Developers are the autoworkers of our generation

Re:Developers are the autoworkers of our generation by samatman on Monday September 02, 2013 @11:39AM (#6315622)

I don't always seize my means of production.

But when I do, I close it, stick it in a case, and put it in my backpack.

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Re:Developers are the autoworkers of our generation by samatman on Monday September 02, 2013 @11:45AM (#6315651)

To follow up with something less pithy and more thoughtful:

I'm from near Detroit. Auto work is a bad comparison, because auto workers need millions of dollars worth of equipment to do their job.

Software developers are more like the film industry. Big operations need millions in equipment etc, but the individual actors, well, they just have to know how to act.

Given that software as a service solves a problem the film industry is still wrestling with, and given that the film industry is still very much solvent at present, I think we're going to be okay.

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Re:Developers are the autoworkers of our generation by smk11 on Monday September 02, 2013 @11:52AM (#6315686)

Plus, anyone can jump into the place of an auto-worker with very minimal training. That will never be the case for programmers.

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Re:Developers are the autoworkers of our generation by eli_gottlieb on Monday September 02, 2013 @01:09PM (#6316020)

I don't always seize my means of production.

Why not?

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Re:Developers are the autoworkers of our generation by samatman on Monday September 02, 2013 @04:34PM (#6317049)

Often, I'm busy typing on it.

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