We have a WhatsApp group where we share music recommendations with each other. It's grown quite a bit now and it's gotten hard to keep up. Also new members missed everything that came before. So I set out to solve this problem and have some fun last week.
I decided to write a shell script that does the following:
- Parses chat export file and extracts all the Spotify URLs.
- Removes duplicates
- Authenticates w/ Spotify API
- Fetches Ids of tracks already in playlist
- Creates a difference list of missing tracks
- Adds those to the playlist
> "Highly funded companies are expected to produce revenue growth."
Yup, this is exactly what I was hoping wasn't true: That it's impossible to be both well funded, high revenue growth AND do so while tackling a meaningful problem.
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Don't want to make this thread about all the ways in which Tesla is a bad example (just first one that came to mind).
This is exactly what I was hoping this thread would disprove. But so far I think you're probably right. Private interest just doesn't seem to be seriously willing or able to tackle the big issues.
Ah I should have been more specific. For some context, I learned software development on the job and later studied Human-Computer Interaction. I want to be at the intersection of software and design.
Software Engineering at Plenty involved a lot of creative problem solving. But I wanted to work on visually creative projects. Some of my initial projects at Plenty did involve interactive UIs, but as I gained better understanding of our stack, I was required to do a lot more back-end work which wasn’t very exciting to me.
The workplace I am at solves a very prevalent set of problems For retail industry. But there is nothing creative about it. (Of course, there are some creative workarounds but it wouldn’t be characterized as creative work)
