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> I think it's disingenuous to just throw out "take that energy and try to build a company" as an alternative.

As someone who's just read your comment, I'd like to say: calm down, and re-read the parent comment with an open mind. It's dripping with life experience.


One life's experience. Another 47 year-old would say, "Ray Croc started McDonalds in his fifties. You don't need a lot of mathematical thinking to start a company, you need people skills and judgment. But the focus required to fiddle with Brainfuck degrades rapidly as you age.

You can always build another skateboard ride-sharing site with photo uploads and Raspberry Pi integration later. Now might be your best shot at Brainfuck."


Because of their life experience, I wouldn't be so quick to reject either of these fellows' advice out of hand.


Precisely!


I feel like my ability to focus is better now than it was 20 years ago, but my motivation is lower.


... but if it does all three, put a ring on it!


Interesting. The OP got me thinking along the lines of manually tagging salient features of each model (as well as ranking models by salience, either manually or automatically based on criteria related to the object that the model represents).



It reveals the culture behind the infamous "No.", so it's topical.

(And presumably the ban is still in effect.)


FC seemingly goes out of his way to act like an ass, and he got himself banned from a bug reporting tool for it. According to another link in these comments, he was also banned from pidgin's IRC channel, and a friend of mine banned him from his G+ feeds.

FC getting banned from GNOME's bugzilla isn't a GNOME thing, it's an FC thing.


GNOME needs a gadfly like him. Or rather, needed.

If GNOME's developers have truly become indifferent or outright hostile to the needs of actual users, then the project is doomed to irrelevance.


Nonsense. No project, open or closed, needs a non-contributing pain in the ass, injecting his (and it is always his) nonsense into every single discussion, forcing every conversation back onto whatever topic they felt they lost the last time, regardless of existing consensus, regardless of the lack of new information, and regardless of who is actually doing the work.

Also, I'd like to meet people that don't resort to emotional blackmail in order to try and force nerds to provide them free goods or services.

And I'd also like a pony.


His attempt to restore a culture of listening to users is not a non-contribution; it could have saved GNOME.


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> FWIW, I totally agree that just a "No." is bad, entirely understand what it resulted in. However, going after a developer in a bugreport is not tolerable behaviour as well.

So why did you go after him?

(I realize that by "a developer" you meant yourself, not Felipe. I still consider this a fair question.)


I meant Christian Perch, the other story about GNOME Bugzilla. I'm not a developer. I didn't go after Felipe.


Ah, ok. I somehow got the impression from your comments that you were the Olav mentioned in the blog post.


> Bottom line: These people, [whether] they are arrogant, impolite or unsympathetic to users does not refute the fact that they are giving their time to the project.

> GNOME has been under fire since the famous GNOME 3 release and I would understand the remaining developers to be a little touchy on the matter. At some point, you either stop - or you decide: Fuck this - I will just ignore user-input, because it sucks.

To put it bluntly: if they've given up on making what users want, what's so special about their giving their time to the project?

Why should anyone care, other than for fear that the developers will continue to make things even worse?


Have you considered that your day job is a revenue stream that lets you work on the personal projects you want?

If that's the case, then just give yourself permission to make what you really want to make.


I get what you're saying, but having a few scant hours outside of work doesn't really qualify, at least in terms of quality of life. I'm talking about revenue-producing projects that I work on full time, and potentially have enough revenue to hire one or two others onto as well, and then have free time to actually relax.


I can sympathize. Just don't burn out... let yourself code for fun every now and then. :)


Not quite.

http://www.historyofinformation.com/expanded.php?id=3454

When the humanist hand was invented, the prevailing hand for illuminated manuscripts was blackletter. While either is aesthetically pleasing, the humanist hand caught on because it was readable and vastly more ergonomic to write.

Practice some dip pen calligraphy and you'll quickly notice that a humanist hand feels natural, and takes much less effort than blackletter to form beautiful characters.

Blackletter (as an everyday hand) persisted in church manuscripts (and in Germany, perhaps due to a cultural love of precise craftsmanship), but it's not surprising that many monks also adopted humanist: if your job is copying written works by hand, it makes sense to keep your eyes and hands under as little strain as possible.

P.S. What's a "typeface"? ;)


Yes, but when humanist type was invented, humanist script had already been used in illuminated manuscript. Thanks for the provocation though – it prompted me to take a closer look at the history and I think I may have been wrong to bring up the association to early Christianity. Indeed blackletter is the script of early Christianity and humanist script more indicative of the return to antiquity and the resulting cultural revolutions. So, there are actually 3 periods that are evoked by such typefaces – the late Roman and Carolingian eras, the early Renaissance, and the early 20th century's recontextualization of that aesthetic.


> Well, a shiv is a homemade knife-like implement, such as one created and used in a prison environment.

You've clearly never done hard time up at IE6 Zero-Security Penitentiary.


Ha! :)


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