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Re:I Don’t Care How Well You Code, Understand Your Compensation by amelius on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @06:37AM (#12253658)
> If it were about intelligence, most physicists I know are underpaid and programmers are generally compensated fairly.

Most physicists I know are searching for stuff that already exists, whereas most programmers I know are actually building new stuff.

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Re:I Don’t Care How Well You Code, Understand Your Compensation by ethanbond on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @07:55AM (#12253908)
New stuff = this week's rip of another game, Snapchat feature, or productivity app. Yippee.
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Re:I Don’t Care How Well You Code, Understand Your Compensation by yomritoyj on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @06:42AM (#12253674)
All programs also exist, in the sense you can program a computer to generate one by one all possible valid x86 instruction sequences. What programmers are doing is searching for one program among them that will solve their problem.
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