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Re:Mayor Bloomberg Will Learn How To Write Code In 2012 by candre717 on Friday January 06, 2012 @05:29PM (#3435373)
Or, the more people who can code, the less valuable the skill? Meh, or not.
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Re:Mayor Bloomberg Will Learn How To Write Code In 2012 by rsolari on Friday January 06, 2012 @05:47PM (#3435437)
Maybe it's not supply & demand, but a network effect:

For reading, I would argue the ability to read become more valuable as the literacy rate increases, as society starts to run on the written word.

Perhaps computer literacy is the same.

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Re:Mayor Bloomberg Will Learn How To Write Code In 2012 by candre717 on Saturday January 07, 2012 @09:07AM (#3437022)
That's interesting. When would you use a supply & demand model versus network effects to explain a trend?
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Re:Mayor Bloomberg Will Learn How To Write Code In 2012 by jarin on Friday January 06, 2012 @08:11PM (#3435790)
The more people who can code, the more demand there will be for advanced training from experienced coders. The hackers of today will be the teachers of tomorrow :)
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