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Re:Ask HN: Have you ever thought of leaving programming for ... by Jtsummers on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @08:52AM (#12900195)
Regarding "too late":

You work in a particular field, is it possible to take your knowledge of the "daily grind" to one of the development houses making tools you use? Is there some software that would be particularly useful that doesn't yet exist? Can you write plug-ins for existing tools (and sell them, a friend did that for audio processing software)?

You have domain experience, you don't have to forfeit it if you make the switch to programming.

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Re:Ask HN: Have you ever thought of leaving programming for ... by rationably on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @04:27PM (#12904094)
OK, "too late" sounds maybe a bit too dramatic.

Not really. Our software is essentially a set of quite advance image/data processing pipelines. Companies who produce it are looking for people with (very) advanced math/C skills as it's not as simple as "import cv2".

Thanks for support though.

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