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No, why? Why do you look at it that way? Why does anyone beside you have to care about what you do? Just build something for yourself. You will always have th
by hypfer 8mo ago
No, why?
Why do you look at it that way? Why does anyone beside you have to care about what you do?
Just build something for yourself. You will always have things you'd like to build for yourself. You will be in competition with yourself only and your target audience will be yourself.
Market forces do not apply to side-projects, because that's what people do for fun.
Just because there are chess computers, doesn't mean that no one plays chess anymore at home.
- ihaveajob 8mo agoIronically I had a very smart and otherwise reasonable math professor who, shortly after Kasparov lost to Deep Blue, said in class that chess was no longer interesting.
- hypfer 8mo agoI mean I would too be concerned if such a major event _wouldn't_ make people question their assumptions/beliefs/ideas/visions. If you have no reaction at all, you probably weren't paying attention. Eventually though, people _should_ recover and return after having processed the changes. So maybe the professor was still recovering at the time?
- ihaveajob 8mo agoIt's possible. At that time people were talking about Go as the next frontier (that didn't last long). IMO, the game is the same, and for 99.9999% of folks who ever play it, whether a computer can beat the best human is irrelevant in how fun it is to play.
- FpUser 8mo agoIn that sense running competition is no longer interesting since I can jut ride in the car
- RivieraKid 8mo agoIsn't it obvious? The reward that a personal project can generate for you is limited. It's not remotely close to what a successful project would give you - money, fulfillment, social capital, feeling good about yourself, etc.
- hypfer 8mo agoYes but you see, maybe all of that was wrong in the first place? This is just a correction of something that managed to remain in an invalid state for an impressively long time.
- ipaddr 8mo agoIt was wrong to write software you hoped others would use? The entire open source ecosystem works on this idea otherwise there would be no point in sharing and we can move to closed software.
- amelius 8mo agoYeah but we've told ourselves that writing software was some kind of higher mathematics, where in reality it was mostly just plumbing that, surprise, a computer can do too.
- hypfer 8mo ago> It was wrong to write software you hoped others would use? Yes. > The entire open source ecosystem works on this idea otherwise there would be no point in sharing and we can move to closed software. No. The _actual_ open source system consisted of hackers scratching their own itch and sharing the artifacts, because (it was assumed that) sharing is free. So if the work is already done and solved their problem, why not also share it as gift. This remains unchanged. The driving force of FOSS is not "how can I fix someone else's problem". It never has been. Well.. maybe on HN it was different, but that's not "the open source ecosystem". And, yes, maybe some corps have gaslit naive people into believing that they must donate their lives to said corps.