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		dagw on March 25, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 41,000,006 reasons why I think we're in a bubble Writing a video sharing app is a lot more fun than writing a software that reduces credit card fraud. I knew a guy who wrote software to reduce credit card fraud and he thought it was great fun with lots cool statistical analysis and data mining problems to play with. And personally I think that sounds a lot more fun than writing video sharing apps.

lubos on March 25, 2011 [–]

this is true. definition of hacker is being always hungry for challenge. nothing to do with being cool... damn, we are freaking introverts, right?

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