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Re:Reflections on Stress and Long Hours on Wall Street by bottled_poe on Tuesday June 02, 2015 @04:00AM (#9644524)
> Plus, programmers are extremely productive because of how software scales.

Not sure what you meant by this. Software engineering gets harder as a system scales, not easier.

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Re:Reflections on Stress and Long Hours on Wall Street by ForHackernews on Tuesday June 02, 2015 @11:40AM (#9646560)
But one programmer can write a piece of code that runs on a thousand, or a hundred thousand, or a million servers. Most other workers can't multiply their output that way.
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