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Re:Coding without Google by GFK_of_xmaspast on Friday May 27, 2016 @11:46AM (#11786754)
> Or the way I look at it, it was once nerds' playground, and those nerds are now an unwanted minority of the growing software field.

I assume you have to be talking about some very specific subfield, because the practice of 'writing software in exchange for money' is over half a century old.

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Re:Coding without Google by TeMPOraL on Friday May 27, 2016 @11:55AM (#11786843)
It seems to me that people doing software for money back then were "different breed" than those coming to the field today, now that software is suddenly hot and an easy career choice.
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Re:Coding without Google by GFK_of_xmaspast on Saturday May 28, 2016 @11:34AM (#11792009)
Software has had plenty of "hot" years tho and I'm not sure I can remember when it wasn't an easy career choice except maybe in the depths of some of the busts.
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