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At least in my experience, I donate to groups that do good work but aren't getting paid for it. I wouldn't donate to people who are being paid (quite handsomely
by akerl_ 13y ago
At least in my experience, I donate to groups that do good work but aren't getting paid for it. I wouldn't donate to people who are being paid (quite handsomely, in this case) for their labor. Especially when he's already clarified that GitHub paid him more than he thought his time was worth.
- homakov 13y ago95% of my security research is not paid. I fix gems, libraries, websites etc. Donated money go right there, through beers and coffee I need.
- avenger123 13y agoThis makes sense then for sure. You are giving people that you have helped an opportunity to pay you without having any kind of contract with them. Nothing wrong with that at all.
- orblivion 13y agoPerhaps you could clarify that part in your future posts, to appease the Internet haters on both sides. "I do paid contract work. However I also spend lots of time fixing open source stuff for free. If you want to encourage me to keep doing the latter, here's how to donate."
- akerl_ 13y agoAgreed. If it had said that, I'd not have been concerned by it in the first place.
- patcon 13y agoSome people actively try to think of money as a proxy for appreciation ;)
- justinsteele 13y agoLuckily, he is not forcing you to donate, so you can choose not to. :) He also commented on his site that he "is poor", so it could be that he simply hasn't landed enough gigs @ $400/hr to be in good financial shape yet.
- raganwald 13y agoDonate or don't donate, that's your call. But why are you complaining about him asking for a donation? Why try to "shame" him? What is he doing to harm you?
- kmfrk 13y agoStart-up idea: let Hacker News users pay to berate you for x minutes. There's a clearly huge market.
- MarkTee 13y agoAlthough you'll have some competition: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQFKtI6gn9Y http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQFKtI6gn9Y
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- nealabq 13y agoplus.inyourfacetwit.com, where you have 140 chars to berate anyone, and a whaling-wall for when you really need to get it off your chest. Ad supported. Abusive ads berating potential users are encouraged.
- Intermernet 13y ago20 hours later, domain still not registered... Get on that before someone filches it!
- akerl_ 13y agoNot sure why you're viewing my comment with such hostility. I was mistakenly under the impression that most of his work is contracted / bounty. He's already clarified his reason for accepting donations below, and I understand. I just think the placement/wording was less than ideal.
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- bfish510 13y agoHe's also providing this blog post. Something he doesn't have to do and has taught me something as I try to improve myself.
- ics 13y agoI doubt Egor is being paid for posting these summaries to his own blog for all of us to see. Even if he weren't contributing code to various libraries and applications, these write-ups are a great benefit to everyone else who has yet to be a target.