brooklynrob

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by brooklynrob 8y ago
This happened where I live in Brooklyn to make way for the Barclays Center. New condos, without so much as the paint dry, as well as townhouses and commercial buildings, were labeled as blight to rationalize the crooked eminent domain proce
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by brooklynrob 9y ago
Nor was FEMA, or at least its "FEMA Tech Corps". And the incredible civic hackers who started w/ Harvey and are STILL at work now as Nate makes landfall? The big tech companies couldn't make time or money to give them a
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by brooklynrob 9y ago
That's the right approach. The question is whether you can keep enforcing that - sticking to the product roadmap and release plan - if/when a large software company becomes a "customer" of your open source project. That&
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by brooklynrob 9y ago
Yes, and hence my suggestion to him. But this is also why I introduced my only vaguely related example of the large search engine company who wanted me to work for free to help them organize 30-40 school events for Hour of Code -- a big und
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by brooklynrob 9y ago
Yes. That sounds reasonable. The problem comes that, as with many things, people like to live others' values for them. People become unreasonable. My friend was worried that he'd lose the respect, unreasonably in my view, of the c
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by brooklynrob 9y ago
That's exactly the situation I described in my long comment a second ago. It's also worth point out that it's not always as simple as reviewing/testing PRs and accepting them (which also takes time). Sometimes prioritizi
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by brooklynrob 9y ago
Glad to see other ideas and operating models being proposed and tried. Most of us live in countries where you need money to pay rent and buy food. Unless you're already wealthy, that means you need to work (trade time for money) or fin