Open Source made me the man I am
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Open Source made me the man I am
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Re: Open Source made me the man I am
#2Great article. I have only just started my own opensource projects (this year) and find it so much more satisfying.
Re: Open Source made me the man I am
#3Good article. If you looking for an idea for your next article I would love to know how you publish your open source code, how you introduce your projects to the first developers? any interesting hack there? or simple post in HN is enough?
Re: Open Source made me the man I am
#4Perhaps it made him a "better" programmer but claiming to have made him a better "man" is a bit exaggerated.
I guess he's super excited about how far he's come and how programming helped him attain a certain level of satisfaction and happiness in his professional life.
Re: Open Source made me the man I am
#5Great article. I have only just started my own opensource projects (this year) and find it so much more satisfying.
if you don't mind what is your project? just curious
Re: Open Source made me the man I am
#6Using and/or contributing to open-source software also means that you help society use its resources in a more economic and intelligent way:
You can invest the resulting savings in projects which will in turn advance society.
Also in this sense you become "a better man".
Re: Open Source made me the man I am
#7I am bootstraping startup which will turn my long time hobby OS project into full-time job. I am almost always tired, cranky and my social life sucks. I think it is safe to say, I would be better man with normal hobby and 9-5 job.
Re: Open Source made me the man I am
#8Perhaps it made him a "better" programmer but claiming to have made him a better "man" is a bit exaggerated. I guess he's super excited about how far he's come and how programming helped him attain a certain level of satisfaction and happiness in his professional life.
>OSS probably made me a humbler developer, too. I know what it means patching even small portions of code and I’m less harsh when posting bugs on others’ repositories.
That's definitely going to spill over into his day-to-day life, looking at my own experience. And such behavior does make you a better person.
Re: Open Source made me the man I am
#9I am bootstraping startup which will turn my long time hobby OS project into full-time job. I am almost always tired, cranky and my social life sucks. I think it is safe to say, I would be better man with normal hobby and 9-5 job.
That's the pressure of a start up rather than the specifics of the project though isn't it?
Going it alone and giving up the security of a steady pay check is going to be hard whether you're setting up a software company or a sandwich shop.
I suspect for every entrepreneur blogging about how being self employed has given them a great work life balance, I suspect there are 20 in the same position as you. It could be that you're not suited to the life but, more likely I suspect, it's just part and parcel of the early stages of setting out on your own.
Re: Open Source made me the man I am
#10Perhaps it made him a "better" programmer but claiming to have made him a better "man" is a bit exaggerated. I guess he's super excited about how far he's come and how programming helped him attain a certain level of satisfaction and happiness in his professional life.
Personally I can't see a path forward for me from high school till now without open source.
I own a home, stock, work a great job, have gotten to travel the world, and do exactly what I want to do for a job. Purely as a result of having the tools and instructional material I needed available libre on the internet.
I can't help but think that without that kind of alternative, dropping out of college would have sunk me for life - I'd probably still be working odd jobs in my hometown and living with my parents, no career, no future, depressed. I could even imagine an alternate present where I had enlisted in the military and gotten deployed.