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Re:Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track S... by AndyNemmity on Friday September 21, 2018 @05:17PM (#18042733)
You just get asked to work on project blah. And you're like okay, what do I do? Figure out this system for them, okay. And you work and focus on the technical details.

I mean, I really appreciate all of you who seem to dig in and dive into the what and why of every system you work on, but I often just do work. I get tunnel vision and do the things I have to do. I don't really care about much outside of that spectrum unless it impacts what I have to accomplish.

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Re:Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track S... by jancsika on Friday September 21, 2018 @09:55PM (#18044046)
Oh, I do that too-- especially those times I have to drill down several layers deep into the ugly undocumented guts of an abstraction some other developer left knots in.

But somehow I never climb back out to find the bug I just fixed is part of a giant censorship machine.

Are you saying there is a greater than zero chance that you've accidentally done work on a similarly unethical system?

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