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You might find this hard to believe, but I find that helping other people is genuinely rewarding all by itself. And it’s rewarding in a way that money can’t buy
by LeonB 2y ago
You might find this hard to believe, but I find that helping other people is genuinely rewarding all by itself. And it’s rewarding in a way that money can’t buy.
Stack Overflow helped it to scale really well, too. You could answer a question, just once, and over time it could help dozens then hundreds then thousands of people.
It’s easy to be cynical, but actually that was really awesome.
- belter 2y agoAs I said above, your argument has nothing do to with the point I was trying to make. You call it cynical I call it 1.8 Billion.
- keybored 2y agoYeah I haven’t seen anyone in this thread being able to fit the square of selfless contribution to the developer knowledge pool with the for-profit round hole of StackOverflow.
- davidcalloway 2y agoI sometimes feel this way even about Google maps. On some level when I make a small contribution I'm aware that everyone doing so profits Google quite nicely. But then again, I think that I've profited quite a bit from having Google maps as a resource, far more than the contribution I've made. It feels much better to look at the fact that it's a place that people help share information useful to each other, which happens to profit a large company, than to only focus jealously on the fact that said large company has hit upon a way to monetize the sharing of this information. Both things are true, and whether you think it's great or horrid really is a matter of perspective.
- keybored 2y ago> You might find this hard to believe, but I find that helping other people is genuinely rewarding all by itself. And it’s rewarding in a way that money can’t buy. So Jeff took that money instead.