I wrote a Hello World program today. No one will ever use it, so must have been a waste of my time. All along I thought I was building experience and learning the language.

You're on the wrong site if you think utility is a factor in choosing a project to work on. The hacker mindset is that a project is worth doing just because it's possible to do it, not necessarily because there's any good reason.

Stacey, we've already had hundreds of people use the site and have received great feedback from many of our users. Sure, it's not something people use every day, but I definitely think it brings some good-hearted humor into people's lives.

Even if it just brings people a few laughs, I'd say that this product has meaning, and that I am proud of it.

If you go on tracing the "meaningful" work you've been doing all this time, you'll probably end up with something leisurely. This is just very close to that, seeming "meaningless".

Let's face it, most of the work we do is an effort to improve and/or increase your leisure time.

Think about it.

And what are you building today? Jesus, what a derisive attitude.