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Re:Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career by Aurornis on Monday May 11, 2026 @02:35PM (#48098864)
> At the end of the 90th and beginning of the 00th ("dotcom bubble") it was a common saying that if as a programmer, when you are 30 or 40, you don't have a very successful company (and thus basically set for life), you basically failed in life;

This wasn't common anywhere except for maybe the Silicon Valley bubble.

The rest of the US and even the world could see that not having a very successful company of your own is to equal to being a failure.

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Re:Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career by aleph_minus_one on Monday May 11, 2026 @05:54PM (#48101174)
> > At the end of the 90th and beginning of the 00th ("dotcom bubble") it was a common saying that if as a programmer, when you are 30 or 40, you don't have a very successful company (and thus basically set for life), you basically failed in life;

> This wasn't common anywhere except for maybe the Silicon Valley bubble.

This was a very common sentiment even in Germany at this time.

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