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dotJS 2012 - Fat - What Is Open Source & Why Do I Feel So Guilty?

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  • Presented by Jacob Thornton, co-creator of Bootstrap
  • Linked in the descriptionSlides on fat.github.com
  • An opinion. It argues one side of a question engineers disagree on.

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Jacob Thornton discusses the expectations, obligations, and burnout associated with maintaining popular open source software like Bootstrap.

Filmed in Paris on Nov 30th, 2012. More talks on dotconferences.eu Slides: fat.github.com/slides-os-guilt/

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What people say. Recommended as an inspiring and humorous talk on the realities and psychological toll of open source maintainership.

johncoltraneon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Symbiotic Languages [video]”

I was there. Jeremy's talk was very inspiring. Among the top three of the day, easily. Fat's talk ( link to this video ) was the funniest and Mathias Bynen's ( link ) was the most instructive.
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nunobritoon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Ask HN: How do prolific programmers go about their daily lives?”

Maybe relevant to watch this video for a first hand report of burnout from a coding rockstar: link to this video From personal experience think that programming pretty much crashes and destroys your personal life when you really, really want to go above the rest. Everything changes, except you and your computer. That's how I feel anyways. Don't sleep much and pass every waking hour on and off solving some coding problem. I remember when there was no computers. Existed more beer, fun and happiness. But at the same time didn't felt as happy as getting something epic solved. Maybe one day it looks as it is all worth. Maybe. Enjoy your life OP, you only get one.
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stdbrouwon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Anonymous Open Letter to the Ember.js Core Team”

…boorish "dude, it's open source, just fix it yourself will ya" responses.) It makes me wary of pushing any of my projects. I still open source pretty much everything I do, but usually with a big fat "for your edification, don't expect any support or ongoing development" disclaimer. (Also see fat's "What Is Open Source & Why Do I Feel So Guilty? at link to this video )…
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