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As a programmer, I don't understand the sentiment in some of these comments. When you're a builder, your job is to control costs (short and long term) while bui
by darkxanthos 14y ago
As a programmer, I don't understand the sentiment in some of these comments. When you're a builder, your job is to control costs (short and long term) while building as rapidly as possible. The returns on cost savings are bounded.
The returns on driving new products has a very high upper bound, if any.
Now some companies hire programmers to be included in that profit driven area of the business, I prefer to work at those places. If you work somewhere where programming is deemed a cost center, well I wouldn't want to work there but I've heard of many companies that have made a sustain able biz out of it.
- darkxanthos 14y agoI forgot to add, this is also the reason I've shifted towards "data science". Still get to code but I also add immensely more value to the business as I experiment to grow profits.
- jordan_clark 14y agoGood point. Everyone wants to be respected and wants to feel like they're able to contribute to the company moving forward.
- darkxanthos 14y agoActually that's a really great point. :D That's really what's happening here. There are all these programmers who desperately want to do something the business highly values. Maybe some of them haven't figured out the optimal intersection between their interests and their businesses. Not everyone cares about this, but HN has a different class of programmer. ;)