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You should work on actual problems, then not only will the technical challenges be interesting, but the result delivery and client satisfaction challenge will b

by xwolfi 5y ago

You should work on actual problems, then not only will the technical challenges be interesting, but the result delivery and client satisfaction challenge will be too !! Don't you dream of doing work that people actually use ?

exdsq 5y ago
I donate a lot of money to charity (>10% a year) - that’s my way of having an impact. If I can make that money working on cool tech problems and without scamming people then I am very happy. If the tech also becomes useful then that’s awesome, that’s just added to the upside. If it doesn’t, well I’ve done a lot more good with my career than if I took a lower paying job to make some web app slightly more performant for people to buy sweaters.
- xwolfi 5y ago
  Dude if you weren't busy scamming them, that'd be one less source of adversarial financial risk and you may not have to throw some crumbs at them. Charity is when the taxpayers failed :( And I'm glad at least you helped people buy clothes, that sounds more rewarding than selling them debt and misery :) And I've sold personal loans, I know :D
  - exdsq 5y ago
    I don’t scam people and I don’t work for projects that scam people. No one I know scams people. Some projects and people might, sure, but I’m not part of that. If I knew of a scam I'd be very vocal about it.
    - xwolfi 5y ago
      Well for instance you may work on an artificial means of exchange that derives value from marketing to its member that they'll get rich if only they convince more people to use it. It's like working as a food expert at Herbalife. Sure it must be interesting to invent new receipe, but can you really Van Braun your way out of what misery you're helping produce just because it s fun to optimise the Haskell compiler ? Another way to say it: project yourself 5/10 years in the future and the entire thing collapsed. Everyone knows where you work and what you contributed to: was it worth it, net? Did you learn more than the suicide rate of the people losing their savings cost ? You can leave now, imagine you're an employee of Theranos a year before Carreyrou.

by xwolfi 5y ago

exdsq 5y ago

I donate a lot of money to charity (>10% a year) - that’s my way of having an impact. If I can make that money working on cool tech problems and without scamming people then I am very happy. If the tech also becomes useful then that’s awesome, that’s just added to the upside. If it doesn’t, well I’ve done a lot more good with my career than if I took a lower paying job to make some web app slightly more performant for people to buy sweaters.

xwolfi 5y ago
Dude if you weren't busy scamming them, that'd be one less source of adversarial financial risk and you may not have to throw some crumbs at them. Charity is when the taxpayers failed :( And I'm glad at least you helped people buy clothes, that sounds more rewarding than selling them debt and misery :) And I've sold personal loans, I know :D
- exdsq 5y ago
  I don’t scam people and I don’t work for projects that scam people. No one I know scams people. Some projects and people might, sure, but I’m not part of that. If I knew of a scam I'd be very vocal about it.
  - xwolfi 5y ago
    Well for instance you may work on an artificial means of exchange that derives value from marketing to its member that they'll get rich if only they convince more people to use it. It's like working as a food expert at Herbalife. Sure it must be interesting to invent new receipe, but can you really Van Braun your way out of what misery you're helping produce just because it s fun to optimise the Haskell compiler ? Another way to say it: project yourself 5/10 years in the future and the entire thing collapsed. Everyone knows where you work and what you contributed to: was it worth it, net? Did you learn more than the suicide rate of the people losing their savings cost ? You can leave now, imagine you're an employee of Theranos a year before Carreyrou.