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Re: I accidentally Blender VSE

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Post by stuaxo »

PaulHoule wrote: post #10

I’m pretty sure I could have not done this at an “actual job” If there's one thing that's gone wrong in my career is that it's been split between the occasional project where I figure out the math for something that is absolutely unique (and not paid) in which I get more done in two months than I'd usually get done in two years vs projects I get paid to work on where the results I get are basically average. I've neve…

Project management is the death of all that sort of stuff.

Some places have a good system where there are firebreaks where anything can be done for a week or two, which help solve this.

Re: I accidentally Blender VSE

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Post by snvzz »

Night_Thastus wrote: post #2

This is the sort of thing I would love to do to my music player of choice, Musicbee . You know, if it was open source! :( The creator barely touches it anymore, and it's completely free and always has been so I do not understand why it isn't open source. There are so many little nagging issues, little bits and bobs that are broken or slow or just weird that I would absolutely love fixing up in my spare time. And no,…

Here's an alternative: Rewrite the whole thing as open source.

Re: I accidentally Blender VSE

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Post by cowsandmilk »

proaralyst wrote: post #21
hombre_fatal wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I do not understand why it isn't open source. Because your software project then becomes a people management project.

You can have open source without open contributions, eg NetHack and (I think) Sqlite

SQLite has other contributors, just a very curated list of who can contribute.

https://sqlite.org/src/reports

Re: I accidentally Blender VSE

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Post by nox101 »

earthwalker99 wrote: post #23
PaulHoule wrote: post #10

I’m pretty sure I could have not done this at an “actual job” If there's one thing that's gone wrong in my career is that it's been split between the occasional project where I figure out the math for something that is absolutely unique (and not paid) in which I get more done in two months than I'd usually get done in two years vs projects I get paid to work on where the results I get are basically average. I've neve…

You are not alone. I have experienced this my entire life and it has caused me to question everything people say about motivation, such as the idea that profit and wages are the only way to get things done. Then I came across Karl Marx's theory of alienation and things started to make a lot more sense. He started from the observation that work is the main thing that (healthy) people do, but that this should not be co…

I get way more done when i'm self motivated but, the things that I'm doing at work actually need to be done. They are tedious but someone needs to do them.

Say you work on an OS like MacOS, iOS, Android, Windows. tens of thousands of tests need to be written so that you know that updating the OS doesn't break all of your users. Writing those tests, managing the infrastructure to run them all on the various hardware, tracking all of that etc is a huge amount of work. Few people would be self motivated to do it for fun. So, profits and wages it is.

Re: I accidentally Blender VSE

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Post by bhewes »

ykl wrote: post #7

Aras just going around and dropping into various open source graphics projects to produce massive speedups and improvements and then going onto some other random graphics project to the same is my favorite trend of the past few years.

YKL you have a nice body of work.

Re: I accidentally Blender VSE

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Post by nox101 »

snvzz wrote: post #32
Night_Thastus wrote: post #2

This is the sort of thing I would love to do to my music player of choice, Musicbee . You know, if it was open source! :( The creator barely touches it anymore, and it's completely free and always has been so I do not understand why it isn't open source. There are so many little nagging issues, little bits and bobs that are broken or slow or just weird that I would absolutely love fixing up in my spare time. And no,…

Here's an alternative: Rewrite the whole thing as open source.

I actually thought about something like this as both a way to try coding with AI help and to learn some mobile dev. I'm not happy with the default music player on iOS, nor with the one I'm using. I'm only guessing that using ChatGPT and/or CoPilot I could at least get something started pretty quick.

Step 1: A mobile app plays a music file

Step 2: Play, Pause, FF, Rew

Step 3: A list of songs to select from

Step 4: Show album cover

..etc..

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