Arslanlar Şehri

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So let me tell you something that happened to me. I had, in one of my classes, built an interface to GOCR (not Jack Black’s band but the Gnu Optical Character Recognition project). This was a while ago. It was in C and it was shitty. I mean really shitty. I didn’t even open source it. The teacher liked it though, maybe she still uses it, I don’t know. Whoop de doo, right? I made a GUI to a command line tool.

Fast forward 2 years. I’m out of college and it’s a bad market for developers. I show up for an interview with a company I had no idea was even into software. I show up in khakis and a button down shirt. Everyone else is in double breasted suits. I figure I’m screwed. But when I get into the interview, we started talking about open source and–wouldn’t you know it–GOCR! The woman who interviewed me had used it on a project and started complaining about the command line. So I told her what I had done and talked about the algorithms and how it recognizes characters. I told her why my interface was so crappy. I got the job and I’ve been working there three years–they even allow me to do crazy research stuff at work!

Did I directly make money working on open source? No. But I think I got the job just on that conversation. I kinda wished I had checked in that interface as I’m sure it’s lost somewhere on the university network now. What if she had actually used it?
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