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Big talk from an organization that not even three years ago had an article with this line: "At my company, ... [w]e, quite literally, think only about ourselves

Big talk from an organization that not even three years ago had an article with this line: "At my company, ... [w]e, quite literally, think only about ourselves and our personal profit. "

mikeiz404 5y ago
For more context I believe this is the article the quote is from: https://m-cacm.acm.org/magazines/2019/11/240379-the-benefits-of-indolence/fulltext https://m-cacm.acm.org/magazines/2019/11/240379-the-benefits... At my company, Zerocracy, we practice a #NoAltruism policy. We, quite literally, think only about ourselves and our personal profit. This might sound a bit harsh. Isn't it better to play nice and try to appease your clients? In an ideal world, maybe. But here's what we have learned about clients: they also practice #NoAltruism. Clients want to keep costs low, and if they can, they will pass costs onto outside companies. That's why we decided to "get lazy" and only do what we are paid to do. We won't go out of our way to improve a project, refactor, or fix code unless we are getting paid for it.
- nomdep 5y ago
  Words by the CEO of Zerocracy, a Russian company
  - mistrial9 5y ago
    it is not illegal or unethical to be a Russian; that means doing things that people do, like publish papers or try to be influential to other thinking people. Vilification of an opponent is yet another ugly aspect of this man-made disaster occurring now.
DonaldPShimoda 5y ago
> Big talk from an organization It's not an organization — it's Moshe Vardi. Communications is essentially a venue for editorials targeted at members of the ACM. Publications in Communications do not necessarily reflect the values of the ACM itself as an organization. (Publications in Communications are also not peer-reviewed.) This is evident even just from the text of the linked article, considering the author explicitly calls out the ACM for failing to consider what he believes to be important issues: > I have seen practically no serious discussion in the ACM community of its relationship with surveillance-capitalism corporations. For example, the ACM Turing Award, ACM's highest award, is now accompanied by a prize of US$1 million, supported by Google.

Big talk from an organization that not even three years ago had an article with this line: "At my company, ... [w]e, quite literally, think only about ourselves and our personal profit. "

mikeiz404 5y ago

For more context I believe this is the article the quote is from: https://m-cacm.acm.org/magazines/2019/11/240379-the-benefits-of-indolence/fulltext https://m-cacm.acm.org/magazines/2019/11/240379-the-benefits... At my company, Zerocracy, we practice a #NoAltruism policy. We, quite literally, think only about ourselves and our personal profit. This might sound a bit harsh. Isn't it better to play nice and try to appease your clients? In an ideal world, maybe. But here's what we have learned about clients: they also practice #NoAltruism. Clients want to keep costs low, and if they can, they will pass costs onto outside companies. That's why we decided to "get lazy" and only do what we are paid to do. We won't go out of our way to improve a project, refactor, or fix code unless we are getting paid for it.

nomdep 5y ago
Words by the CEO of Zerocracy, a Russian company
- mistrial9 5y ago
  it is not illegal or unethical to be a Russian; that means doing things that people do, like publish papers or try to be influential to other thinking people. Vilification of an opponent is yet another ugly aspect of this man-made disaster occurring now.

DonaldPShimoda 5y ago

> Big talk from an organization It's not an organization — it's Moshe Vardi. Communications is essentially a venue for editorials targeted at members of the ACM. Publications in Communications do not necessarily reflect the values of the ACM itself as an organization. (Publications in Communications are also not peer-reviewed.) This is evident even just from the text of the linked article, considering the author explicitly calls out the ACM for failing to consider what he believes to be important issues: > I have seen practically no serious discussion in the ACM community of its relationship with surveillance-capitalism corporations. For example, the ACM Turing Award, ACM's highest award, is now accompanied by a prize of US$1 million, supported by Google.