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Re:You Are Not Google (2017) by rswail on Friday April 05, 2019 @01:30AM (#19579970)
From an engineering/development sense, this is a good thing, because it means that devs are cheaper. Most devs can't even handle being a good client of things like databases. They barely comprehend what the underlying theories are behind SQL (eg sets etc).

Just like early electricity, people ran their own generators. That got outsourced, so the standard "sparky" wouldn't have the faintest idea of the requirements of the generation side, only the demand side.

The same is happening to programming.

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Re:You Are Not Google (2017) by mcguire on Friday April 05, 2019 @11:03AM (#19583221)
1. Programmers are supposed to be professionals. They certainly want to be paid like professionals.

2. The effects of the back end have a nasty habit of poking through in a way that the differences between windmill generators and pumped hydraulic storage don't.

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Re:You Are Not Google (2017) by Jedi72 on Friday April 05, 2019 @06:18AM (#19581182)
The difference is that in the case of programming, for the cost of some side-study you can get yourself a competitive advantage.
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