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http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7408 Similarly, when you see me doing things with historical-scale consequences and making it look easy, you’re not seeing the years of practice and effort I put in on the component skills (chopping wood, drawing water). Learning to write well. Learning to speak well. Getting enough grasp on what makes people tick that you know how to lead them. Learning enough about your culture that you can be a prophet, speak its deepest yearnings and its highest aspirations to it, bringing to consciousness what was unconscious before. These are learnable skills – almost certainly anyone reading this is bright enough to acquire them – but they’re not easy at all.
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How do you do it ESR, how do you keep contributing to world changing projects such as that NTP port and, idk, a mail program or whatever, and make it look so easy and also look so good doing it --A real question from a person who is absolutely not ESR
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Citizen Tayne posted:The only comic I read daily is goatkcd i read heathcliff
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"🎵 I know what the hackers are thinking tonight As home through the cyberspace they wander Everyone smiling in secret delight They stare at catb.org and ponder Whatever the mailing list blows this way You can almost hear everyone say I wonder what esr is doing tonight? What merriment is esr pursuing tonight? The ideas in /esr/writings, they never burned as bright I wonder what esr is up to tonight? 🎵"
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Another thing you need to do is actually pay attention to what’s going on around you, at every scale. 99% of the time, you find important things to hack on by noticing possibilities other people have missed. The hard part here is seeing past the blinding assumptions you don’t know you have, and the hard part of that is being conscious of your assumptions.
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George posted:99% of the time, you find important things to hack on by noticing possibilities other people have missed.
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FMguru posted:isnt the vast majority of this guys contribution to nntp just "fixing" nitpicky nonissues? he is the principal contributor to an ntp fork that deletes ntp's useful features :clap:
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Of course he addresses himself to the "dear reader" . Of course he does
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You want to make a contribution Yeah you know We all want to change the world You've got a software solution Yeah you know We all want to change the world But when you talk about disruption Well you can count me out
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fritz posted:http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7408 who has he led. serious q
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Mar 12, 2017 00:45
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George posted:yeah the jokes write themselves drat
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Mar 12, 2017 01:11
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well known model villager eric s. raymon
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oh man this thread has made me so happy gonna eq some stuff, not sure if i still know how, everyone stand back
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The Management posted:seeing esr broke and begging for money makes me happy. he's a terrible person and deserves nothing but misery.
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Mar 12, 2017 08:07
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George posted:yeah the jokes write themselves
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George posted:this warms my heart
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Mar 12, 2017 08:09
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my thread lured out rotor felling blessed 🙏
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Hammerite posted:who has he led. serious q the community, duh
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double ohm seven posted:my thread lured out rotor a good thread
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wb rotor!
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FMguru posted:wb rotor! hello old friend, how are you? also, on topic: esr chose not to sell his VALinux stock. quote:Alas, no. I was too busy trying to change the world to cash out when I should have. and there's very few things in the world that make me happier than this. A smile of an innocent child, a babies laughter, the thought of esr having to buy generic cheerios at the supermarket.
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rotor posted:and there's very few things in the world that make me happier than this. A smile of an innocent child, a babies laughter, the thought of esr having to buy generic cheerios at the supermarket.
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rotor posted:hello old friend, how are you?
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rotor posted:and there's very few things in the world that make me happier than this. A smile of an innocent child, a babies laughter, the thought of esr having to buy generic cheerios at the supermarket. it almost sounds like you've tried to work with him or had an overlapping social circle
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Mar 12, 2017 11:56
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too busy changing the world to make a 5 minute call thats worth 30 million. wow!
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rotor posted:hello old friend, how are you? I've come to like the trader joe's cheetos better than name brand
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eschaton posted:it almost sounds like you've tried to work with him or had an overlapping social circle oh god no power botton posted:too busy changing the world to make a 5 minute call thats worth 30 million. wow! I'm talkin BUSY!!! *updates larping resume*
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Hammerite posted:who has he led. serious q there's this weird split in his history of himself. cathedral and the bazaar was a groundbreaking moment that solidified the community and every hacker knew of the exact date it occurred, but it also faded into history and nobody gives a poo poo about it, which is precisely what he wanted, you see. it wasn't a so-so post-facto description of the movement, it provided the framework lens for which all new philosophies must be examined so the entire open source movement? his leadership. but not like, visibly or anything, you plebe how could you even be so small-minded?
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the cathedral and the bazaar was masturbatory wishful thinking. which is exactly what the world needed in that moment, on the cusp of the dotcom boom. one crappy essay with no footnotes plotted a course for millions of dollars out of VC wallets and into pointless companies with no business model in no particular order:
esr spread manure on the seedbed for an entire generation of failed companies. (in other words, he covered the industry in poo poo.)
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Reminder: The ultimate fate of VALinux was to be purchased in an M&A deal by Gamestop in 2015 after a bidding war which also included Hot Topic as a potential buyer.
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shame on an IGA posted:Reminder: The ultimate fate of VALinux was to be purchased in an M&A deal by Gamestop in 2015 after a bidding war which also included Hot Topic as a potential buyer. Why do companies do this, what would Hot Topic have done with VALinux Edit: oh it became some dumb nerdcore retailer, ok thats pretty on brand
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funko pops and twilight t-shirts are more valuable than commercial Linux
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Also they paid $20/share I haven't looked into potential split/buyback history but if esr really was still autistically clenching his 150k shares he netted 3 million dollars 2 years ago E: did he have real shares or just options to buy at 30 shame on an IGA fucked around with this message at 23:02 on Mar 14, 2017 |
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shame on an IGA posted:Also they paid $20/share I haven't looked into potential split/buyback history but if esr really was still autistically clenching his 150k shares he netted 3 million dollars 2 years ago LNUX IPOed at 14.4 billion, but sold to gamestop for 140 million, 0.9% of its day one value. the best case scenario for esr was earning $300k. given the many, many weird mergers they executed over the years i bet he got less than that
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oh yeah va linux did a 1:10 reverse split in 2006 when they were named "geeknet" so esr's best-case payout was $30k, not $300k 
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