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Re:Spiders Use Earth's Electric Field to Fly Hundreds of Mil... by mellosouls on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @07:21PM (#20407605)
This has also now spread to the world of software development, in the context of large management consultancies selling services to companies that want software without those pesky expensive Devs.

Strangely enough, I have been unable to find their definition for Citizen Management Consultants...

https://www.gartner.com/it-glossary/citizen-developer/

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Re:Spiders Use Earth's Electric Field to Fly Hundreds of Mil... by inflatableDodo on Thursday July 11, 2019 @12:44AM (#20409193)
'Citizen Developer' sounds a bit like a corporate euphemism for a guard job at a gulag for political dissidents.
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Re:Spiders Use Earth's Electric Field to Fly Hundreds of Mil... by devxpy on Thursday July 11, 2019 @03:04AM (#20409654)
How do you define an expensive developer though? I mean in academia you have paperwork to prove it, but what are the criteria for distinct here?
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