Product Manager – Backgammon, Company unspecified, Gibraltar
The world’s leading online gaming company, requires an innovative Product Manager to own, develop and manage the company’s suite of Backgammon products. This dynamic role will see you developing and owning the product roadmap for Backgammon, generating new product ideas and driving successful product rollouts.
I believe it is a shame when some of the top intellectual minds of our times devote their 12 hours work days to algorithmic trading, on-line gambling, “casual” gaming, search engine optimization , on-line porn, search diversion through “Freeware\Malware” and so on.
Of course, these ultra smart developers are not using these services (at least not all of them:) ). They are the brains that run the software and algorithms to operate the questionable services.
I’m not passing judgment on the need for the services , although I’m quite sure Algo Trading has no economical benefit to the world 
. I do think that being a “Product manager for backgammon” is less important and satisfactory than “Product manager for diabetes cure” .
I see too many brilliant friends who want to make easy money by finding a loop-hole in the global financial system. While I can’t commit that I would never work in such company, I prefer not to do it, as long as I can.
Interestingly enough, these services are somewhat related. For example, a lot of the real good money in SEO is from references to gambling and porn sites . Forex trading is not really different from a legal(?) form of gambling and “casual gaming” ,IMO, is quite the same.
It just seems that developing the Google search engine is more productive than algorithms that create fake content that only seems real to Google, but no real person would ever want to read.
Our civilization moves forward from innovation like Bioinformatics and Wikipedia, even Facebook and Twitter. But it seems that we can leave SEO to the average developers….
August 13, 2012 at 1:19 am |
Of course, some of these sites (e.g., EveKnows), actually develop and implement novel information retrieval techniques.
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