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Does anyone have links to stories that are as good as this? I want to binge blog posts that teach and entertain at the same time.
The author is a very talented applied cryptographer with a very impressive resume (he is looking for new projects). The following CV line stands out however: Google: Software Engineer, Ads Review. June 2014– March 2016. Angular / Java developer on the internal tool used by contractors to review Google ads for policy violations. How did that saying about "brightest minds working on ads" go? I am not blaming the author…
@metaweta: The technical side is interesting, but seems like the admin side would be too; how did the administration and contract side play out? Someone needed to front an estimated $100k of GPU costs, without being sure it would work - and then pay for your work on top; who risked that? You had no proof the claimed Bitcoins inside were real, or as many as claimed. You're in New Zealand(?) and the customer is in Russ…
Attacking the wetware would have been worthy try :) Would hypnosis work to recover the forgotten password?
The author is a very talented applied cryptographer with a very impressive resume (he is looking for new projects). The following CV line stands out however: Google: Software Engineer, Ads Review. June 2014– March 2016. Angular / Java developer on the internal tool used by contractors to review Google ads for policy violations. How did that saying about "brightest minds working on ads" go? I am not blaming the author…
Getting paid $300k / year to work on CRUD apps seems pretty nice to me.
The author is a very talented applied cryptographer with a very impressive resume (he is looking for new projects). The following CV line stands out however: Google: Software Engineer, Ads Review. June 2014– March 2016. Angular / Java developer on the internal tool used by contractors to review Google ads for policy violations. How did that saying about "brightest minds working on ads" go? I am not blaming the author…
I understand and agree with your point but I think this site overvalues CS graduates by a lot. There are bright minds everywhere, doing math, physics, literature, medicine, law and a long etc. That "some" minds, because of greed/need-to-subsistence or whatever the reason choose that path is a shame but hardly a loss in the great scheme of things. Most intellectual pursuits are already fiercely competitive as it is.
The author is a very talented applied cryptographer with a very impressive resume (he is looking for new projects). The following CV line stands out however: Google: Software Engineer, Ads Review. June 2014– March 2016. Angular / Java developer on the internal tool used by contractors to review Google ads for policy violations. How did that saying about "brightest minds working on ads" go? I am not blaming the author…
Looks like the Google job was relaxing enough to complete a PhD in Computer Science in 2015 at the same time.
> Biosimilarity, LLC: Partner. February 2013–May 2014.
Developed a decentralized massively scalable database based on the π-calculus and a secure distributed social network
The author is a very talented applied cryptographer with a very impressive resume (he is looking for new projects). The following CV line stands out however: Google: Software Engineer, Ads Review. June 2014– March 2016. Angular / Java developer on the internal tool used by contractors to review Google ads for policy violations. How did that saying about "brightest minds working on ads" go? I am not blaming the author…
> How did that saying about "brightest minds working on ads" go? I think it goes something like the Open Source saying "that person doesn't owe anyone their intelligence to work on so-called important problems for free, just because it might be nice if they did". Want smart people to solve important problems? Find a way to pay more for that, than for ads, or find a way they don't need to earn money to live at the sta…
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Actually, being involved in ad tech can get you involved in some really cool tech. It's an incredibly fast-paced industry, lots of parallels to HFT. And yes, everyone in the industry knows that ads don't work, you have all the ad blockers, etc.
Why work on something that you know doesn't work and makes the world worse?