[jongraehl]

Nice characterizations but the conclusion was only empty "human face" platitudes for me. I'll take the reminder that we should believe in the end result we're accomplishing and not only obsess about making the tools we're working with or system we're working on better as an end in itself.

[MichaelGG]

And it also doesn't seem to recognize that for some (many?) that tech can be an end by itself. If your goal is business or to ship an app, this might not be true. But there should be no shame, no regret, in only being interested in tech for its intrinsic merits, independent of "results".

[TeMPOraL]

Hell, this is the reason a lot of programmers begin programming. Personally, this is the reason I started programming and sadly 90% of jobs that are in the industry feel like utter bullshit to me - I simply can't be passionate about that new sports webapp (I hate sports) or inventory management something something. Especially webdev, of which I did most commercially, feels utterly awful to me. Of course those projects are important to someone, they may be passions of many people - just not of me personally. This creates a lot of tension and unease for me as an employee, especially now that us geek programmers are outnumbered by 'professionals', who came here to do jobs for money.

[0x4a42]

I own you a beer. :)

[brianpan]

Sometimes a story is not the conclusion, but the journey taken to reach the conclusion. :)