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Re:I Don’t Care How Well You Code, Understand Your Compensation by nitrogen on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @05:49AM (#12253503)
The measure of "importance" that results in programmers being paid a lot of money is the ability to do something once and have it benefit millions of people.
Re:I Don’t Care How Well You Code, Understand Your Compensation by gaius on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @09:31AM (#12254325)
I don't think that's true because a) lots of people do that kind of work, in the physical world too, such as the guy who paints lines on the roads, and b) you don't do it once, you do it again and again every time a new JS framework comes out...