After realizing that, the contrast between working at FB and working on OSS was stark: OSS offered less respect, fewer friends and low pay.
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Replying to @johnmyleswhite
in OSS you need to work to develop deeper relationships with a handful of people
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I guess my counter point was academia where most people didn’t understand me/my work. OSS more rewarding
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I completely agree. Like
@fperez_org says: OSS often achieves the ideals of open science better than science does.1 reply 5 retweets 9 likes -
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in general, OSS can be more idealistic and uncompromising. This cuts both ways: it's hard, but fulfilling.
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few rational employers would want the level of polish that some OSS maintainers hold themselves/others to.
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some of that is knowing that you neither control nor can even see all of your downstream dependencies.
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