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>At Google, he found very smart developers who were often assigned mundane tasks like fixing bugs in a Web browser; at Facebook, brainy coders toiled away tryin
by blinkingled 11y ago
>At Google, he found very smart developers who were often assigned mundane tasks like fixing bugs in a Web browser; at Facebook, brainy coders toiled away trying to figure out how to make users click on ads.
I'm not sure those two are equally horrible though - fixing complex bugs requires using lot of skills and the high you get when you finally nail it is nothing to miss.
Getting people to click on ads though - that's genuinely depressing.
- Jonovono 11y agoOk cool, you find one of them enjoyable. He (subject of the article) finds them both terrible.
- blinkingled 11y agoYes, anyone can find anything enjoyable or terrible - but the point I was trying to make was that most hackers enjoy bug fixing by nature and Geohot seems to be exceptional that he despises bug fixing as mundane.
- Cyph0n 11y agoHackers enjoy bug finding or simply building new stuff. Why would they like fixing bugs? Why would any developer enjoy it for that matter? Yes, it's something necessary that all developers should know how to do, but that doesn't make it enjoyable.
- blinkingled 11y agoA nagging bug is ultimately one more thing you don't understand. I don't know about anyone else but as someone who loves to take apart things I don't sleep well when I find there's something out there that I don't understand. Besides bugs are a given if you're building something new and if you don't find them interesting you're not going to fix the most challenging ones. If you ever followed Linux kernel development you'll find many hackers enjoy fixing challenging bugs.