Why I turned my back on FOSS
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He got turned down for a lot of jobs (in shitty ways) despite having published some reasonably successful open-source libraries? How is open source to blame for him not getting a job exactly?
Edit: Of course, I have no real insight into this person's mental state, it just pattern matched for me with long circuitous paranoid emails a schizophrenic friend of mine used to send me.
I just hope the author does not take his life, his thoughts are barely coherent and this entire gist is disturbing.
If you are the author and you are reading these comments, hear this: mental illness is a serious condition that can quickly degrade your life to nothing. It is not unbeatable. Just seek medical examination explaining your situation. If your joy of development is back it may mean your worst part of the episode is already over, and with assistance you will be back on track much sooner. Good luck!
Or the guy was drunk/high while writing this, dunno...
In the past several years, I encountered a mild form of "holy shit, a lot of stuff that was intuitive and natural just got hard for me because stress and other factors." Circumstances changed, and I pulled out of it, but I could have just as easily augered in.
It's probably going too far to wish that everyone here can experience a short-lived, non-catastrophic, empathy inducing mental health scare.
[1] https://github.com/ellzey/libevhtp [2] https://chromium.googlesource.com/external/github.com/ellzey... [3] http://patents.justia.com/inventor/mark-ellzey-thomas
Sounds harsh but what I'm trying to say is you have to take care of yourself or no-one else will.
Sadly, that's one of the risks of releasing code under permissive licenses: it effectively no longer belongs to you. You may think that you're OK with that (like the author originally did), but human nature is likely to curb stomp you when you do lose that control.
With that said, some people just don't work in a team but on their own they can do miracles. I wish we could start a small pateron or flattr fund for these guys and let them do whatever they want. While there would be no immediate ROI, the world be a much more interesting and fun place to live...
Well, this particular author is the creator of libevent, so there's probably enough ROI already.
Summary seems to be that his open source libraries are very widely used but he couldn't find a job in the Valley and became homeless.
I understand "Unicorn" and "Wizard", but what the hell is "Wheel Throwing"?
Wild (personal opinion, though many corporate would see the same https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/125894?v=3&s=360), erratic(see post and his GitHub history) communication; You can be the fanciest rocket science software coder, but i'm not surprised he has an employment issue. (do not read this as, i think its correct he has an employment issue)