The unnerving thing about running a company is watching all of your personal flaws accidentally become codified in the culture of the organization and come to life three years later as actions of employees you've never really spoken to
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If you're widely copied, you get to see this at the level of an industry.
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True in research too. People make (bad) choices of name, notation, etc, and a century later, millions of students may still be paying the price. Oh to change the sign on the charge of the electron...
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I often think about
@worrydream's observation that releasing open source software *can* be a net negative for the world.4 replies 0 retweets 41 likes -
I see he's been checking my Github again.
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There's a striking parallel in science: releasing papers and data is sometimes net negative, I think. It looks like contributing to the commons, but it's really polluting the commons, sometimes in a subtle way.
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What’s always fascinated me about
@worrydream’s approach is that he avoids the negative impacts of releasing OSS *on the author and the work*. Releasing software risks getting users, and users are a fundamentally conservative force; they resist radical (“breaking”) changes.2 replies 0 retweets 11 likes
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“Areas susceptible to... earthquakes” Oops.
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