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rhdxmr | 4 years ago | on: “Open source” is not broken

Oh my goodness.. if open source had not existed in the world, the world must not be as good as today. The world w/o OSS must fall behind the world w/ OSS.

If open source is broken, it must be repaired.

I have contributed to OSS for over 2 years and it makes me feel fun and feel a sense of achievement. And I feel so grateful towards who had contributed to open source and had cultivated open source culture. I received help a lot from OSS and lots of open knowledge from the internet. And now I want to give it back to open source culture and I think I am making the world better a little bit.

rhdxmr | 4 years ago | on: A no-go fantasy: writing Go in Ruby with Ruby Next

I had contemplated to choose which language between python and ruby when I was python noob. At that time I tried both a little bit and I realized ruby had more powerful, rich features than python had. Ruby can handle lots of tasks on behalf of me out of the box so that I can reduce lots of code. So I liked it.

However I had no choice but to use python because it was variously used in practice. I felt it was difficult to persuade my colleagues to use ruby instead of python. Colleagues were not familiar with ruby and there wasn't any ruby project in my company. So I chose python and kept using it for several years. After the decision I didn't try learning ruby because I though they have many characteristic in common and I thought it was meaningless to know both of them, besides I had no time to study it.

It has been several years since I gave up learning ruby, but I still have unresolved feeling about it. Whenever I read articles that highlight the power of ruby, I want to know about it. Haha.. But still there are high prioritized tasks to do. Learning ruby is still remained in the todo list.

rhdxmr | 4 years ago | on: Bye CUPS: Printing with Netcat

What a surprising knowledge. I didn't know that printers support parsing PDF or even ASCII. I considered printers only support printer protocols.

rhdxmr | 5 years ago | on: Draw an iceberg and see how it would float in water

So much fun! I majored in mechanical engineering but I am developing software totally irrelevant with it. This is reminiscent of what I learned in university. I feel fun and curious about the model for simulating this.

rhdxmr | 5 years ago | on: Done Answering Questions Stack Overflow

I personally don't know Gregg Tavares, but I empathize with him.

I also have answered hundreds of questions via tech communities but most of questioners do not thank me and they do not respond to my answers at all. I do not know whether they checked my solution or not.

But I can keep this job as a hobby for many years because I do not expect that questioners thank me at all. I just do it for myself. Actually I do not think that I am helping people online. I consider myself that I am doing this just for fun.

I can learn some lessons even from the silly questions written by the ignorant who do not have any background knowledge. I also have my answering history and I can use it for self promotion when I introduce myself to others.

I even participate in developing some open source projects, but I also do not expect that somebody who like my code offer me a great job or help me improve my code. No one will give me a food on the table.

No devotion, no pain. I just do something online that is fun for me, meaningful and additionally helpful to others.

rhdxmr | 5 years ago | on: The Evolution of a Haskell Programmer (2001)

Haskell is really amusing functional language. But it is hard to find companies which use Haskell to develop interesting program... Of course, there exist some companies in the world, but they are not close to me. I wish more people to get to know that Haskell is really fun, useful and pragmatic.
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