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I wonder how people that make super specific things like this their whole career make money. I wonder if they are independently wealthy and just do things like
by nautilus12 6y ago
I wonder how people that make super specific things like this their whole career make money. I wonder if they are independently wealthy and just do things like this for fun
- peterohler 6y agoMost of us have a day job and do this sort of thing for fun. I know that might seem weird to many but I think you will find most open source developers fall into that category.
- jkeiser 6y agoIt's kind of a "continued learning" requirement, a little. Work doesn't always have the problems (or funding for them) that grow you in the right directions. Open source is also a sort of portfolio for many people, I think. Resumes can only tell you so much; code speaks volumes. It pays, just not directly or immediately. Though my first job in Silicon Valley-sized tech was at Netscape, and I got that specifically after writing some big open source patches for Mozilla. So it can sometimes pay more directly.