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Re:Is developer compensation becoming bimodal? by mafribe on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @07:00AM (#12588617)
Interesting theory.

I have a different one, derived from teaching 1000s of students over 2 decades. the bimodal distributions comes from two sets of people: one set working hard and putting the hours in until the master the subject, the other set being lazy, cheating, and don't put the hours in, so they never achieve mastery. Appearance and substance.

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Re:Is developer compensation becoming bimodal? by kgwgk on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @07:23AM (#12588713)
How is it different?
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Re:Is developer compensation becoming bimodal? by meric on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @09:38AM (#12589466)
"The ten-thousand thing-kinds are ultimately alike and ultimately different. This is called the great similarity-difference." - Zhuangzi
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Re:Is developer compensation becoming bimodal? by Bartweiss on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @09:52AM (#12589568)
In meric's model, the student who get good grades aren't the same ones achieving mastery. In mafribe's, they are.
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Re:Is developer compensation becoming bimodal? by meric on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @09:56AM (#12589589)
I must insist although "achieving mastery" is clearer than "knowing the content", I meant the same. It would probably help if I wrap "knowing" in asterisks like "knowing the content".
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