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I think it is mostly young IT worker recruitment ad, and also a 'Women in technology' angle. I personally wouldn't be too happy if my modest contributions as n

by geodel 10y ago

I think it is mostly young IT worker recruitment ad, and also a 'Women in technology' angle. I personally wouldn't be too happy if my modest contributions as novice described as 'massive improvement for millions of our users'.

recursive 10y ago
How about a modest improvement for millions of users?
softawre 10y ago
You wouldn't be happy if somebody gave you a virtual high five for your work when you were early career?
- GunlogAlm 10y ago
  I'd be happy, but happier if it came without the hyperbole (personally).
- geodel 10y ago
  I guess I remain critical of my efforts. For example, I would not call my sneaky effort to use old veggies and other food items in refrigerator as massive cooking innovation to keep the planet green.
Aeolun 10y ago
I'd be happy to put, "Implemented compression alghorith that saves the company 1.5PB in data transfer a day." on my CV. That's $15000 a day saved on data traffic. You are worth $5M+ per year now (at the same scale).
- Humdeee 10y ago
  But who is exactly? Is she, or are the compression algorithm authors?
  - ff10 10y ago
    Neither. All parties involved seemed to have done their job perfectly well. It's all I can judge from here. Here on HN there seems to be too many assumptions around this blog post.
Ar-Curunir 10y ago
A "modest contribution" is not one that saves 1.5PB of data transferred.