It's a bit annoying to go through that post without knowing the context of why he's so pissed... Honestly, Open Source is a great source of frustration exactly because they're managed by benevolent dictators that are more often the latter while forgetting the former.
Yeah sure that's their piece of code and you're free to fork if you don't like it, but why open sourcing your project in the first place if it is not to have a benevolent ear to potential contributors, in other terms to create a community? An Open Source project without the community is just futile.
> why open sourcing your project in the first place if it is not to have a benevolent ear to potential contributors, in other terms to create a community?
one reason: providing code that others may learn or benefit from even while you recognize that you won't have time to manage a community.
I definitely understand there are reasons outside of that, but you should be ready (and happy) for a community to build up on your release of interesting Open Source software.
it's quite a thrill! until the months fly by and you get a particular kind of tone on an issue opened on your repository for a thing you can't devote time to anymore. and that burn can scar.
I refuse to learn these numbers, they are outdated so fast. Are they still relevant today? One would spend quite some time figuring that out instead of optimizing his own code/architecture... For which there's always good discounts to get!
Very often equity at all cost means leveling down everybody. It also feels a bit contradictory to privilege already gifted students with a programme though.
I don't think it should be privilege to receive an education that challenges you. Punishing the kids for the sins of being born to "privilege" doesn't seem fair. And if kids of privilege are the only ones in the gifted program, you're not doing it right, which is the point of TFA.
I so fucking agree. That 5 songs only for each damn artist, that makes you browse through albums... What an outrage! I just gave up and don't use the app anymore. So frustrating.
That's a record very unlikely to be broken anytime soon. Starting working before 18 is becoming more and more uncommon and staying at the same company is definitely unfashionable nowadays...
I learned from clever dad in Germany - employ your kids asap. So you will help them paying into retirement fund reach working year count needed for retirement faster.
That's the very reason why I don't want full remote as a norm. I want to see my people and meet colleagues, for a good laugh or whatever but for human interactions that I value a lot. Very sad story here, twice as sad with that profound lack of human interaction...
For me, "my people" are at home. The transactional work relationships do nothing for me on a human or social level. It's like when a pretty waitress is nice to you, it means little since she is paid to be nice.
whereas I generally like people. You say: "The transactional work relationships do nothing for me on a human or social level" perhaps the mistake you are making is seeing any interaction with the people at work as purely transactional - or being absolutely determined to keep it that way.
I have a family and kids and friends. But I absolutely have friends who I have made at work as well. I quite regularly go out for a beer with people I worked with in the 1990s.
Here's the problem. If I talk with my friends and misspeak or say something I don't mean, worst case is I lose the friendship. At work I lose my livelyhood. That means I have to have a constant cognitive overhead at all times at work, I am unable to explore ideas that don't fit into that narrow box. If your life fits entirely into the confines of polite society maybe you don't have this worry, but I can't bring my full self into these situations and that makes it feel transactional to me.
The narrow workplace acceptable box is full of activities and thoughts that I'm long bored of. That means workplace interactions will be boring by definition.
Everything except politics, religion, sexuality, drug use, firearms, philosophy and your ambitions in life (unless they are die working here).
You also don't want to bring up things like playing video games too much, or going out for drinks too often, unless people get the wrong impression about you. Getting too personal about issues you are facing in life also can be career limiting.
I'm pretty sure I know about the sexuality of my coworkers - not something that come up as a matter of conversation much, just gets mentioned in passing and most of the company has pronouns in their e-mail signatures, now so that's gender sorted. Firearms doesn't come up because I'm in the UK. Yes, I know about the ambitions of most, and who is thinking of resigning in a month or so. I think I'm the onlly gamer and people think it's highly amusing that I watch Twitch streams in my late 50s, but hey.
Sure, I'd tend to avoid politics and religion - but those are hardly massively limiting constraints.
I had to work from home fulltime like everybody else. I liked it at first, after a few months however I hated it. I put on weight, I missed my colleagues and being a manager of 2d zoom faces is extremely different from managing real people. Not to mention all the energy lost on misunderstandings or lack of time to properly convey communication that takes a simple glance at each other in real life. I'm far from an exception or a bad apple as the article puts it.
Remote work is definitely a flexibility and fulltime option that makes sense, a new string to our bow of accommodating the workforce. But it cannot be all, we need offices, I don't want to be alone at home with 2d zoom faces, I want humans. If there are people that like it, good for them, but heck I don't, and I can assure you I'm not alone.
It's hard to believe that quitting the job of head of marketing in a company for examining returned items from Amazon is an improvement at all... If this is what it means, I'm glad with my current job :-D.
