> But instead they feel motivated to work for a big company on long-term useless problems. I remember this opinion also surfacing with the Steve Yegge OSCON 20

> But instead they feel motivated to work for a big company on long-term useless problems. I remember this opinion also surfacing with the Steve Yegge OSCON 2011 presentation[1]. In which he complained about Google, and all the hard working people there, focusing on social media instead of hard problems. There was a good discussion as to why these problems are not in the forefront. [1] http://youtu.be/vKmQW_Nkfk8?t=5m47s http://youtu.be/vKmQW_Nkfk8?t=5m47s Subsequent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2811818 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2811818 http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2011/07/hacker-news-fires-steve-yegge.html http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2011/07/hacker-news-fires-st... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2814032 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2814032