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> lots of parallels to HFT. Including the fact that it might make its practitioners rich, while creating nothing of social value.
In the case of ads, arguably negative social value.
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> How did that saying about "brightest minds working on ads" go? The sentiment is a bit older than ads. It goes: " I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night, who poverty and tatters a…
Some might consider your post to be off-topic or worse a "well, actually" interjection, I found it fascinating to learn the source of the "best minds of my generation" framing. Thanks.
"I’m currently looking for work in a staff or senior staff engineering or data scientist role. If you’ve got interesting technical analysis or optimization problems, please reach out to me and let’s talk." That is probably the best CV I've ever read by accident. You should broaden your job hunt criteria to technical content marketing - seriously! Very rare to possess the skill to tell a story in an entertaining, appr…
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In the case of ads, arguably negative social value.
Connecting people to goods and services they may want or need in a targeted way that tries to make them more relevant seems positive if anything to me.
I would love to see ads that are only relevant to my life instead of penis pills.
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Getting paid $300k / year to work on CRUD apps seems pretty nice to me.
Working in easy or boring stuff for a lot of money is nice if you need it, but miserable if you're an intrinsically motivated person.
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…
1. Hire the best of the best, typically PhD level.
2. Assign them to random crap project that have precious little to do with their specialty and strengths.
3. Assume that if they were smart enough to earn a PhD on topic X, they'll learn quickly how to do work on Y, even if X and Y are completely unrelated.
> Recovering the key was usually instantaneous, but to help people feel like they’d gotten their money’s worth, we’d put on a little animated show like a Hollywood hacking scene with lots of random characters that gradually revealed the right password. and later ... > I’m currently looking for work in a staff or senior staff engineering or data scientist role. If you’ve got interesting technical analysis or optimizat…
Attacking the wetware would have been worthy try :) Would hypnosis work to recover the forgotten password?
He actually tried that without success.
Or did your client remember selecting something really hard in the first place?
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Working in easy or boring stuff for a lot of money is nice if you need it, but miserable if you're an intrinsically motivated person.
If you already do this every day for 1/10th of that compensation with no way out, the misery and boredom are already the norm.
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One can exercise motivation outside of work.
It’s hard to do when you get home with 0 brain power left after working for 8-10 hours straight doing mind-numbing work