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		Ask HN: How to Pick a Specialisation?
		3 points by dizzydiz on April 18, 2022 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 1 comment
		I’m broadly interested in many areas of CS, but not in anything specific. I’d like to do meaningful work. I would like to hear from people who have specialised as to how they chose their field. Does it matter all that much?

eimrine on April 18, 2022 [–]

> I’d like to do meaningful work.

Commercial CS is about stealing somebody's attention to make advertisements being watched and all kinds of dark patterns. Personally I have never seen a programmer (except of some pure scientists) which would not be an asshole just doing everything he's being told, for money, no matter how harmful.

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