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Don't Google engineers, with, as we are so often reminded, all that grey matter shooting out of their ears (at such high velocity), have better things to do wit

Don't Google engineers, with, as we are so often reminded, all that grey matter shooting out of their ears (at such high velocity), have better things to do with their time, and their staggering intellectual prowess? Like you know, fixing global warming? Analyzing Ebola mutations? That sort of thing.

MichaelGG 12y ago
Right, because engineers trained on mobile systems and mapping technology should just start "analyzing Ebola mutations". Might as well as why strong construction workers aren't helping "build infrastructure in the third world" instead of building condos for the rich. Ingress is almost definitely an information-collection system to improve mapping technology and determine human walking paths/flow, similar to information we have on traffic on roads. (As well as whatever other benefits Google can mine out of this info.)
- dreamweapon 12y ago
  Right, because engineers trained on mobile systems and mapping technology should just start "analyzing Ebola mutations". The point is that it wouldn't hurt if they would start taking an interest in matters of actual social and economic import. Rather than just (apparently) bro'ing out at 4am and "collecting a lot of XP." And waking up the whole damn neighborhood.
  - TeMPOraL 12y ago
    I can tell you what is even less important than this game. Most of the web development. I mean, do we really need a millionth copy of the same basic CRUD webpage or bullshit webapp just because a small company wants to outcompete another small company on ad revenue? > Rather than just (apparently) bro'ing out at 4am and "collecting a lot of XP." This "bro'ing out at 4 am" will have more "actual social impact" as a side effect of collected data and community created than most of the things programmers write for money. Maybe go pick on web developers. Or sports events organizers. Or tourism industry. It's all bullshit compared to Ebola.
    - dreamweapon 12y ago
      There's just something extra weird about the exuberant level of interest, shown by members of a certain set who (according to their carefully crafted image) are just way incredibly smarter than the rest of us, in projects so utterly trivial.
      - scottlocklin 12y ago
        Maybe someone should come up with an honestly named version of this, "lab rat in maze."

MichaelGG 12y ago

Right, because engineers trained on mobile systems and mapping technology should just start "analyzing Ebola mutations". Might as well as why strong construction workers aren't helping "build infrastructure in the third world" instead of building condos for the rich. Ingress is almost definitely an information-collection system to improve mapping technology and determine human walking paths/flow, similar to information we have on traffic on roads. (As well as whatever other benefits Google can mine out of this info.)

dreamweapon 12y ago
Right, because engineers trained on mobile systems and mapping technology should just start "analyzing Ebola mutations". The point is that it wouldn't hurt if they would start taking an interest in matters of actual social and economic import. Rather than just (apparently) bro'ing out at 4am and "collecting a lot of XP." And waking up the whole damn neighborhood.
- TeMPOraL 12y ago
  I can tell you what is even less important than this game. Most of the web development. I mean, do we really need a millionth copy of the same basic CRUD webpage or bullshit webapp just because a small company wants to outcompete another small company on ad revenue? > Rather than just (apparently) bro'ing out at 4am and "collecting a lot of XP." This "bro'ing out at 4 am" will have more "actual social impact" as a side effect of collected data and community created than most of the things programmers write for money. Maybe go pick on web developers. Or sports events organizers. Or tourism industry. It's all bullshit compared to Ebola.
  - dreamweapon 12y ago
    There's just something extra weird about the exuberant level of interest, shown by members of a certain set who (according to their carefully crafted image) are just way incredibly smarter than the rest of us, in projects so utterly trivial.
    - scottlocklin 12y ago
      Maybe someone should come up with an honestly named version of this, "lab rat in maze."