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Re:Tiny by movedx on Monday November 29, 2021 @01:46AM (#29377110)
And not actually caring about the problem at hand.

"Dude! We could make so much money if we made X!" - but do you actually care about X? Why is money the only reason people are setting up business and solving problems? It should be secondary, a happy side effect of solving hard problems (which people will thank you for with money.)

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Re:Tiny by vasco on Monday November 29, 2021 @01:59AM (#29377178)
If someone solves a problem of mine because they're motivated by money instead of the problem domain I don't really care.

Are you upset that the gas station operator doesn't have a hobby about gas?

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Re:Tiny by 8n4vidtmkvmk on Monday November 29, 2021 @03:19AM (#29377506)
ppl aren't very good at solving problems they don't have. i imagine it's hard to design a good/efficient gas station if you've never used one before. service reps/tech support aren't very good if they don't use the product. software sucks/is slow to use unless the designers also use it on the daily and feel first-hand what the pain points are.
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Re:Tiny by cole-k on Monday November 29, 2021 @03:42AM (#29377618)
I can jive with the idea that people aren't "very good" at solving the problems they don't engage with, but I think it's important to acknowledge that plain old "good" can be enough.

To wit, I'm not going to be upset if tech support takes 3 minutes to process my question and reads out an answer from a pamphlet in monotone if it is indeed a solution to my problem. And there is some software that I use _despite_ its pain points because it solves problems I have.

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Re:Tiny by movedx on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @07:21AM (#29391326)
> gas station operator

They didn't build the business. They're an employee.

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Re:Tiny by brtkdotse on Monday November 29, 2021 @01:56AM (#29377155)
Because people want to pay their rent and eat. “Hard problems” take a lot of work and time and no one is going to pay me to ponder on a tricky algorithm [1]

[1] actually there is. It’s called “academia” and from what I’m told it’s pretty miserable to be in

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Re:Tiny by educatedfool on Monday November 29, 2021 @04:01AM (#29377701)
Agree. Very hard problems or big investments (e.g. rail network, infrastructure at a country level, basic research with high risk of failure that will take decades) you usually have some form of state agency running it.

PS: have not heard a good word about academia from numerous friends in it. Might be regional (EU) but still...

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Re:Tiny by movedx on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @07:23AM (#29391348)
> Agree. Very hard problems or big investments

Who said anything about hard problems or "big investments"? I never said that. Why are you saying that?

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Re:Tiny by movedx on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @07:23AM (#29391342)
> Because people want to pay their rent and eat.

That's the wrong reason to set up a business, but the right reason to simply get a job.

> “Hard problems”

Who said anything about hard problems? Are businesses only designed to solve hard problems?

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