote online work coordination and cooperation. They went way too far and they realized it. I would, istread of throwing everything away, rework the concept and see what can come out.
He starts saying DB abstraction layers are useless and he seem to conclude saying every abstraction and every library not written by you is pointless
this seem to me like "I'm paranoid about unknown code but I can't accept the truth SO I reinvent the wheel over and over again putting my code in my library and I say everyone this is cool cause it's faster and performance and bla bla blah"
the truth:
abstraction -> helps think about the logic that matters in your program
library -> helps not to reinvent the wheel and use code tested by everyone
his logic:
abstraction -> ZOMG unknown stuff HEEELP, let's think about every algorithm in my program from scratch and let's justify this to me by saying I'm saving 3-4 intermediate function calls
aim for 5% annual return, leave 2,5% for inflaction, and you'll be forever free with 25K/year
yea you should carefully pick up your bank or your freedom could vanish in the next credit crunch :)
high attention to details from hardware to OS features: OSX just works and it's simple too and if you need unix tools just install macports and you are ready to go...sounds obvious: it works and it's simple
US has the highest income in the world for programmers. The only european country close to US is UK, everything else is at least 50% less.