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I'm a programmer who tends to agree. When I see jobs at companies who say crap like "we're revolutionizing the taco space by making it social!", I roll my eyes.

I'm a programmer who tends to agree. When I see jobs at companies who say crap like "we're revolutionizing the taco space by making it social!", I roll my eyes. Yes, what the world needs now is more data streams about individuals' taco-eating habits, produced by people who are distracted from their tacos by their smartphones.

GuiA 14y ago
We're all someone's "social taco space". I don't know what you do exactly, but you work in programming and I'm sure there are people out there who would dismiss what you do as being pointless and say: "Yes, what the world needs right now, as every day people are starving, cancer is killing thousands and children are forced to fight in wars, what we need is more virtual ones and zeros that make the upper middle class richer". If there are people out there who like taking pictures of tacos, and that it brings them joy and delight in any way, then how is it more stupid than anything else in the entertainment business? Being condescending is easy, but not very constructive.
- nathan_long 14y ago
  +1. My comment was really about my personal feeling of what is useful and interesting. I would dismiss the "social tacos" job, but would happily write code to control toy robots. :)
j_s 14y ago
Here is an example pulled from today's 'Who is Hiring', which makes fun of this exact issue then proceeds to spout something that sounds exactly the same to me: > Subscription based social hyperlocal mobile gamified > dating discovery engine with loyalty coupons. For the > enterprise. > > Just kidding. > > We're a stealthy team of product generalists, ML > engineers, and even a neuroscientist filling a hole in > the universe by building software that enriches the > human experience. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4727245 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4727245

GuiA 14y ago

We're all someone's "social taco space". I don't know what you do exactly, but you work in programming and I'm sure there are people out there who would dismiss what you do as being pointless and say: "Yes, what the world needs right now, as every day people are starving, cancer is killing thousands and children are forced to fight in wars, what we need is more virtual ones and zeros that make the upper middle class richer". If there are people out there who like taking pictures of tacos, and that it brings them joy and delight in any way, then how is it more stupid than anything else in the entertainment business? Being condescending is easy, but not very constructive.

nathan_long 14y ago
+1. My comment was really about my personal feeling of what is useful and interesting. I would dismiss the "social tacos" job, but would happily write code to control toy robots. :)

j_s 14y ago

Here is an example pulled from today's 'Who is Hiring', which makes fun of this exact issue then proceeds to spout something that sounds exactly the same to me: > Subscription based social hyperlocal mobile gamified > dating discovery engine with loyalty coupons. For the > enterprise. > > Just kidding. > > We're a stealthy team of product generalists, ML > engineers, and even a neuroscientist filling a hole in > the universe by building software that enriches the > human experience. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4727245 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4727245