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Is Programming Getting Less Popular?

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Post by irishman_irl » Tue, May 11, 2010, 2:15 PM UTC

Is Programming Getting Less Popular?
google.com

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#2

Post by whakojacko » Tue, May 11, 2010, 2:44 PM UTC

Those numbers are relative. I think its more that non-programming queries have grown faster than programming queries.

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, May 11, 2010, 2:50 PM UTC

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Post by wdewind » Tue, May 11, 2010, 2:54 PM UTC

whakojacko wrote: post #2

Those numbers are relative. I think its more that non-programming queries have grown faster than programming queries.

Which is compounded by the fact that programmers are the early adopters of the internet, google etc.

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Post by copperred » Tue, May 11, 2010, 2:55 PM UTC

I find it interesting that 5 of the 6 headlines annotated on the graph are for the wrong topic.

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#6

Post by edw519 » Tue, May 11, 2010, 2:58 PM UTC

Is Programming Getting Less Popular?

Only among the posers.

They're the ones who jump into the latest/coolest/most promising thing and bail when they realize how much work it really is.

Those of us who were here before them and will be here long after they're gone say "71 79 79 68 32 82 73 68 68 65 78 67 69".

[EDIT: Added the 32. tome wins]

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Post by myth_drannon » Tue, May 11, 2010, 2:59 PM UTC

You should use Google Insight and not Google Trends, then you can choose categories related to computers only so you don't get useless queries like related to Java island

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Post by tome » Tue, May 11, 2010, 3:03 PM UTC

edw519 wrote: post #6

Is Programming Getting Less Popular? Only among the posers. They're the ones who jump into the latest/coolest/most promising thing and bail when they realize how much work it really is. Those of us who were here before them and will be here long after they're gone say "71 79 79 68 32 82 73 68 68 65 78 67 69". [EDIT: Added the 32. tome wins]

You missed a 32

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Post by j_baker » Tue, May 11, 2010, 3:03 PM UTC

Maybe. But the only thing we can infer from that is that fewer people are searching for specific programming technologies. Maybe you can infer that those products are becoming less popular. But I don't think that's enough to infer that about programming in general.

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Post by callahad » Tue, May 11, 2010, 3:07 PM UTC

edw519 wrote: post #6

Is Programming Getting Less Popular? Only among the posers. They're the ones who jump into the latest/coolest/most promising thing and bail when they realize how much work it really is. Those of us who were here before them and will be here long after they're gone say "71 79 79 68 32 82 73 68 68 65 78 67 69". [EDIT: Added the 32. tome wins]

To save everyone the trouble:

  $ python -c 'print("".join(chr(int(x)) for x in "71 79 79 68 32 82 73 68 68 65 78 67 69".split()))'
  GOOD RIDDANCE

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