What it means to be a developer is changing

Re:What it means to be a developer is changing by FlyingSnake on Saturday August 22, 2020 @03:02AM (#24242295)

This is such an incoherent rant about a tiny fraction of history of software industry. Being a developer was always being in a constant flux. The punch card developers were a different breed from the mainframe programmers (mostly women BTW). The age of minicomputers, DOS/Amiga revolution etc were uniquely different from it’s preceding conventions. It goes on and will continue it’s flux.

If the author had peered past the software industry prior to the advent of HN/reddit, it would’ve been clear to them.

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Re:What it means to be a developer is changing by mastazi on Saturday August 22, 2020 @03:46AM (#24242464)

I agree, as a non-SV-based dev, it seems to me that the author can’t see past their own bubble

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Re:What it means to be a developer is changing by catsarebetter on Saturday August 22, 2020 @05:36AM (#24242950)

I used to be an SF dev and honestly, the bubble is almost impossible to see past. I can't even describe it, like a combination of hyper-competitiveness and forced social norms in tech that make you blind to anything but the way that we do it in SF. There's like an attitude of "we have it better than anyone else" in a lot of people I meet.

Sometimes I like to mess around and tell them about programming consultants that chill out in Utah and make 500k/yr working maybe half the year (we're really insecure about salary up here) and see an existential crisis fly cross my friend's faces, it's priceless.

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