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0 pointsgain_sky7y ago0 comments

I'm sure it is an interesting problem, but what happens when the majority of our technical talent goes towards solving useless but "interesting" problems?

Look at the engineers credited at the bottom of the article: "graduate of Carnegie Mellon University with a degree in Computer Science", "Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley", "Ph.D. in statistical machine learning from Duke University" these are some extremely intelligent and educated people but they are using their skills to help you choose between Chinese food and Indian?

We've already seen this situation described as the "Internet of Stuff Your Mom Won’t Do for You Anymore” and stuff like this doesn't really help. I really think that innovation is dead in silicon valley, its more about catering to needs of nerdy man-boys with lots of money to blow.

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TeMPOraL7y ago

> I really think that innovation is dead in silicon valley, its more about catering to needs of nerdy man-boys with lots of money to blow.

I disagree. I think it's about catering to the needs of normals with lots of money to blow. The only nerdy aspect here is this post. The product itself? Totally for smartphone-using normies.

gain_skyOP7y ago

Its 2018, normal people do not have money to blow. The "normals" are the ones delivering your food, driving you around, doing your laundry, walking your dog, cleaning your house etc.

TeMPOraL7y ago

The "normals" are also people working in management, marketing, and other high-paying professions. SV might have extremely high density of tech people, but programmers are not the only (or even the majority of) high-earners in the West.

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0 pointsgain_sky7y ago0 comments

I'm sure it is an interesting problem, but what happens when the majority of our technical talent goes towards solving useless but "interesting" problems?

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TeMPOraL7y ago

> I really think that innovation is dead in silicon valley, its more about catering to needs of nerdy man-boys with lots of money to blow.

I disagree. I think it's about catering to the needs of normals with lots of money to blow. The only nerdy aspect here is this post. The product itself? Totally for smartphone-using normies.

gain_skyOP7y ago

Its 2018, normal people do not have money to blow. The "normals" are the ones delivering your food, driving you around, doing your laundry, walking your dog, cleaning your house etc.

TeMPOraL7y ago

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