Certainly a free software metaphor here, I won't expand on it.
Before you think this is a big bummer, Fans of A Deepness in the Sky might see the upside of this as the equivalent of software archaeology :)
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It's a hard stretch, but always fun scenarios to consider.
I want to work on inter-spaceship trade communication!
I still get emails about Dia when my last patch was 12 years ago. Because apparently I'm on the list of maintainers on Sourceforget.
Hubert Figuière at 2014-10-22T00:44:12Z
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re: blip.tv : the douchiness of cloud companies: we delete all, no warning. See twitpic for a more recent example.
Hubert Figuière at 2014-10-22T00:45:06Z
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Before you think this is a big bummer, Fans of A Deepness in the Sky might see the upside of this as the equivalent of software archaeology :)I wish. Whenever I have to design protocols and format, I'm always thinking about Joshua Calvert, in The Night's Down Trilogy, stumbling upon an old computer system, and having to 1) communicate with it and 2) make sense of the data and its structure.
It's a hard stretch, but always fun scenarios to consider.
I want to work on inter-spaceship trade communication!
Olivier Mehani at 2014-10-22T02:46:19Z
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(dj-related comment/rant follows)
so many great parties and friendly people and great music ..
so many fun times! ..
I used to do quite a lot of djing
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ok might not have made money out of it and am certainly not famous but for me "who got more of what" points scoring isn't something I cared much about
I didn't see it as some kind of career move
for me it was about those special unexpected moments of just experiencing something when fears and barriers are forgotten even if only just for a moment where so much can change and wanting to sure that experience somehow - ok maybe hard to describe ...
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if you have ever experienced such a moment you can't really help wanting to share it somehow!
thats the motivation ..a desire for some elusive kind of shared freedom that can only ever happen unexpectedly but so much can change in those moments of freedom...and some little surprise in the music can often be the trigger....
call me an old jaded raver or hippie or whatever but there are things in life that can't really be described in terms of money or any competitive concept of "success"
so many great parties and friendly people and great music ..
so many fun times! ..
I used to do quite a lot of djing
..
ok might not have made money out of it and am certainly not famous but for me "who got more of what" points scoring isn't something I cared much about
I didn't see it as some kind of career move
for me it was about those special unexpected moments of just experiencing something when fears and barriers are forgotten even if only just for a moment where so much can change and wanting to sure that experience somehow - ok maybe hard to describe ...
.
if you have ever experienced such a moment you can't really help wanting to share it somehow!
thats the motivation ..a desire for some elusive kind of shared freedom that can only ever happen unexpectedly but so much can change in those moments of freedom...and some little surprise in the music can often be the trigger....
call me an old jaded raver or hippie or whatever but there are things in life that can't really be described in terms of money or any competitive concept of "success"
michaelmd at 2014-10-23T16:47:53Z
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