2/ OSS makes this palpably obvious because it's easy to say, "this dev is a dick, I'm out." If you do that at your job, you suddenly don't have income. What you can perceive in those two contexts are very, very different.
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3/ Because there are few barriers to collaboration in OSS, you end up working with a lot of different people. Sometimes, you'll come across great communities that change you.
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@rubyonrails circa '07. It felt like@dhh et al. were building a community. Hell, I haven't coded ruby in >5 years, but if I ran into _why, I'd earnestly ask him to share a beer. The key point: I got more into@rubylangorg *because of the people*.Show this thread -
5/ Not so shockingly,
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7/ Critically, this OSS experience translates. - I would love to work with or for someone like
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@doctorow's Walkaway RN and it had a great line for this. > She found videos of Skinner-trained pigeons who'd been taught to play piano through food-pellet training and pointed out that everyone who liked this envisioned himself as the experimenter -- not the pigeon. - End of conversation
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Wait, really? I didn't know that last part. Point me in the right direction?
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I moved out to SV last September. I've been stunned by how the satirical lack of awareness portrayed on the HBO show isn't really satire. But, the apolitical stuff is wild. "But, everyone trying to make money avoids politics." Okay, but -- SV gets to control the convo directly...
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