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Author, Yegor Bugayenko, is misogynist in worst of it. I listened to him being guest on a podcast, where he told that women brain is unfit to perform logical tasks, like coding or planning, and that women are much more fit at home kitchen than in any office. And I wish I was exaggerating, but one of the hosts was female programmer and he tried to convince her that she's inferior as professional because of her gender.
Author, Yegor Bugayenko, is misogynist in worst of it. I listened to him being guest on a podcast, where he told that women brain is unfit to perform logical tasks, like coding or planning, and that women are much more fit at home kitchen than in any office. And I wish I was exaggerating, but one of the hosts was female programmer and he tried to convince her that she's inferior as professional because of her gender.
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It's unreasonable to expect people to retain knowledge of every little corner of a programming language when there's an easily available reference they could use instead. "How often they need to refer to reference material" is a pretty terrible metric for measuring the abilities of a programmer.
Its not an unreasonable metric, if a round trip through Stack Overflow is in your thought loop then you will be significantly more limited than someone who doesn't need that. If you are doing something very obscure then its reasonable, but most programmers don't do obscure things on a daily basis. Its similar to being unable to do math in your head. You can get away with always using the calculator but you'll be outp…
The author repeatedly cites the availability of cheaper hardware as some sort of savior of modern programming but fails to mention that the volume of data and the real-time demands of modern products were not present for many older systems that ran on more expensive hardware.
"Website obesity" [0] is a phenomenon where this is especially evident.
"Programmers do not need to write much code anymore; all they need to do in most cases is wire together already available components." As a general statement, I feel like this is objectively false. Just look at how much code gets added to Github daily.
If anything, I'd argue the LOC it takes to accomplish many tasks is actually increasing because applications are held to higher standards of quality, scalability, availability, scope, etc.
> Programmers do not need to write much code anymore; all they need to do in most cases is wire together already available components. As if this stops you from re-inventing the wheel in attempt to understand more. Understanding things is what distinguishes programmers. I had exactly the same discussion with one of my friends that wants to become a programmer. His argument was that programming is not fun at all becau…
For example, if you are trying to write "business logic", you don't want to have to worry about allocating memory or ensuring data consistency. You just want to worry about business concerns.
I suspect your friend has simply not tried any sufficiently difficult programming project. If your problem is non-trivial, you feel appropriately grateful for libraries that provide higher layers of abstraction.
"Programmers do not need to write much code anymore; all they need to do in most cases is wire together already available components." As a general statement, I feel like this is objectively false. Just look at how much code gets added to Github daily.
Author, Yegor Bugayenko, is misogynist in worst of it. I listened to him being guest on a podcast, where he told that women brain is unfit to perform logical tasks, like coding or planning, and that women are much more fit at home kitchen than in any office. And I wish I was exaggerating, but one of the hosts was female programmer and he tried to convince her that she's inferior as professional because of her gender.
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Even here in Toronto I know many making that much or far more. Core framework devs make about $500k a year and AI devs with AI PhD's from good schools are in the seven figures per year.
What’s an example of a “core framework dev”?
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Its not an unreasonable metric, if a round trip through Stack Overflow is in your thought loop then you will be significantly more limited than someone who doesn't need that. If you are doing something very obscure then its reasonable, but most programmers don't do obscure things on a daily basis. Its similar to being unable to do math in your head. You can get away with always using the calculator but you'll be outp…
Both will be outperformed by someone with a computer.