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Re:I no longer build software by notacoward on Monday September 21, 2020 @09:23AM (#24543054)
Aren't most of the examples you list kind of orthogonal to the issue at hand? They seem more related to living in a world where software exists than to actually being the one who builds it.
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Re:I no longer build software by hn_throwaway_99 on Monday September 21, 2020 @09:28AM (#24543107)
I think you may have missed the point that someone had to build all that stuff, and the universe of software in the business world (where people are employed to write software) is large.
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Re:I no longer build software by notacoward on Monday September 21, 2020 @09:38AM (#24543241)
Did I miss the point, or did you? Someone has to clean out the sewers too. Somebody does, and maybe they make good money to make up for the unpleasantness - I certainly hope so - but that doesn't make it a fun job. If software development has become sewer cleaning, isn't that something worth talking about?
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