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Re:Keyframes: Delivering scalable, high-quality animations t... by echelon on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @12:39PM (#13015757)
> So you got your CS degree, worked for years in IT, passed tough interviews, joined FB, and now you're proud of animating those annoying emojis.

What kind of work do you do?

I'd say this project is much better than your words suggest. It's full of interesting technical problems unique to the domain of animation. That's way more fun than writing a standard CRUD Ruby on Rails web app, at least in my opinion.

And hey, some people are janitors and garbage men/women. Any job in engineering beats that.

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Re:Keyframes: Delivering scalable, high-quality animations t... by clentaminator on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @01:01PM (#13015969)
> Any job in engineering beats that

In what sense? Usefulness to society? Comfort? Pay? I'd argue that the janitors and garbagemen are doing much more of a public good than the proportion of software "engineering" that goes into a social media application, despite any technical smartness behind it.

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Re:Keyframes: Delivering scalable, high-quality animations t... by echelon on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @01:36PM (#13016298)
Comfort and salary. I should have been clearer.
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