I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me • Hacker News Board

Re: I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me

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Post by tukantje » Sat, Aug 09, 2025, 9:04 PM UTC

atommclain wrote: post #193

0xpgm wrote: post #142

I'm with Luke Smith [1] when it comes to non-copyleft licenses like MIT. Andrew Tanenbaum of the MINIX fame was similarly surprised to find that Intel had quietly included the OS he wrote in Intel chips, making it perhaps the most widely used OS in the world. He seemed disappointed no one ever reached out to him to tell him about it [2] [1]: https://lukesmith.xyz/articles/why-i-use-the-gpl-and-not-cuc... [2]: https:/…

To intentionally mix metaphors, I can't believe I'm about to knowingly kick this well worn hornets nest. It seems obvious that if Tanenbaum, or any open source project used a GP license in lieu of a permissive legally familiar license like MIT or BSD, the likelihood of the project being used in a commercial product would reduce to nearly zero. Intel would have used a different OS for their management engine. I'm glad…

"GPL or pay" could very well be an option as well.

Re: I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me

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Post by bigyabai » Sun, Aug 10, 2025, 12:27 AM UTC

AndrewKemendo wrote: post #294

pentamassiv wrote: post #27

Hey, I'm the author of the blog post. Thank you for submitting this. If you have any questions feel free to ask and please let me know how the writing was. It's one of my first posts so I'd like to improve

Can you please send me your resume: Andrew@gambit.us

You should list a pay range unless you want to be ignored. Developers aren't going to go out of their way to play your little game without a carrot on the stick.

Re: I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me

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Post by AndrewKemendo » Sun, Aug 10, 2025, 3:25 AM UTC

bigyabai wrote: post #412

AndrewKemendo wrote: post #294

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Can you please send me your resume: Andrew@gambit.us

You should list a pay range unless you want to be ignored. Developers aren't going to go out of their way to play your little game without a carrot on the stick.

How is asking someone to send me a resume a “little game”

Re: I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me

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Post by bigyabai » Sun, Aug 10, 2025, 1:34 PM UTC

AndrewKemendo wrote: post #413

bigyabai wrote: post #412

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You should list a pay range unless you want to be ignored. Developers aren't going to go out of their way to play your little game without a carrot on the stick.

How is asking someone to send me a resume a “little game”

It's literally the employment equivalent of a cold-call. You could not be less attractive to employees if you tried.

Re: I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me

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Post by BriggyDwiggs42 » Sun, Aug 10, 2025, 7:56 PM UTC

In a functioning society, when a company is valued at 65b and uses tech one guy made as a core component in one of its offerings, they’d toss him a million or two, if only to ensure they suffer no consequences later. It’s bizarre he’s got no recourse for something like that.

Re: I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me

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Post by immibis » Mon, Aug 11, 2025, 9:27 AM UTC

johnnyanmac wrote: post #365

mystraline wrote: post #299

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> Some people want others to freely use their software and choose MIT precisely because it's more free than GPL. MIT license is absolutely not 'more free' than the GPL. In fact, MIT means you give up effective ownership and control. You lose control and contributions. And what do you get for that loss of control? Exposure. Or, in this and many other cases similar, you get diddly shit. Some company paracitizes your co…

>MIT means you give up effective ownership and control. You lose control and contributions. And what do you get for that loss of control? Exposure. Or, in this and many other cases similar, you get diddly shit. Isn't that what true freedom is? You can argue that more freedom is a net burden for both the individual and society (tragedy of the commons), but that doesn't negate the aspect of it being more free to begin…

Maximum freedom is when people have the freedom to do everything except take away other people's freedom. When you give people the freedom to take away other people's freedom, you don't get a free society.

Re: I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me

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Post by fgbarben » Wed, Aug 13, 2025, 5:42 AM UTC

pjc50 wrote: post #95

fgbarben wrote: post #78

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This is cope and propaganda to discourage people from developing their own brand. Better for the corporation if the workers have no support structure or reputation that might lead them to quit

"Developing your own brand" is not a scalable solution. There's only ever going to be a few thousand developers who are well enough known to be called a brand.

Looks like you took the cope pill. Not everyone has to be globally recognized.

Re: I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me

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Post by fgbarben » Wed, Aug 13, 2025, 5:44 AM UTC

closewith wrote: post #96

fgbarben wrote: post #78

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This is cope and propaganda to discourage people from developing their own brand. Better for the corporation if the workers have no support structure or reputation that might lead them to quit

> Better for the corporation if the workers have no support structure or reputation that might lead them to quit That's exactly right. > This is cope and propaganda to discourage people from developing their own brand. Not really "cope and propaganda" when it's true, is it?

It's cope and propaganda because that which gives power to the corporation also weakens the person.

Re: I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me

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Post by fgbarben » Wed, Aug 13, 2025, 5:48 AM UTC

motorest wrote: post #221

fgbarben wrote: post #78

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This is cope and propaganda to discourage people from developing their own brand. Better for the corporation if the workers have no support structure or reputation that might lead them to quit

> This is cope and propaganda to discourage people from developing their own brand. This is such a US-centric cliche that it even reads as a parody. No, the man isn't keeping you down.

"Personally, I like to publish nothing and collaborate on nothing outside of work, because I like corpobux more than anything else. I'm too stupid and slow to conceivably make anything worth writing about"