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Well you can't deny that their developers probably take on some pretty novel and interesting challenges.
by dclowd9901 13y ago
Well you can't deny that their developers probably take on some pretty novel and interesting challenges.
- acchow 13y agoWhat kind of challenges? Please elaborate.
- joezydeco 13y ago"The problem space we tackle is wildly diverse and growing every day. We enable the discovery of new financial relationships and strategies in capital markets. We uncover fraud rings and cyber attacks. We develop strategies for optimizing home lending default strategies. We are not domain experts; we are problem solving experts." http://www.palantir.com/careers/OpenPosDetail?id=a0m80000000gtfMAAQ http://www.palantir.com/careers/OpenPosDetail?id=a0m80000000...
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 13y ago> We are not domain experts; we are problem solving experts Eeek!
- thenipper 13y agoSounds like my granddad's job he had in the 30s. He was a troubleshooter. It wasn't a euphemism.
- rollo_tommasi 13y agoOut of curiosity, what sparked this reaction? Is "problem solving" a euphemism for technical drudge-work? Glorified IT contracting?
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 13y agoBecause it seems to emphasize doing over thinking. Maybe not a bad idea, but in the context of the comments about blackwater, immoral and illegal things, and indoctrinating fresh grads it sounded spooky.
- brown9-2 13y agosomething that isn't marketing recruitment speak would be more illuminating.
- dclowd9901 13y agoI was thinking since they are probably on the fringes of legality, but with government sign-off, they probably get a lot of free reign to solve problems you typically wouldn't delve into, for fear of legal backlash. So basically you become a legal hacker. That would be kinda neat, and appealing, from a geek perspective.
- w1ntermute 13y agoYou could say that about a lot of immoral/unethical jobs.
- wslh 13y agoYes: solving drug trafficking routes with several constraints, making the best scams, exploiting vulnerabilities to install a botnet. All are very interesting challenges.
- scarmig 13y agoDrug trafficking is a relatively honorable occupation that delivers a highly demanded consumer good that's affordable for a broad cross section of society. It's unfair to compare it to the Stasi or consumer scams.
- freehunter 13y agoExcept for all the people killed by the gangs involved in smuggling this highly demanded consumer good that's affordable for a broad cross section of society across the borders.
- CamperBob2 13y agoThose are all consequences of illegality, not of the trade itself.
- bigiain 13y agoNot just immoral/unethical jobs either - but sometimes other jobs which some classes of people consider "less desirable". It's the social network guys these days, but back in the late '90's I learnt more about large-scale highly-available and secure web development from people working in the porn industry than anywhere else. (I remember a long and fascinating/educational series of conversations with Sudicide Girls tech people at the Open Source Convention in San Diego back in 2000 or 2001.)