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Re:Exapunks by selestify on Monday August 13, 2018 @04:54AM (#17748813)
> Real on-the-job programming these days is mostly gluing

My God, are we working the same job? Have you ever found a job that was not just gluing things together?

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Re:Exapunks by imranq on Monday August 13, 2018 @09:29AM (#17749889)
Real programming jobs exist and pay a lot. You have to be extremely good though - more like a mathematician or a CS researcher. Some examples: C++ Latency programmer for HFT funds, Staff Research Engineer at Google, AI Research at DeepMind/OpenAI
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Re:Exapunks by TeMPOraL on Monday August 13, 2018 @05:32AM (#17748963)
Not yet. I hear that these jobs exist, but I seem to be consistently unable to find them.
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Re:Exapunks by smolder on Monday August 13, 2018 @08:34AM (#17749547)
Companies with the interesting jobs are not as profitable as those with glue-things-together jobs, and aren't hiring. In fact, I hear they're looking to get out of that business entirely. It'll soon be glue, all the way down, with university partnerships so kids can pay tuition to invent new stuff before they graduate to glue land.
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