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Re:Masahiro Kikuno, Japanese Independent Watchmaker by babyrainbow on Thursday June 22, 2017 @04:50AM (#14610920)
I think the idea is that the key to being regarded honorably is to be really good at what you claim you do. And a life time is only long enough to master, i mean, really master, a single thing.

I think it must be a totally alien, or even irritating, idea to a bunch who expects to paid enormous sum of money because they have done a crash course in JavaScript spanning a month and claims to be able to build websites that can "deliver value" to the business..

That is considering they can even grasp the idea of things like "honor", which itself is a rather unpopular idea because it often gets in the way of making money....

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Re:Masahiro Kikuno, Japanese Independent Watchmaker by FLUX-YOU on Thursday June 22, 2017 @11:30AM (#14612920)
>I think it must be a totally alien, or even irritating, idea to a bunch who expects to paid enormous sum of money because they have done a crash course in JavaScript spanning a month and claims to be able to build websites that can "deliver value" to the business..

What's funny is that some of them are actually being paid enormous sums of money for very little skill investment.

So in light of that, programming is apparently not a field that expects you to master anything before your salary is maximized.

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Re:Masahiro Kikuno, Japanese Independent Watchmaker by geodel on Thursday June 22, 2017 @09:19AM (#14611997)
Excellent comment. I feel this while taking a mind numbing course on "Spring Cloud". Everything about it drips of mediocrity, but I can add "Expert in Spring Cloud' to CV and get hired by company who wouldn't care a bit about carefully written software.
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