What It's Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project. Okay, okay.
This is enough. Both. Thanks for calling for a de-escalation, that sounds like a wonderful idea. First things first, bullying is not always conscious. You seem to imply that and I happen to believe that is not true. This point has been made over and over again: Someone with such a large audience and such a public channel has a certain responsibility. And that responsibility is that they can't afford the same boorishness and low brow-ness on their e.g. public twitter channels.
It may have been only one tweet per person by three people, but they happened to be high-profile enough to spread it far and wide. Node, Twitter, and Apologies. 23 January 2013 Soooo there's this thing: First of all, unequivocally, I said it before, and I'll say it again: I'm sorry, and feel terrible that I made someone feel terrible.
@harthur, I felt bad yesterday, and I'm feeling bad again. Not that it helps you that I feel bad. But I don't like making other people feel bad. Tl;dr TL;DR: I am sorry. The why. What It's Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project. Yesterday my colleague mentioned that a script I wrote was getting a lot of attention on Twitter.
This particular project was something I wrote a couple years ago to help me out with a workflow. Being Wrong on the Internet - David Cramer's Blog. First, some context.
I forget how, but a GitHub project came across my Twitter stream. I clicked into it, immediately to see it was something that I disagreed with (on its intent). In turn, I posted something on Twitter. Nothing extremely offensive, but nothing nice. The exact contents of the tweet were: Ever wanted to make sed or grep worse? Realistically, what I was suggesting is “this is a bad idea”. The Twitter Effect One might argue that I should only criticize something if I’m willing to give positive (proper?)
It is extremely difficult to convey thoughts on Twitter. False Behavior The reason I’m writing this post is not actually because I got mixed up into this conversation. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if there was a strong undercurrent of misogyny involved here, motivating their incivility and rudeness. Let’s get some more context in here. Tl;dr To people like Heather, criticism (good and bad) comes every day. I'm sorry. Prince of Persia Source Code, Open Sourced! Before Prince of Persia was a best-selling video game franchise and a Jerry Bruckheimer movie, it was an Apple II computer game created and programmed by one person, Jordan Mechner.
Not only is Prince of Persia now available as a paperback and ebook, but the source is now on GitHub! The original Prince of Persia source code recently “just turned up” after being lost for 22 years. Jordan Mechner and two stalwart companions dedicated most of a day and night extracting the source and posting it on github. His friend Jamie — who knows the term “source code” primarily as the title of the movie Jake Gyllenhaal did after Prince of Persia — looking as confused as before, asked “Why?!?”
Why the source code? Why spend a whole day trying to recover data from some ancient floppy disks? “Because if we didn’t, it might have disappeared forever.” Source on GitHub – Blog Post – Image by Jason “Textfiles” Scott. The 10 Most Important Open Source Projects of 2011. Well, here we are, another year almost done for.
Time to look back and take stock of the year that was. You know what? It turns out that 2011 was a banner year for open source projects. So much so, that picking the 10 most important was pretty difficult. So what do I mean by "important," anyway? So to judge importance, I looked at projects that are influential, gaining in popularity, and/or technical standouts in new areas.
Hadoop Hadoop Logo Without a doubt, Hadoop has had a fantastic year. Hadoop is being used and/or supported by almost every enterprise player. Hadoop isn't new, of course, but this year it really seemed to take off as an industry standard. Git Speaking of ubiquity, how about that Git, huh? Git isn't just a popular tool, it's the foundation of one of the most popular gathering spots around the Web for open source development: GitHub.
Cassandra Was 2011 the peak of noSQL as a buzzword, or was that 2010? LibreOffice OpenStack Few projects have taken off quite like OpenStack. Open source opportunities. Selling open source apps - Zach Waugh. I've been thinking for a while that the app store – both Mac and iOS – might be the perfect way to make money creating open source apps.
For the average user, they don't care about the code. They don't know what open source is, and couldn't care if it's written in Cocoa or Flash or Java1. They buy an app that solves a problem, and that's it. Other developers can dig a little deeper, and look at the source, either to learn from, or customize the app for their own purposes. It looks like LiveReload is currently proving this model can be successful.