I fully agree with the article. I'm much more productive when I don't think about potential future users of my obscure little projects. It's also so much easier to deploy because it targets one environment.
There is this quote that I can’t find by Tarantino, basically saying he did the movies all for himself thinking there has to be other people like me out there. I cannot be the only guy who’s weird the way I am.
PS: if anyone knows the source please share. I think it was in an interview.
One of the reasons why Adam Sandler movies are so terrible is because he doesn't make them to make squillions in an international release. He makes them as an excuse to goof off with his buddies. (Hence why Spade and Schneider tend to appear.) Any profit he makes off people who are into the result is gravy.
It seems a bit selfish but there is some additional rational for this...
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."
-Richard Feynman, Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle
Just know if you are designing software to protect a life be willing to test it on yourself first. After all, "I am the Only User"
All I can do is repeat myself, in your case, you care how others are using your software, so you are building it for them and you want to make sure that they use it in the correct spirit. This is what the GPL is for.
However due to the weird economy of software. Research costs are quite high. but manufacturing and distribution are about as close to zero as you can get. It is very possible to say "I built this for myself, but because it is easy to do, you can use it if you want". In this case you don't care about once it leaves your hands, once someone else gets it your part of the process is over. This is what the BSD style licenses are for.
Every engineer needs to be a little bit product designer. Narrowing scope to something specific and measurable is critical or projects just go on forever…
I feel like we think “I’m not at work so I can skip all that stuff.” And then we suffer for it.
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I fully agree with the article. I'm much more productive when I don't think about potential future users of my obscure little projects. It's also so much easier to deploy because it targets one environment.
PS: if anyone knows the source please share. I think it was in an interview.
[0] https://www.unilad.com/film-and-tv/quentin-tarantino-makes-h...
Edit: found it, it appears to be ripped from his masterclass
https://twitter.com/fiendformojitos/status/16111646188895641...
Edit: sorry, didn't mean to sound like the Tarantino quote doesn't exist, they've probably said similar things.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." -Richard Feynman, Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle
Just know if you are designing software to protect a life be willing to test it on yourself first. After all, "I am the Only User"
If you are building the thing for others, you obvously care about what and how others will use the software, so use the GPL.
When you are building it for yourself, it does not matter how others use the software, go ahead and use a BSD license.
However due to the weird economy of software. Research costs are quite high. but manufacturing and distribution are about as close to zero as you can get. It is very possible to say "I built this for myself, but because it is easy to do, you can use it if you want". In this case you don't care about once it leaves your hands, once someone else gets it your part of the process is over. This is what the BSD style licenses are for.
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I feel like we think “I’m not at work so I can skip all that stuff.” And then we suffer for it.