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I suppose we're going to just gloss over the fact that the primary party benefitting from people publishing their work like this is someone else. Someone else being usually some corp that is happy to pay with exposure instead of money. This is of course a rather cynical read, but the first instance of luck being "Having your OSS library take off" kinda paints this picture for me. Which does make sense I guess, given…
translated from marketing-droid-ese: > greetings peasants! er, sorry, valued open source contributors! > remember, without you feeding us training data, we won't be able to train our AI to replace you at your dayjob! > now, get back to work
The article was written by „Aaron Francis, Marketing Engineer“. I’m not a language purist, but are we really calling people who work in marketing „marketing _enginners_“ nowadays? That seems like going a bit too far with the meaning of engineering…
The article was written by „Aaron Francis, Marketing Engineer“. I’m not a language purist, but are we really calling people who work in marketing „marketing _enginners_“ nowadays? That seems like going a bit too far with the meaning of engineering…
I feel it’s an evolution of the term “Devrel” which still feels tacky. Nor would you want someone who built most of their career as an actual engineer to suddenly drop that term and become a generic someone in “marketing”. They’re more than that for sure. I quite like the terminology the more I think about it. https://github.com/aarondfrancis
I just want to share software with fellow nerds. I don't care about stars, community, getting famous, or getting a job.
It was here back when I wrote it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32071137
Lots of comments talking about how this is just some sort of ploy to feed the machine. I don't know what to tell you. I can only tell you it changed my life and the lives of many others. Hope it can help you too!
Hey! I wrote the article a few years ago. Fun to see it on HN again. It was here back when I wrote it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32071137 Lots of comments talking about how this is just some sort of ploy to feed the machine. I don't know what to tell you. I can only tell you it changed my life and the lives of many others. Hope it can help you too!
Hey! I wrote the article a few years ago. Fun to see it on HN again. It was here back when I wrote it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32071137 Lots of comments talking about how this is just some sort of ploy to feed the machine. I don't know what to tell you. I can only tell you it changed my life and the lives of many others. Hope it can help you too!
Sorry to say, but the article is complete BS. Publishing is only desirable when your work is top-notch ;)
I wrote a few math books. Does it increase my luck? A little bit, here or there. Will I recoup the 1200+ hours working on the project and be paid at least minimum wage for that? No chance.
This is why it’s luck. Putting more out there will increase the probability of a reward, but it doesn’t guarantee it.
I suppose we're going to just gloss over the fact that the primary party benefitting from people publishing their work like this is someone else. Someone else being usually some corp that is happy to pay with exposure instead of money. This is of course a rather cynical read, but the first instance of luck being "Having your OSS library take off" kinda paints this picture for me. Which does make sense I guess, given…
Hey! I wrote the article. Having an OSS project take off changed my life. YMMV
I have a lot that I'd love to share (and let's... charitably... assume it's worthwhile stuff) but would be afraid to start just because of this stumbling block.