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Re:Thousands of Veterans Want to Learn to Code But Can’t by redthrowaway on Saturday May 06, 2017 @12:47AM (#14278726)
Cookie-cutter is also what 99% of programmers work on. Yes, it's nice that you were on the team at facebook that built the first react prototype, or that you were the first software engineer at oculus. The rest of us are building apps, adding an endpoint to an api, figuring out what the new database schema should look like, etc. And there are a hell of a lot more jobs openings for "blue-collar coders" than there are for geniuses.

I mean, it's great you're working on the latest computer vision algo to make the billboards in Minority Report a reality. I just spent the day wrestling with Google's client API registration and authentication nonsense so I could get per-page bounce rates.

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Re:Thousands of Veterans Want to Learn to Code But Can’t by dba7dba on Saturday May 06, 2017 @01:31AM (#14278856)
I agree. All of us outside of military hear about pilots and Navy SEAL at work most of the time. But 99% of men/women in military work doing none of that stuff. But that 99% are still gainfully employed doing essential work.
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Re:Thousands of Veterans Want to Learn to Code But Can’t by paganel on Saturday May 06, 2017 @01:44AM (#14278887)
Am not military and especially I'm not American, but IMHO wars on the field are not won with Navy SEALs but with logistics and I'd add artillery. Those sound boring compared to any special forces, but they're not, quite the contrary.
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Re:Thousands of Veterans Want to Learn to Code But Can’t by dba7dba on Saturday May 06, 2017 @02:03AM (#14278955)
I was talking about the amount of media attention given to pilots/SEAL/etc. But yes wars are won with artillery. But luckily, we haven't had a war like that in awhile, especially for US.
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