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Re:Law school applicants surge 13%, biggest increase since d... by ethbr0 on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @05:02AM (#28058812)
Software developers make the world a better place.

Unfortunately, most of they ways in which they do so were already done in the 70s. It's just repeating that work in more modern languages / stacks.

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Re:Law school applicants surge 13%, biggest increase since d... by bart_spoon on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @08:12AM (#28060047)
Some software developers make the world a better place. Many produce software that ultimately not that useful, and in the worst case scenario, actively harmful to society. Is the world a better place because of Apple, Amazon, or Google? Eh, you can make an argument either way. Is it a better place because of Facebook or Twitter? Unambiguously no.
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Re:Law school applicants surge 13%, biggest increase since d... by HPsquared on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @06:20AM (#28140239)
That may be true, but the same could also be said about plumbing.
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