Programmers becoming "starving artists"
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#2depressing =(
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#3"Now computer literacy is widespread enough, and basic programming tools have gotten easy enough to use, that the ability "to write a program" is no longer in short supply, and with the Internet at our fingertips we all have the combined output of the whole world's supply of programming talent available to us, not just programmers in our own city, state or country."
Methinks that the author doesn't understand the difference between data and information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data#Meaning_of_data.2C_informa...
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#4If programmers are in short supply become one and make tons of money. If they are over-supplied become an entrepreneur, hire lots of cheap programmers and change the world.
Think positively.
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#5If programmers are in short supply become one and make tons of money. If they are over-supplied become an entrepreneur, hire lots of cheap programmers and change the world. Think positively.
Good thinking.
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#6People whom are not creative and can't adapt to change will get left behind as change happens. The rest will be fine. You only have to be able to run faster than X% of the competition, and most of those people you are outrunning hate what they are doing anyways.
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#7I work with open source technology in my job all the time, and I don't think there's any danger of someone freely implementing the custom systems we need to support our clients' needs. Just because everyone knows how a wrench works doesn't mean my mechanic is fixing my car for free.
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#8As long as computer programming courses in school are as inadequate as they currently are in most of the world, many people with aptitude will not be exposed to it in a compelling fashion and thus most will not choose it as a career. If that is the case, demand for professionally developed software will likely outstrip supply for the foreseeable future.
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#9Programmers regularly create jobs for themselves everytime they write code because the code they write create bugs.
If they write practically 100% bug-free code, it is probably because the program is small or they did it so slow and methodical. Which mean, a whole bunch of other stuff not getting coded.
Trust me, there's enough programming jobs for everyone for the forseeable future.
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#10One fundamentally wrong thing he says is that programmers don't want competition.
This just isn't true. Competition is often good for the companies, not just the customers. Competition makes you innovative, and competition is often a great way to do R&D without spending money.