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Re:San Francisco, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down by patio11 on Monday July 08, 2013 @09:27PM (#6010540)
Can you describe that in terms of an important system, somewhere, which would not exist but for your contributions? If so, more on that story, less on the technical detail. If on the other hand none of your work ever gets used in anything important, then that's a non-BSy reason to change what you're working on. (Believe me -- been there, done that.)
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Re:San Francisco, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down by ahh on Monday July 08, 2013 @11:25PM (#6010916)
Nothing "wouldn't exist." They'd just cost X% more or run Y% slower, which at our scale runs to $large-number, and I personally think that's valuable.

I do get your point though, and I do wish sometimes I worked on something that wouldn't exist without me.

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